{"id":211151,"date":"2025-12-02T09:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T09:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/211151\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T09:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T09:46:12","slug":"when-i-heard-the-words-pancreatic-cancer-i-thought-game-over-but-this-year-i-walked-the-camino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/211151\/","title":{"rendered":"When I heard the words pancreatic cancer, I thought \u2018game over\u2019 \u2013 but this year I walked the Camino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nPamela Deasy (53) from Union Hall in West Cork on her big journey after surgery and chemo\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pamela Deasy spent 38 days walking the Camino in France and Spain this year. Photo: Daragh Mc Sweeney\/Provision\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IF DEASY063.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Pamela Deasy spent 38 days walking the Camino in France and Spain this year. Photo: Daragh Mc Sweeney\/Provision<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There are times in life when the most important thing to do is switch off from everything and walk away. And in May of this year I did just that and headed off on the Camino for 38 days straight. I walked from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port in France over to Santiago in northern Spain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It was exactly what I needed after several physically and emotionally testing years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pamela Deasy (53) from Union Hall in West Cork on her big journey after surgery and chemo Pamela&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,2119,11,12,21535,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-211151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-kirsty-blake-knox","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-living-with-cancer","17":"tag-main-news","18":"tag-mainnews","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-topstories","22":"tag-world","23":"tag-world-news","24":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115649340114502064","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}