Aug 15, 2017, 01:38 AM
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August 14: Stefan Karl Stefansson took to his GoFundMe page to clear up a few things about his situation. He wrote that right now he is free of cancer metastases, or cancer that spreads to different parts of the body from where it started. He’s even planning to go back on stage.
He refused any further adjuvant therapy including chemotherapy because there is a less than three percent chance of it making any difference and may just make him more sick. If a metastasis comes back, they will try surgery or nothing at all. He promised to keep everyone posted and told his fans to cross their fingers and keep thinking of him.
Quote:…I’m here for you just like you are there for me. By standing together we stand stronger, as you have proved so often with your amazing letters, GoFundMe support and prayers. Me and my family are so thankful to you all, and we always will be.
Stefansson told RUV, the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service, that he is free from Cholangiocarcinoma (bile-duct cancer) for now after undergoing two surgeries.
Quote:The damn disease is gone. Until it comes back, whenever that will be, which will hopefully be never. Life is now. It’s almost a miracle that I’m still here.
He told RUV that he is one in 100,000 to get his type of cancer. “Of course I get it,” Stefansson told RUV. “I’m one of a kind.”
Having cancer made Stefansson rethink his life and priorities, with him vowing to not take part in discussions on politics and negative topics which has previously taken up a lot of his time, he said in the interview. He is concerned about political discourse on the internet.
Quote:We are hanging around on Facebook and reading each others’ feeds. We are ‘stalkers,’ we are ‘stalking’ each others’ lives all day long and criticizing them. It’s kind of like standing by your window: ‘Look how he’s painting his house, he’s painting it green, I’d never paint my house green.’
Many people have asked him if death worries him, but he told RUV that death is an incredibly insignificant thing when life is so interesting and magnificent.
Quote:Let’s not cry and think ‘Woulda, coulda, shoulda,’ let’s stop looking in the rear-view mirror and look ahead onto the road because that heals all wounds. When I woke up after my first surgery, which is one of the most serious and dangerous surgeries they do on the human body, the nurses looked at me and said ‘Now you will have to go and heal yourself Stefán.’ That is one of the most profound things I have learned in my life.
Stefansson is currently writing a stand-up comedy routine about cancer with stand-up comedian Ari Eldjarn, Stefansson said in the interview. Stefansson said that it’s important to be able to laugh at the illness, saying that while laughter doesn’t necessarily prolong your life but can make it easier.
He bikes 20 km a day.
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