Earlier this yr, Johannesburg-based radio station HOT 102.7FM confirmed that South African ‘radio legend’ Darren Scott can be returning to host its afternoon drive present. 

The Just Plain Drive Show noticed a return to South African radio for Scott, who had beforehand been within the United States for the 18 months prior. 

Scott is a family title in South African radio and tv, having been within the enterprise for 40 years, together with stints with the likes of Capital Radio, 5FM, 702, East Coast Radio, OFM, and Jacaranda FM.

He additionally loved a profitable TV profession, largely with MultiChoice’s SuperSport, the place he fronted the hugely-popular ‘Boots & All’ rugby present for a few years.

So what occurred to Darren Scott?

In a revealing put up shared to Facebook, Scott defined how he has been dwelling with a life-threatening pores and skin most cancers, melanoma, for the previous 38 years.

Sharing an in depth account of his journey, he posted an virtually unrecognisable photograph alongside a newer image of him in hospital.

“The one on the left is me just over a year ago. My weight had dropped to 78kg and I felt like I was close to death,” he posted.

“The pic on the right is me in hospital this past weekend … finally getting a problem fixed after a rollercoaster year.”

When sharing extra particulars, he defined that the primary melanoma had been identified way back to 1986 … “as a result of many hours on a cricket field without adequate protection”.

“Since 1986 my body has been like a ‘pinball machine’ when it comes to this disease,” he shared. “Discounting the numerous very early stage melanomas (malignant moles in simplistic terms), which have been removed without any follow up treatment necessary, I’ve had five more serious ones … that is, at a more advanced stage.”

Scott goes on to depict an agonising journey combating not solely the illness, however some hostile reactions to tried therapies, considered one of which he suggests “made my own immune system turn on me! It hit me like a series of Mike Tyson blows to my gastro-intestinal region ….” he wrote.

“I plummeted 15kg in two weeks and after being discharged from hospital with hordes of cortisone and an array of different medicine, I spent the subsequent few weeks, which turned months, utterly drained and battling to get better.

“That got here with far too common bouts of dizziness, blackouts and a whole lack of vitality as I battled to take care of my weight above 80kg (regular for me being round 90-95kg).

“This ‘attack’ on my system started in July of last year …. and I only started to feel somewhat human again by November!”

After one other latest well being setback that led to his “body shutting down” two months in the past, and which left him largely incapacitated, Scott wanted to have his gall bladder eliminated.

“I finally feel human again after more than a year …. albeit less one gall bladder to go with missing lymph glands, a part of my lung and a section of my chin … and a whole new diet!” he described.

“The good news is … I’m back at that place where all I’m fighting now is my weight … that’s to try and keep it down, as opposed to trying to keep it up!”

You can learn the complete put up from Darren Scott here

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