Shadow of a Survivor: A Life Defined by Hope

John Walker Pattison’s extraordinary journey from an eighteen-year-old cancer patient to a senior cancer nurse, author and survivor is a story of resilience, compassion, music and hope. There are some lives that seem almost impossible to believe. 

Lives that contain so many twists, challenges and remarkable moments that they could have been lifted from the pages of a novel. John Walker Pattison’s is one of those lives. A retired Senior Cancer Nurse Consultant and author, John has spent more than five decades living with a story that began with a devastating diagnosis. At just 18 years old, he was diagnosed with stage IV lymphoma and told that he would not survive.

More than fifty-one years later, John is still here.