Breast Most cancers goes from 0-150mph in below 9 seconds

‘Don’t Watch for the Inexperienced Gentle’ is Andy’s typically humorous however extremely emotional new guide about her battle to get again on the race monitor.

Perth, Western Australia, July 2020: Andy Kahle turned her weblog – written to maintain her household updated whereas she was present process most cancers therapy – into her new guide, “Don’t Watch for the Inexperienced Gentle”. As a substitute of being your normal Breast Most cancers survival story, this guide is a set of emotional and sometimes humorous conditions that Andy discovered herself in whereas she put her motor racing on maintain to battle a illness that impacts 1 in 8 girls.

“Everybody wants one thing to encourage them to maintain combating, and mine was the information that I’d get again in my race automobile. ”

Whereas superstition says that again luck is available in 3’s, Andy didn’t enable this to sway her “want” to race down the quarter mile in Australia’s first compact automobile – the Holden Torana. First she blew up the transmission the day earlier than she was alleged to get her racing license, then her husband – Mick – slipped within the bathe and impaled himself on the faucet, that exact same night. And in the event you’re ready for the opposite shoe to drop … simply because the racing season was coming to an in depth, and hubby was on the mend, Andy was recognized with a really aggressive type of breast most cancers, forcing her dream on maintain.

There’s a saying in drag racing, that in the event you wait till you see the inexperienced mild earlier than you allow the beginning line, you’ll miss out. So is the case in actual life. Typically it’s higher to place your foot flat to the ground and speed up to the place you need to be. Whereas Andy’s guide “Don’t Watch for the Inexperienced Gentle” begins with the uncertainty of a life altering analysis, Andy takes this as a possibility to take a look at every little thing together with her trademark wry humour. Conditions such because the temper lighting and 70s type apparel whereas getting a mammogram, or the nervous foot jiggling, plastic chair wobbling of her husband whereas she learn outdated magazines within the docs ready room, Andy has managed to take care of the gravity of her journey whereas nonetheless demonstrating the significance of having fun with each second and focussing on her final objective of racing once more.

Out there in paperback or e-book, through Amazon, Andy has additionally supplied the choice to buy a signed copy of “Don’t Watch for the Inexperienced Gentle” direct from her charity race automobile web site – Remedy on Wheels. (www.TherapyonWheels.asn.au)

Regardless of being informed she had a excessive threat of recurrence, on the age of 51 Andy Kahle has now been most cancers free for over 10 years. Andy has additionally continued to race for the reason that completion of her most cancers therapy and now has a brand new race automobile on the way in which. This one has been customized constructed to permit Andy and her staff to boost funds and consciousness for the battle in opposition to breast most cancers by providing passenger rides down the drag strip … however that’s a complete different story.