Movember 2021: prostate cancer survivors on overcoming the disease with the love of their wives and how life isn’t all about work
- Chui Kui-fan and Donald Mok open up on how their prostate cancer diagnoses bought them closer with their wives, whose support proved invaluable
- They were part of a joint Movember and Hong Kong Cancer Fund event for couples to celebrate their love for each other
There is a saying that a man has two lives, and the second one starts when he realises he only has one. This is particularly appropriate for men dealing with prostate cancer.
With the month-long Movember campaign under way, couples who battled prostate cancer together dressed in colourful traditional wedding robes and gathered at the Hong Kong Cancer Fund’s (HKCF) North Point office to celebrate their love for each other.
Two prostate cancer survivors described how the illness affected their relationships with their wives and families.
Chui Kui-fan, 71, and his wife Chui Lui Ling, 68, donned traditional red wedding gowns that day for the first time – despite having been married for 42 years. The pair came to Hong Kong in 1988, but got married in Guangzhou in 1979, where they could not wear bright festive robes for the ceremony.
“It’s like proposing for the first time again. It’s like being just married,” Chui Kui-fan says. “I feel even happier now than when we got married more than 40 years ago, because when we first got married it was just after the Cultural Revolution so we could not wear any costumes like this.
