My NBC video arrived today YIPPEE, ITS GOOD I THINK, interested in your comments

pete43lost_at_sea
pete43lost_at_sea Member Posts: 3,900 Member
edited March 2014 in Colorectal Cancer #1
I would be interested in your feedback. I hope you like it.
This is kind of the serious version of the movie Kerry is
proposing.

This is the best video on the net of my story.
I just got a survival story final edit from NBC.
It about 10 minutes, have a look if your interested.
I think it touches on many quest themes
I am blessed its been so well made and its real life.
The link is here https://player.vimeo.com/video/18463353

If you watch it you can meet my wife and kids and see where we live
by the bay in Sydney.

My fame was so fleeting, I blinked and it was gone.

Love and hope to us all,

From Pete and family

PS search on peter trayhurn nbc for the broadcast version
or peter trayhurn stateline for my aussie favourite

Comments

  • PamPam2
    PamPam2 Member Posts: 370 Member
    Great
    Thanks Pete
    Very well done, and very inspiring. Thanks you for sharing. You are like the cat with 9 lives.
    Pam
  • lisa42
    lisa42 Member Posts: 3,625 Member
    Absolutely incredible!
    Wow, Pete- your story is incredible- very moving and emotional. I truly enjoyed watching it and am glad to have some insight into your life and experience.
    This definitely should be shared- everyone... type in the http address Pete gives above and watch his video clip- incredible!

    Thanks for sharing & onward and forward you go in this life that is still full of hope!

    Lisa :)
  • AnneCan
    AnneCan Member Posts: 3,673 Member
    WOW!
    Pete,

    This video and your story are unbelievable. You have a wonderful on-camera presence. I think a movie could be made out of it. Your family is beautiful + gives so much to fight for both at sea + on land. Did you dive professionally, as a photographer? I cannot believe the camera turned up after all that time. Thanks so much for sharing this with us.
  • Kerry S
    Kerry S Member Posts: 606 Member
    My friend I am on slow speed dial up
    Pete

    My friend I am on slow speed dial up. 26k is the best I can get. I sent the address to my son. He will burn me a DVD of it. It will take some time, but I will get it.

    Kerry
  • herdizziness
    herdizziness Member Posts: 3,624 Member
    Wow
    Sweet video!!! Glad you made it available for us to watch. I really enjoyed watching it, and "meeting" your wife and children.
    Winter Marie
  • pepebcn
    pepebcn Member Posts: 6,331 Member

    Wow
    Sweet video!!! Glad you made it available for us to watch. I really enjoyed watching it, and "meeting" your wife and children.
    Winter Marie

    Awesome ! what a touching story and video,
    thank you for share it with us ! By the way you are much more nice looking man at the video than in pics! hahahahaha!
    Hugs!
  • pete43lost_at_sea
    pete43lost_at_sea Member Posts: 3,900 Member
    Thanks for watching, the positive feedback an nbc thankyou email
    Strange you have to get cancer to be a TV star!!!!!!!!!!!!! HA HA HA
    Please

    Sent this big email thanking Marcus who shot and made the movie for me at NBC commission ...

    EMAIL BELOW, the thoughts and feelings are relevant to us all, so I figred I would sre them.

    My desire to save lives being taken by colorectal cancer has intensified and been focused by the media attention. My family were amazed by all the media fuss as we did not push this story initially. We did not even have a TV for 8 months, which was relaxing.

    I can only express my sincere gratitude to Marcus and NBC for your patience and support while shooting the our story.
    We loved footage that went to air on nbc today and please make sure ann currie gets our sincerest thanks.

    I never dreamed my story could be told so well in the long from. Its only due to Marcus’s efforts of running all over to capture the footage of my family and captain peter.
    None of the other programs had my wife in them and she was searching the beach for us, she deserves so much credit.

    The message of getting checked for bowel cancer is so subtle that I think it will be more effective. Its an approach Marcus and I discussed in letting the story sell the message. The long from edit is an amazing job Marcus.
    I pray your passion and skills are rewarded, they are certainly appreciated by my family and friends.
    I will promote my story using your amazing video everywhere and I know it will save lives. I hope it would be possible to have a link to the long form from the NBC site in case viewers wanted a more personal perspective. I know this is a big favour to ask, but I am asking.
    It would mean so much to us and I think may save a few lives as well.

    The quality of the long from edit is exceptional, and the time you have devoted is sincerely appreciated by myself and my family and the extended family in bowel cancer Australia.

    Marcus you are great representative for NBC.
    We were fortunate that CBS cancelled.
    We were fortunate Sharon Oneill from ABC Stateline did a lovely piece.
    Most of all NBC made a commitment to our story and flew Geoff to Sydney. It was great to meet up with him again.

    I don’t won’t to be premature and sound falsely positive, I have a long road to recovery ahead with unknown road bumps. I was in ER the week before Xmas being bought back from the brink, lost 7kg in 5 days. Beat that for weight loss.

    I view airing this story as being enormously positive in my recovery. Its been good for my soul and my spirit and has me focused on helping others, and not dwelling on my personal challenges. This cancer is so easily beatable if detected early.

    Its a rare privilege in life to deliver a message from your heart that strangley encapsulated in the adventures life puts in our way.

    We did not invite the media frenzy, but did welcome and appreciate it and enjoy it and to some extent were overwhelmed by it. The first newspaper story was based on a letter written by Steve who found the camera and the snowball kept on rolling.
    I am not sure where it will stop.

    My life has been shaped by being abandoned at 2 months and being fostered by the Trayhurn’s who fought to keep me and I was legally adopted on my 18th birthday.
    I found me decreased foster father Keith when I was 14. That was 30 years ago, he was a digger WW2, he lost a leg, a prisoner of war in Changi . My early was full of his stories of mateship and survival. The Japanese put all the Aussie POWs in a warehouse on a jetty which the Yanks bombed it at the beginning of the war.
    My mum Eileen died on 5th July of a sudden stroke when i was 24 before I graduated in computing science which the same birthday of my wife Ellie. My life is full of strange co-incidences.
    My wife and I have made a small fortune in IT and PROPERTY. I am grateful I stopped being greedy and really started living a passionate life 10 years ago. I would hate to battle cancer feeling I had not lived already.
    Besides saving lives mine included my other personal dream is to be the BBC wildlife photographer of the year. I am still shooting and travelling around chemo dates and dreaming of capturing our planet wild beauty.

    I am trying every conceivable conventional and alternative treatment to win my life back. I have 15 doctors, nurses, therapists etc etc helping me. I am truly blessed.
    I pray and hope I do win my race. The fact that some of the highlights of my life have been well told on in the media gives me the greatest peace. You would have to be in my shoes to fell this.

    I hope you all live well, enjoy good health and an abundance of passion and love. Also make some time and get tested for Bowel Cancer. Its ok if you don’t, but at least I passed on my personal plea directly.
    My newest micro campaign is to tell one stranger each day to get checked and have a colonoscopy. I have so many amazing and tragic stories I could tell you already, but not in this email, whose purpose was to say thanks to Marcus.

    Sincerest thanks and best wishes to you all,

    Peter Trayhurn
  • pepebcn
    pepebcn Member Posts: 6,331 Member

    Thanks for watching, the positive feedback an nbc thankyou email
    Strange you have to get cancer to be a TV star!!!!!!!!!!!!! HA HA HA
    Please

    Sent this big email thanking Marcus who shot and made the movie for me at NBC commission ...

    EMAIL BELOW, the thoughts and feelings are relevant to us all, so I figred I would sre them.

    My desire to save lives being taken by colorectal cancer has intensified and been focused by the media attention. My family were amazed by all the media fuss as we did not push this story initially. We did not even have a TV for 8 months, which was relaxing.

    I can only express my sincere gratitude to Marcus and NBC for your patience and support while shooting the our story.
    We loved footage that went to air on nbc today and please make sure ann currie gets our sincerest thanks.

    I never dreamed my story could be told so well in the long from. Its only due to Marcus’s efforts of running all over to capture the footage of my family and captain peter.
    None of the other programs had my wife in them and she was searching the beach for us, she deserves so much credit.

    The message of getting checked for bowel cancer is so subtle that I think it will be more effective. Its an approach Marcus and I discussed in letting the story sell the message. The long from edit is an amazing job Marcus.
    I pray your passion and skills are rewarded, they are certainly appreciated by my family and friends.
    I will promote my story using your amazing video everywhere and I know it will save lives. I hope it would be possible to have a link to the long form from the NBC site in case viewers wanted a more personal perspective. I know this is a big favour to ask, but I am asking.
    It would mean so much to us and I think may save a few lives as well.

    The quality of the long from edit is exceptional, and the time you have devoted is sincerely appreciated by myself and my family and the extended family in bowel cancer Australia.

    Marcus you are great representative for NBC.
    We were fortunate that CBS cancelled.
    We were fortunate Sharon Oneill from ABC Stateline did a lovely piece.
    Most of all NBC made a commitment to our story and flew Geoff to Sydney. It was great to meet up with him again.

    I don’t won’t to be premature and sound falsely positive, I have a long road to recovery ahead with unknown road bumps. I was in ER the week before Xmas being bought back from the brink, lost 7kg in 5 days. Beat that for weight loss.

    I view airing this story as being enormously positive in my recovery. Its been good for my soul and my spirit and has me focused on helping others, and not dwelling on my personal challenges. This cancer is so easily beatable if detected early.

    Its a rare privilege in life to deliver a message from your heart that strangley encapsulated in the adventures life puts in our way.

    We did not invite the media frenzy, but did welcome and appreciate it and enjoy it and to some extent were overwhelmed by it. The first newspaper story was based on a letter written by Steve who found the camera and the snowball kept on rolling.
    I am not sure where it will stop.

    My life has been shaped by being abandoned at 2 months and being fostered by the Trayhurn’s who fought to keep me and I was legally adopted on my 18th birthday.
    I found me decreased foster father Keith when I was 14. That was 30 years ago, he was a digger WW2, he lost a leg, a prisoner of war in Changi . My early was full of his stories of mateship and survival. The Japanese put all the Aussie POWs in a warehouse on a jetty which the Yanks bombed it at the beginning of the war.
    My mum Eileen died on 5th July of a sudden stroke when i was 24 before I graduated in computing science which the same birthday of my wife Ellie. My life is full of strange co-incidences.
    My wife and I have made a small fortune in IT and PROPERTY. I am grateful I stopped being greedy and really started living a passionate life 10 years ago. I would hate to battle cancer feeling I had not lived already.
    Besides saving lives mine included my other personal dream is to be the BBC wildlife photographer of the year. I am still shooting and travelling around chemo dates and dreaming of capturing our planet wild beauty.

    I am trying every conceivable conventional and alternative treatment to win my life back. I have 15 doctors, nurses, therapists etc etc helping me. I am truly blessed.
    I pray and hope I do win my race. The fact that some of the highlights of my life have been well told on in the media gives me the greatest peace. You would have to be in my shoes to fell this.

    I hope you all live well, enjoy good health and an abundance of passion and love. Also make some time and get tested for Bowel Cancer. Its ok if you don’t, but at least I passed on my personal plea directly.
    My newest micro campaign is to tell one stranger each day to get checked and have a colonoscopy. I have so many amazing and tragic stories I could tell you already, but not in this email, whose purpose was to say thanks to Marcus.

    Sincerest thanks and best wishes to you all,

    Peter Trayhurn

    Wow what an story what a life ,certainly can be the
    script for a wonderful movie , stay like this Pete I'm sure you are going to help many people along the rest of your long long life!
    Hugs my brother!
  • Jaylo969
    Jaylo969 Member Posts: 824 Member
    Thank you
    for sharing this with us. This was wonderful, Pete. I really enjoyed!

    Best Wishes always,
    -Pat
  • msccolon
    msccolon Member Posts: 1,917 Member
    AWESOME!
    Thanks for the link! This is truly an amazing story!
    mary
  • idlehunters
    idlehunters Member Posts: 1,787 Member
    msccolon said:

    AWESOME!
    Thanks for the link! This is truly an amazing story!
    mary

    Amazing Pete!!!
    Thanks so much for sharing!

    Jennie
  • Annabelle41415
    Annabelle41415 Member Posts: 6,742 Member
    An Incredible Story
    Oh my goodness, what a story. They did an awesome job conveying your story through the people involved. You are so fortunate to be here today. You have a lovely family. You are a survivor. Thanks for sharing that with us.

    Kim
  • tootsie1
    tootsie1 Member Posts: 5,044 Member
    Wonderful
    That's cool, Pete. Congratulations!

    *hugs*
    Gail
  • tootsie1 said:

    Wonderful
    That's cool, Pete. Congratulations!

    *hugs*
    Gail

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  • pete43lost_at_sea
    pete43lost_at_sea Member Posts: 3,900 Member
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    its nice to have friends to share with
    sharing our adventures and mis adventures is what we do here!!
    if they don't kill us they make us stronger.

    I am dog tired, been wiped out all day but a little hyped with the video and getting things organised for our week long pilgramage to Forster with friends.

    Spoke with the ships captain, he is in Sydney and wants to meet and get his hug and then his bottle of scotch that I promised him.

    I had to tell him I am leaving sydney tomorrow for a weeks family holiday up north.
    So I will miss out on meeting him, but we agreed soon.

    Spent tonight in ER for my daughter, she broken her little toe today and its the day before our family holiday. It was only 2 weeks

    I really appreciated everyones feedback.

    sweet dreams,
    Pete
  • coolvdub
    coolvdub Member Posts: 408 Member

    its nice to have friends to share with
    sharing our adventures and mis adventures is what we do here!!
    if they don't kill us they make us stronger.

    I am dog tired, been wiped out all day but a little hyped with the video and getting things organised for our week long pilgramage to Forster with friends.

    Spoke with the ships captain, he is in Sydney and wants to meet and get his hug and then his bottle of scotch that I promised him.

    I had to tell him I am leaving sydney tomorrow for a weeks family holiday up north.
    So I will miss out on meeting him, but we agreed soon.

    Spent tonight in ER for my daughter, she broken her little toe today and its the day before our family holiday. It was only 2 weeks

    I really appreciated everyones feedback.

    sweet dreams,
    Pete

    very inspiring
    Pete,

    Thanks for sharing the video with us. What an inspirational story. Thanks for helping spread the word about early detection and our battles with cancer, you rock my brother.
    Enjoy your holiday.

    Don
  • TMac52
    TMac52 Member Posts: 352
    Pete I just watched your video!!
    Hi Pete what an inspiration you are. You are a true survivor and are here to share your story of hope with everyone. Before my cancer I was a pretty unemotional guy but now I can cry at the drop of a hat. Your story touched me and I am so happy to have met you. ( i have always wanted to be friends with a celebrity haha) The pictures are beautiful what a world you get to see as a diver, just amazing. Thanks for sharing!!
    Tom
  • allmost60
    allmost60 Member Posts: 3,178 Member
    Great story
    Hi Pete,
    Watched the video and just wanted to say thanks for sharing it.
    Sue (FNHL-Grade2-stage3-typeA-diagnosed 6/10)
    (hopefully soon to be in remission)will find out on Jan 25th.