Cherie stated Pricey’s prognosis got here as a shock after shedding his sister Nicky to bowel most cancers three years earlier, and alongside medical remedy he was open to making an attempt integrative therapies and non secular actions to combat the sickness.
“Paul was fairly a conservative man, however he simply opened himself as much as every part and I had the best respect for him for that,” she stated.
“He challenged himself on the most troublesome time.”
In later life he discovered an outlet for his footy near residence on the native Beaumaris Sharks, becoming a member of the teaching group when his son Nate received a premiership and saying on the time that “each grand remaining is a superb win”, Cherie stated.
“Nonetheless as much as the final couple of weeks, in the event that they have been residence video games, we’d drive down and sit within the automotive and watch, and he may critique our youngsters’ video games in probably the most brutal and trustworthy methods however not in a method that may crush them.”
Recruited from Churchill within the LaTrobe Valley, he made his debut for the Hawks in 1987 alongside his older brother, Hawthorn ruckman Greg Pricey, and performed within the shedding grand remaining that season.
Nonetheless, he was not within the back-to-back premiership groups as he battled to determine himself till 1990 when he turned a key a part of the Hawks’ subsequent wave combining peak, agility and a booming left foot to play wherever the group wanted him.
He labored for sports activities know-how firm Catapult Sports activities and coached at native degree after his taking part in profession ended.
On The Entrance Bar final yr, he stated he had been advised the sickness was incurable when he was recognized with stage 4 pancreatic most cancers, and paid tribute to the help he had acquired from his spouse Cherie and Pancare, an organisation devoted to constructing consciousness across the sickness.
“After the preliminary shock, you’re taking a breath and also you sit down and also you go, ‘Properly, what’s subsequent?’” Pricey stated.
His efforts to lift consciousness of pancreatic most cancers noticed the marketing campaign Dare to Hope launched, with the Hawks to play the Dare to Hope match on the MCG subsequent Sunday to lift cash for the Dare to Hope Paul Pricey Pancreatic Most cancers Fund. The Dare to Hope documentary is because of be aired quickly.
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