A brush with cancer led former ABC presenter Chris Kimball to take up a post at the head of Snowy Hydro Southcare but now it's inspiring him to seek his next adventure.
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The former presenter of ABC television's 7.30 will finish up at the end of July after more than a year at the helm of the lifesaving helicopter service.
Mr Kimball said he and his family, wife Kerri and children Violet, 6, and Noah, 10, will relocate to the Mid-North Coast to make up for time lost due to his life-threatening battle with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a type of blood cancer, in 2012.
"While my health at the moment is really, really good, we're acutely conscious of just how lucky I am to be here. I lost my dad to cancer last year so all of that made us say 'look, let's stop putting off the adventures that we've always wanted to have a crack at'," Mr Kimball said.
"For my kids, the majority of their life has been spent with either me being sick or getting over being sick so there's an element of wanting to get a bit of that time back and being able to be in a place where I can spend a bit of time with them and do the things we love doing, the swimming, the fishing, the surfing.
"We've also never had the opportunity to live at the coast and it's a place where we're really, as a family, the happiest."
Mr Kimball, who left the ABC at the end of 2014 after the network scrapped its local weekly 7.30 bulletin, was diagnosed with the aggressive and advanced cancer four years ago.
After a bone-marrow transplant, Mr Kimball recovered in an isolation ward initially and then lived at a unit next to the hospital, provided by the Leukemia Foundation.
He later became a strong advocate and fund-raiser for the foundation, which led to his role at Snowy Hydro Southcare.
But while he's moving on, there are stories from his time with the service that will stay with him.
"The one story that affected me the most was the story of the Collins family, Brodie Collins, the young boy who was hit by a car at Gungahlin," Mr Kimball said.
"They're such a wonderful, loving family who've become such terrific, unassuming advocates for the service. We hosted them out here at a base visit in my early time and I've got a young bloke the same age as Brodie and that was like a punch in the gut. It makes you realise that could so easily be my young bloke in that situation.
"It really brings home the value of what the guys do when you get to meet the results, a living, breathing testament to the work of the Snowy Hydro Southcare crews."
Recruitment for Mr Kimball's replacement has begun.