Category: Personal Stories
In February 2012, I started getting difficulties. Nothing terribly sinister: tiredness from time to time, mouth ulcers and then the most painful thing of all for a keen cyclist – a boil on the backside. Finally in late March I…
Written by Tracey’s mum, Robyn Cross. When my daughter Tracey was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1998 at age 38, I had not heard of that type of cancer, but her father had died of a glioma, tumour of the…
Arrow director and past bone marrow transplant recipient, Lisa Cuthbertson, returned from the World Transplant Games with a tally of 4 gold and 2 bronze medals, also surviving a protest against her zippered ‘Thorpedo suit’. She’s since bought a new…
By John Fitzsimon Just over 37 years ago I learned about leukaemia. The hard way. I was a 17 year old schoolboy with no experience of illness or accidents, nor any pointy medical instruments beyond the occasional dentist needle and…
I have a wife and 2 young boys, a wonderful family and a very close network of friends and work colleagues who have been incredibly supportive through this entire ordeal and with what can only be described as a miraculous…
By Darren Williams I recently had the pleasure of competing in the Hawkesbury Canoe Classic (http://www.canoeclassic.asn.au), a 111km overnight race/paddle down the Hawkesbury River. This is an annual mecca for kayak and canoe enthusiasts plus anyone else looking to test…
I was 17 years old, and in the middle of my Higher School Certificate, when I was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML) in 2011, at Liverpool Hospital. I received my first two rounds of intense chemotherapy there, but because…
by Philip Hartog My wife, Sylvia Hartog, was diagnosed with myelofibrosis in April 2010 at 49 years of age. Myelofibrosis is a disorder of the bone marrow in which the bone marrow is replaced by fibrous scar tissue, impairing its…