This year I have witnessed the impact breast cancer can have on a family. What Lal and Charlie thought would be a simple check-up quickly revealed stage three breast cancer.
Straight away I offered to look after the three boys 6, 4 and 1, and immediately I stepped off the farm and moved into the main house to be there to keep the kids in somewhat of a routine. Cooking, cleaning, midnight bottle feeds, pickups and drop-offs, school lunchboxes, cuddles, cries, early mornings, late nights, constant bursts of sickness the kids picked up from daycare and a routine that was very foreign to me have now become my norm.
All while their mother, a wife, a sister, a daughter, a relative, a friend, was living with cancer. Undergoing physical changes, surgery, two types of chemotherapy, radiotherapy and all the travel that was needed to get to appointment after appointment. For Lal, for Charlie, for myself, and all of her family and friends, this has been such an emotional roller coaster that has been extremely draining, but also rewarding.
Thankfully, after undergoing all of this the results have come back clear for now, but the possibility of it returning hasn’t gone. But how lucky we are to have the present, the future and the research into breast cancer.
Breast cancer has become my whole year. Although I didn’t have the disease, I live with it and have seen its effects first hand. Let’s help The Brest Cancer Network continue to research and aim for no deaths by 2030.
Any donations would mean the world to me and I would love anyone and everyone to join me on the Carmens Fun Run, 1st of December in St Kilda.
Straight away I offered to look after the three boys 6, 4 and 1, and immediately I stepped off the farm and moved into the main house to be there to keep the kids in somewhat of a routine. Cooking, cleaning, midnight bottle feeds, pickups and drop-offs, school lunchboxes, cuddles, cries, early mornings, late nights, constant bursts of sickness the kids picked up from daycare and a routine that was very foreign to me have now become my norm.
All while their mother, a wife, a sister, a daughter, a relative, a friend, was living with cancer. Undergoing physical changes, surgery, two types of chemotherapy, radiotherapy and all the travel that was needed to get to appointment after appointment. For Lal, for Charlie, for myself, and all of her family and friends, this has been such an emotional roller coaster that has been extremely draining, but also rewarding.
Thankfully, after undergoing all of this the results have come back clear for now, but the possibility of it returning hasn’t gone. But how lucky we are to have the present, the future and the research into breast cancer.
Breast cancer has become my whole year. Although I didn’t have the disease, I live with it and have seen its effects first hand. Let’s help The Brest Cancer Network continue to research and aim for no deaths by 2030.
Any donations would mean the world to me and I would love anyone and everyone to join me on the Carmens Fun Run, 1st of December in St Kilda.
Organizer
Breast Cancer Network Australia
Beneficiary