00:00I felt dizziness and I felt faint at work one time so I made the appointment with my GP.
00:06She thought it was vertigo. When I came out to the car after being in that appointment with my mum
00:12I turned to her and I said that I had a brain tumour and my mum just went grace that's
00:19not
00:19happening. I just I had a feeling when my cancer was found it was a stage four. I'd waited even
00:28just weeks. I may not be here.
00:36A lot of the time all of those specialists are up in major hospitals in the capitals and that can
00:44be
00:44really difficult to get to. I had radiotherapy every day. If I was travelling from home that would
00:51have been a two-hour journey and then the same back. And when you're feeling nauseous, when
00:58you have the effects of chemo and the cancer itself, it would have been too much.
01:05One of my nurses mentioned the You Can Stay program and it honestly, it sounded too good
01:12to be true. What do you mean somebody's going to pay for an apartment in Sydney? I wouldn't
01:17have been able to do treatment without it. That meant that I had my mum with me. I had daily
01:24radiotherapy. When I had to do an IVF round, she administered every needle. You know, sometimes I
01:31was having five needles a day. She would make sure that I had something small to eat, even though I
01:37didn't feel like eating at all. I wouldn't have been able to do it without her. Even with my mum
01:43there constantly, there was a point in time where my treatment was almost too much and I asked to stop
01:50it.
01:51There's a common feeling throughout patients and survivors once their, once their treatment is
01:56done. And it's, it's called the now what feeling. Now what? You've been through cancer. You've had
02:04this experience that has changed you, you know, mind and body like forever. Advocacy for me helps me find
02:14reason and purpose in that way. I'm not the only one it's happening to. This is happening again and
02:20again. Like even now, there are more people who've just been diagnosed with a life-changing cancer.
02:26And so having that space to draw attention to it as time goes on, even if it's just a small
02:34percentage, it will continue to get better for the people after me.
02:43You know your body better than anyone else. And if you feel that something's wrong,
02:50continue to fight for those, those life-saving tests. You just know, you know it better than anyone.
02:59gonna exhale였습니다.
03:01Tic, Tic, Tic, T.
03:01Tic, Tic, Tic, Tic, Tic, Tic, Tic, Tick, Tic
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