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http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/cancer-tragedy-family-heartbreak-as-victims-get-grim-news/story-fni0fit3-1227134203425
| Quote: | A MELBOURNE mum has heartbreakingly told of how she is set to lose two of her three children to cancer after Christmas.
Mernda woman Lee White’s son Ashley, 22, and daughter Sam, 17, are both battling terminal cancers, and Sam is unlikely to live past Christmas.
Both have inherited a cancer gene from their parents.
Ms White and husband Michael’s third child Becky, 19, does not carry the gene and is perfectly healthy.
Ms White told 3AW this morning that both Ashley and Sam face a bleak outlook.
Sam has been given until just Christmas to live after a brain tumour she was first diagnosed with at age eight grew back in July, while Ashley has incurable stomach cancer.
Facing her last Christmas with all her children, Ms White had just one wish: to be able to get Sam — a mad Western Bulldogs supporter — the bulldog puppy she has always wanted.
“We’ve never been able to get her one,” Ms White said.
“We’ve looked and looked and looked. They’re hard to find and they’re expensive as well.
“She would be over the moon.”
The family’s wish came true this morning, when 3AW tracked down nine-week-old female bulldog pup Pixie from a breeder in Maryborough.
3AW listeners also raised $30,000 for the struggling family in just over an hour.
Sam has undergone surgery and intensive radiation and chemotherapy twice to fight a brain tumour in 2005 and again in 2012.
“In July they told us that the tumour had grown back at the back of her brain and it was spreading across, so there was nothing more they could do for her,” Ms White said.
“(The outlook is) not very good. They think maybe Christmas.”
Sam’s older brother Ashley has terminal stomach cancer.
Ms White said her son had been ill since he was just two years old, when he was diagnosed with leukaemia.
He had 18 months of treatment for the cancer, and relapsed soon after, receiving a bone-marrow transplant and received blood from his sister Becky’s umbilical cord as well as high dosage chemotherapy and radiation.
Ms White said her son was healthy until had his first colonoscopy at age 18 and it was discovered he had incurable stomach cancer.
“He’s not as good as we’d like him to be — he locks himself away in his room, we think he’s a little bit depressed,” Ms White said of her son.
“But he tries to handle it as best he can.
“He’s very small, lost a lot of weight. They’ve told us that it’s incurable.” |
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stui magpie 
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
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HAL
Please don't shout at me - I can't help it.
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| 1061 wrote: | http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/cancer-tragedy-family-heartbreak-as-victims-get-grim-news/story-fni0fit3-1227134203425
[quote]A MELBOURNE mum has heartbreakingly told of how she is set to lose two of her three children to cancer after Christmas.
Mernda woman Lee White’s son Ashley, 22, and daughter Sam, 17, are both battling terminal cancers, and Sam is unlikely to live past Christmas.
Both have inherited a cancer gene from their parents.
Ms White and husband Michael’s third child Becky, 19, does not carry the gene and is perfectly healthy.
Ms White told 3AW this morning that both Ashley and Sam face a bleak outlook.
Sam has been given until just Christmas to live after a brain tumour she was first diagnosed with at age eight grew back in July, while Ashley has incurable stomach cancer.
Facing her last Christmas with all her children, Ms White had just one wish: to be able to get Sam — a mad Western Bulldogs supporter — the bulldog puppy she has always wanted.
“We’ve never been able to get her one,” Ms White said.
“We’ve looked and looked and looked. They’re hard to find and they’re expensive as well.
“She would be over the moon.”
The family’s wish came true this morning, when 3AW tracked down nine-week-old female bulldog pup Pixie from a breeder in Maryborough.
3AW listeners also raised $30,000 for the struggling family in just over an hour.
Sam has undergone surgery and intensive radiation and chemotherapy twice to fight a brain tumour in 2005 and again in 2012.
“In July they told us that the tumour had grown back at the back of her brain and it was spreading across, so there was nothing more they could do for her,” Ms White said.
“(The outlook is) not very good. They think maybe Christmas.”
Sam’s older brother Ashley has terminal stomach cancer.
Ms White said her son had been ill since he was just two years old, when he was diagnosed with leukaemia.
He had 18 months of treatment for the cancer, and relapsed soon after, receiving a bone-marrow transplant and received blood from his sister Becky’s umbilical cord as well as high dosage chemotherapy and radiation.
Ms White said her son was healthy until had his first colonoscopy at age 18 and it was discovered he had incurable stomach cancer.
“He’s not as good as we’d like him to be — he locks himself away in his room, we think he’s a little bit depressed,” Ms White said of her son.
“But he tries to handle it as best he can.
“He’s very small, lost a lot of weight. They’ve told us that it’s incurable.”[/quote] |
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Very sad news! I saw this the other night on the 6pm news.
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Geez. Pass me the whiskey - that's a shocker. Perspective indeed.
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