Welcome to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast. Hey, thank you very much for downloading this very special podcast. So on the show then, over the last sort of week, we've been getting these amazing stories and honoring these amazing stories from people who've been going through cancer and have come the other side of it. And there's stories of hope. That's why we wanted to do this. And we did it also with Cancer Council of Victoria. We're very proud to do

anything for after the alarming stat that one in two of us will be diagnosed with cancer before we're

85. So let's change our chances, donate to Cancer Council of Victoria and fund life-saving

cancer research.

So I want to put all these amazing stories together because actually listening to them all day by day,

all this, the journey that they went on, there's so much actually for us to learn.

I got a sense of gratitude listening to them every single day.

It started Monday with our Patsy from the show

sharing her story. Yeah, I was diagnosed seven, about seven and a half years ago with kidney

cancer, which hit me for six. Strangely enough, my eldest brother was diagnosed exactly

12 months earlier.

They don't really know.

Latest sort of thoughts are that it's not necessarily genetic.

It might be just a freak thing or maybe we've been exposed to something younger in life.

That's irrelevant.

He was diagnosed before me though.

So how my story came about was, you know, I was 43. I had a

toddler at home. Audrey was three. You know, I was a busy mum. You know, Jack spoke before about

Bianca, you guys are going through that period where everything's crazy. You've got, you know,

you've got a new boy. Yeah. It's just like, it's like a marathon getting to the end of each week.

And that's the phase we were in. We're also in this beautiful, happy bubble of our little home.

You know, we'd fought five years to get Audrey and she was finally here. And this was just, and still is, just our nirvana.

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