"Treatment is not working" Michelles story rewritten by Cancer.

Imagine this, your life is going great, you have finally met your soul mate, you are counting down the weeks to your wedding, you have picked out your wedding dress. Your teenage boys are doing so well at school, they are becoming the men you always hoped you would raise them to be. Your home business has just been set up and you are so excited about your new future. Your dreams are becoming a reality!

Then, you have this nagging cold, you know the one, the kind of one that doesn’t want to budge! You go and see your doctor, in the hope she can be a miracle worker and this damn cold will disappear, she orders a blood test.

Three days later, your doctor calls and asks you to go to the hospital for another test, a bone marrow biopsy. Then that very afternoon, you're admitted to hospital.

Acute Myeloid Leukemia…… AML….. CANCER!

'Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a cancer of the myeloid line of blood cells, characterised by the rapid growth of abnormal cells that build up in the bone marrow and blood and interfere with normal blood cells. Symptoms may include feeling tired, shortness of breath, easy bruising and bleeding, and increased risk of infection. As an acute leukemia, AML progresses rapidly and is typically fatal within weeks or months if left untreated’

Fast forward to 10 months later, what can I tell you. Michelle has had night after night in hospital, night after night away from her family, Michelle has had more tests, more blood transfusions, more fevers, more nausea, more medications that any of us could comprehend.

Now the worst news, Michelle has been told her treatment is no longer working. There are no other options. There is nothing more they can do.

These are the words no one should ever have to hear. These are the words that should never be said to someone we love. These are the words Michelles now husband and boys shouldn’t have to be told.

Michelle doesn’t have a time frame, but what we know is we can help with what time Michelle has left by helping her try one more treatment, this treatment wont fix everything but it may give Michelle more time, this treatment is a trial and is not funded. It is called Interferon. The long acting version of this is $700 a vial - which could be 3 weekly injections worth.

Michelle needs all the help she can get to be able to pay for this treatment, to help to give her more time, more time so Michelle can have a dream holiday with her boys. Let them have their time with their mother making memories that they will treasure.

Imagine, if this was you……what would you do.