Health
‘Stand strong’: Community the key for Oli, diagnosed with cancer during lockdown – The Age
On his father Kirk’s 50th birthday, the family found out Oli had medulloblastoma, a fast-growing and aggressive cancer which about 25 children are diagnosed with…
After surgery, Oli underwent 30 rounds of radiation therapy; having to be put under general anaesthetic each time. In January, he began chemotherapy. Hes undergone lumbar punctures, blood and platelet transfusions, fevers and rounds of antibiotics after each transfusion. There are five more months of treatment to go.
And there is the unexpected cost of chronic illness. The family had to renovate, changing a drafty, small spare room into a room for Oli. This meant it had to be carpeted, heated and…
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