Dec 13, 2020Assisted Dying is an urgent issue for New South Wales.I can vividly remember the moment my doctor told me that a scan had found cancer in my liver. Just two weeks earlier a ‘precautionary’ colonoscopy had resulted in a surprise bowel cancer diagnosis, but my doctors had been confident we’d caught it early. The fact cancer had now been…Terminal Illness9 min readTerminal Illness9 min read
Jul 27, 2019Life, imaginedI’ve written before about how, as part of my dual tracking approach to a stage 4 cancer diagnosis, I’ve been recording a series of videos for my kids. I’ve also been writing something I’ve called ‘A long letter from Dad’. …Imagination10 min readImagination10 min read
Jul 26, 2019Member-onlyLiving with terminal velocityThis week marks the two year anniversary of my cancer diagnosis — at the time aged 35 with three beautiful kids under the age of five. Much of the last two years has been about figuring out how to live with a strange duality. Statistically, I’m led to believe that…Cancer7 min readCancer7 min read
Nov 22, 2017Four months post Stage 4 cancer diagnosis. Where has the introspection got me ?It’s been around four months since I was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer at the age of 35. You can read about my initial freak out here. Since then I’ve done four cycles of chemotherapy, five weeks of radiation therapy and I was hospitalized as a result of two pulmonary…Cancer7 min readCancer7 min read
Aug 14, 2017I’m 35 and I may suddenly have lost the rest of my life. I’m panicking, just a bit.It’s been a while since I put a piece of writing in the public domain, but suddenly I have a lot to get off my chest, well my colon actually. Just three weeks ago life was good. Correction. It was awesome. The newest addition to our family had arrived on…Cancer6 min readCancer6 min read
