May 11, 2025 | STORIES
I DON’T KNOW – Jane Whitehead Death When will I die? How will I die? What happens after I die … Wait. I will address Death in its rightful place – at the end of this unfortunate, but true story.Let me start at the beginning. Diagnosis Astrocytoma,...
Jul 1, 2022 | STORIES
“You think your nurse is dying?” exclaimed my 19-year-old son, who was at my bedside in the Royal Melbourne Hospital ICU in early 2020. Surgery had left me unable to communicate with my voice, so I had been trying a different communication method. I would “dictate”...
Jul 1, 2022 | STORIES
My daughter, Catherine was an avid reader of the BTAA e-News and Magazine, constantly looking for new treatments and information on the latest research. Together, we attended a couple of the support meetings in Canberra but the travel became too much her. She donated...
Jun 19, 2022 | STORIES
I have entered a phase on my brain tumour “journey” called ‘Watch and Wait’. Sounds simple? Not when you dig deeper into both the physicality of repeated scans, and the emotional distress it provokes routinely, like clockwork every three months. Watch and...
Jun 19, 2022 | STORIES
About eighteen years ago, after two weeks of occasional headaches, I ended up in hospital. Scans revealed a twenty-millimetre mass inside my brain and I had surgery four days later with a full resection. Pathology revealed a Grade 4 GBM (Glioblastoma Multiforme)....
Jun 10, 2022 | STORIES
Maverick grief – Igniting a global grief revolution for change – Jennifer Donohoe Grieving Mother, (Bachelor of Business – Communications, RN) One of the greatest travesties of our time is the avoidance of grieving parents and siblings along with the...
