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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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It is a Friday, and one thing we like to
do on a Friday is go fund me Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Yeah, put a spotlight on somebody in our community that's
that's in the top right now and needs a little
bit of support. And we know our community is great
at supporting people, especially with a golf on me forg
all your coffee, Put five bucks, ten bucks, whatever it
is to somebody's cause and help them out.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Get a cup of good karma.
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Now.
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This morning we're joined by the lovely Kelly from Albion Park. Hey,
kel Hi, tell us what's been going on.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
So early she started going to the gym very active.
So I thought it would be a nice thing for me
and my son to do. Started going to the gym
and one night in the shower, you know when you
sort of feel your body for lumps and by phone
things that shouldn't be there, And I found this really
big lump at the back of my side, just below
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the buttons. It was big too, really big. I was
asking everybody to what do they think it is? That
woman nurse?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
You know?
Speaker 4 (01:18):
So I went off to the doctors and I got
some scans and I got an mrr came back that
it was a tumor. The first thing I asked the
doctor was do you have to chop my leg off?
Of course, but he sent me through to a neurosurgeon
in Wollongong who saw me the same day that he
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saw the scans. He thought it was a nerves she's tumor.
And I said to them, do you think this is cancer?
It's like, what's the chance his cancer and it's spread
and I'm just walking around normally, and it said it
happens to people every day. So that was a big
shock because he said, yes, he thinks it's cancer. So
it turns out the tumor was very, very bright, but
luckily hasn't spread any red. But the following week, when
(02:03):
I was at work, I got a call from the
neuros version and he said, Kelly, it's not a nerve
sheath tumor. It's a sarcoma. It's a mixley lipost arcoma,
which is a rare cancer of the soft tissue. Anyway,
I had to take a month off work and drive
to Sydney every day to get radiation. I was so
lucky that my work just gave me all the sick
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days care is leave annual leave, so I was still
getting paid at this time. At the end of that
more scan, so you think yourself, hope it hasn't spread again.
I hope it's shrunk. Hadn't spread, but it hadn't really
shrunk either. So then there was the Kelly, we're gonna
have to take your nerve and a really big piece
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out of your legs. It's just such a big cut
and they took such a big piece out that basically
now I've just got a paralyzed leg, you know, working
as a nurse in the community with NDIS people, and
then all of a sudden, can't drive, can't do anything
on my own for fallover. I wasn't going to get
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my car.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
It's really it's really really hardy forty six. So you
go from this, you know, a strong independent woman, so
having to relign on everyone all the time, and it's
really really hard that would be.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
And you've got five kids too.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yeah, I do I do. So there's that, and then
I still after the surgery, they said to me, we
want you to have chemo to give you a better
chance of an honorary occurrence. Over five people I've just
gone through around one. Let me tell you, I understand
what people say, know the chemo because it's worse than anything.
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So I don't know. It's really bad, but you know what
I mean, So lucky, like a couple of really good
people around me, my sister in law and my mother
in law. You know, that's been so good and supporting me,
and I feel sorry for people that don't have that.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
But okayl we really feel for you and your family.
You know, you've chosen a career as a nurse to
help other people, and now you need help because I'm
assuming you can't work at the moment, so you probably
lost your income.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I have Illora.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Let's do what we do best, and that is help
out people in need. As Damiens said, for go your
coffee today, you five dollars. It might not mean NUTCH
to you, but it will go a long way to
helping out Kelly and her family.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Darlant so much.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
We really feel for you.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Yeah, it's really hard. You know, just one minute you're
going along and then that's it. You know, you don't
even think he was thinking get breast cancer and all
of the years and it's a red cancer of the
soft tissue, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Well, check up, darling. It sounds like that you have
got a positive outlook and you know that's still go
a long way to getting you through. But you don't
want to have to worry about money. So help out
Kell if you can.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Think thinks, oh well, look you keep you chacking up,
stare fighting and stay positive. All right?
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Thank you guys.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Go fund me Friday. You can get the link to
Kell's go fundme page at the ninety six five waverfm
facebook page And if you know someone doing it tough,
get in contact with us. Go fund me Friday, Jadd
and Damien at Waverfm