Patient stories
Warrior nurse
This is me....
These photos was taken on my 30th birthday...3 years ago this month. I thought I had my future wide open, I was happy, content, healthy...
Fast-forward till today, I went through a pandemic as a critical care nurse, experienced extreme stess and anxiety and then got my diagnosis of Essential Thrombocythemia with a platelets count of 1.5 million, started treatment and now just learning to live with my diagnosis, getting information, managing my anxiety, stress, symptoms and grateful for the now, the today!!
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Susan and Billy's story
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Gracie's story
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Ruby's Leukaemia & Lymphoma story
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