The super fit business student, from Sydney, led an active lifestyle as she was training to become a professional ballerina and was swimming at state level for NSW. 7NEWS
The teenager was told chemotherapy would likely rob her of the chance of having kids - and she would face the heartbreaking likelihood of going through early menopause.
However, she knew something wasn’t right when she noticed odd hard lumps under her skin around her neck in mid-2019.“When I reached up to touch above my collarbone, I felt all of these big hard lumps in my neck.” “He immediately said they needed to do an excisional biopsy and cut out a whole node to biopsy it properly,” she recalls.
“I couldn’t get off Google... thinking that you ‘might’ have cancer was far worse than just knowing you have it and being able to formulate a plan. The bright business student’s life changed one day at a cafe when she noticed something unusual on her neck.As she faced cancer at just 19, Maddie says she couldn’t help but feel conscious about her physical appearance.
“But sometimes the grief of remembering I’ll live a whole entire life that he won’t get to see weighs very heavy.”As she started gruelling rounds of chemotherapy, Maddie says she began to endure severe bone pain, mouth ulcers, extreme lethargy and drastic hair and weight loss. Maddie says she found the strength to get through each day when she started using her Instagram account as a ‘diary’ to share details about her journey.During her treatments, she refused to let her mum go to any of her appointments.“For me, I couldn’t bear her to see me suffer, so I let my friends, boyfriend and brothers take me instead.”
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