It’s more than two and a half years since Megan lost her life to cancer
I am writing this more than two and a half years after Megan, our youngest daughter, finally lost her battle with cancer. She was just 11 years old and had spent five of her young years living with cancer. It’s hard to remember what life was like for our family before cancer struck. As with so many families, life was busy juggling work and family commitments. The photograph albums remind me life was good. Fun. Normal. Simple. That all changed when Megan was diagnosed with an ependymoma, a rare form of brain cancer, just before her 6th birthday. It took a few weeks and help from a paediatric friend to get a diagnosis after what started out as a sharp pain in Megan’s buttock area that frequently woke her in the night with screaming pain. An MRI confirmed everyone’s worst fears, cancer.