Oli’s Story

Oli’s Story

Oli is 14 years old and absolutely soccer mad. He plays for a club as well as an academy and has recently been to the National Cup in Sydney where his team came third in the Under 14’s category. Oli has lightning pace backed up by a massive goal scoring ability. Last...
Bianca’s Story

Bianca’s Story

Nathan and Bianca have two inquisitive, adventurous and mischievous children, their son aged 10, and daughter aged 6. Oliver was a miserable baby, suffering from reflux and food allergies and often was unable to sleep for longer than an hour due to his severe pain. He...
Lisa’s Story

Lisa’s Story

Trigger Warning: suicide. (If this story raises any concerns, please contact Lifeline Ph: 13 11 14) For as long as she can remember Lisa always wanted to be a mum. As a child, when people asked her what she wanted to be, the answer was “a mum”. She wanted a huge...
Sharon’s Story

Sharon’s Story

Emergency Department, drowsy and increasingly delirious. Doctors began blood tests and found that she had extremely low platelets. Her absolute count was 16,000 so she was given 4 units of platelets overnight in the High Dependency Unit. CT scans showed Sharon had 3...
Tyson’s Story

Tyson’s Story

Tyson was born in April 2013 in Sydney and was reasonably well for the first 6 months of his life. It was around October 2013 when he began to have a series of unexplained infections and fevers that would go away with IV antibiotics and return soon after they were...