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...