Jane McGrath, wife of Aussie cricket star Glenn McGrath, has fought and beaten cancer twice. Yet nothing prepared her for the discovery that the cancer had returned — this time, as a brain tumour. The couple tell Michael Sheather of the love that has sustained them and how Jane dreams of growing old and watching her children grow up.
“I turned 40 last year and I thought that perhaps it was because I needed glasses, so I went along to get myself tested,” recalls Jane. “I was supposed to press a button when I saw a dot cross the screen and, when we finished, the optometrist said, ‘This is strange. There’s one area where you were completely blank, where you didn’t record anything at all. I think you should see a specialist’.
“It was the way she said it. I’d heard it before. Suddenly, I had a flashback to 1997, when I had my first mammogram and they found the breast cancer. I could see the envelope with my breast X-rays inside it on the desk and on the outside was a luminous note with a specialist’s appointment scribbled on it. I just thought, ‘Oh, no. This is it, all over again’.”
Read the whole story, only in the March 2007 issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly.
Watch Deb Thomas talk to the Today show about Jane McGrath’s fight with cancer.
Glenn McGrath talks to the Today show about Jane’s new Breast Friends campaign.
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