Yawning, I pulled myself out of bed.
At 13 years old, I was constantly tired. My parents, Lyn, then 46, and Sean, 40, thought it was the demands of starting high school. But then I suddenly developed double vision.
Our GP ordered blood tests and, that night, Mum received a phone call to rush me to the Queensland Children’s Hospital in Brisbane.
‘What could be so wrong that I have to go straight to hospital?’
I asked, scared.
‘I don’t know,’ Mum replied, worried.
There, they sent me for a bone marrow test. The next morning, the doctor
