Susan and Ken beam over their six beautiful children - Matthew, nine, Kaiden, seven, Mia, six, Logan, four, Jaxon, three, and Cooper, who is now eight months old.
“I want to be open to my kids so they can ask questions about my cancer,” Susan says, adding she never sought to hide the disease from her children.“Only the two eldest really understand. They know I am sick.“That really broke me.”Supplied “Everything was fine. Jaxon was born healthy,” she says of the day in October 2020 that he came into the world.
“I wanted more kids, but we waited until after the two-year mark to make sure everything with the cancer was fine,” she explains.After Susan was given the ‘all clear’, she was over the moon - especially upon discovering she was carrying baby number six.But when she was four months pregnant with son Cooper she began feeling a stabbing pain in her ribs.
Pushing through the pain of childbirth several months later, Susan delivered a very healthy 4.7kg baby.“It just wasn’t making sense.”Now a mum-of-six, Susan couldn’t shake the feeling that something wasn’t right, so she requested a full body scan.“It was everywhere,” Susan says of the cancer - which had spread to her lungs, liver and bones.Supplied
“I can’t thank them enough for all their help,” she says, adding that she has also jumped on multiple cancer support groups on Facebook.