{"id":206,"date":"2008-11-25T20:32:47","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T10:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/?p=206"},"modified":"2008-11-25T20:59:26","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T10:59:26","slug":"little-brother-has-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/archives\/2008\/11\/25\/little-brother-has-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Little brother has cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago my brother was diagnosed with Hodgkin&#8217;s lymphoma.\u00c2\u00a0 He went to his doctor about an enlargement in one of his lymph nodes in his neck.\u00c2\u00a0 After two biopsy&#8217;s they confirmed that he had Cancer.\u00c2\u00a0 A full body scan showed another enlargement in his chest cavity, indicating Stage 2 lymphoma.<\/p>\n<p>He start chemotherapy this Friday in Townsville.\u00c2\u00a0 He has had to move himself and his family 900km&#8217;s into a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cancer.org.au\/Home.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Cancer Council<\/a> provided apartment for 6 months.\u00c2\u00a0 His wife, nine month old boy and himself had to packup his house, arrange for it to be leased out and relocate in the space of a week.\u00c2\u00a0 His employer has been fantastic, arranging leave and covering his income until his income insurance kicks in.<\/p>\n<p>The outcome looks good, he is fit and healthy and the success rate for curing this form of cancer is over 90%.\u00c2\u00a0 My thoughts go to his lovely wife that will be bearing the load of looking after him and their son.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_210\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-210\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-content\/2008\/11\/bj.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-210\" title=\"Little Brother\" src=\"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-content\/2008\/11\/bj-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"(Wedding in 2205)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-210\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Wedding in 2005)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago my brother was diagnosed with Hodgkin&#8217;s lymphoma.\u00c2\u00a0 He went to his doctor about an enlargement in one of his lymph nodes in his neck.\u00c2\u00a0 After two biopsy&#8217;s they confirmed that he had Cancer.\u00c2\u00a0 A full body scan showed another enlargement in his chest cavity, indicating Stage 2 lymphoma. He start &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/archives\/2008\/11\/25\/little-brother-has-cancer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Little brother has cancer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Family","category-Personal","tag-cancer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}