'I'm sorry mum, but we have exhausted all medical options to fight your son's cancer and it is so rare that we don't have the answers. I know you have been considering an overseas clinic, is there something I can assist with?'
Jennifer tells the raw and emotional story of her son's steely determination to overcome the rarest of rare cancers.
She captures the mood of desperation, the highs and the lows, and involves the reader as if they were part of her family willing her son to overcome an insidious disease.
Matthew, a 24-year-old expat living his dream, working as an engineer with a global employer found himself in uncharted territories when a sudden and unexpected diagnosis left him facing the risk of paraplegia and forced him to return home.
Jennifer a clinical Naturopath and matriarch of a can-do family of six, swung into action. Her story provides an insight into negotiating the medical system, gives strength to those seeking mental fortitude and describes strategies required in times of unrelenting adversity.
There needs to be carrots in life to chase, and this story explores a myriad of rabbit holes in search of the elixir of life.