Martina's Song

bassdude · Post by **bassdude** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 3:30 pm

<a name="planetz-file"></a><a href="http://www.planetz.com/Pulsar/files/mus ... .mp3"><img src="/forums/images/listen_icon.gif" border="0" alt=" Song"> Song</a> <a name="planetz-tag"></a>Genre: Acoustic <a name="planetz-tag"></a>Uses: Pulsar Effects,Pulsar Mixers copyright © 2006 JMEDigital & Bill Olsan _____________________________________ Just an acoustic song a music colleague wrote for our family. We will be working on a full version for radio. We had a little baby boy and after 3 months, my fiancee found out she had breast cancer (she's only 30). This song is part of an effort to fundraise for her treatments. One of the treatments she requires is Herceptin and that is very expensive ($60,000 AUD per year). Unfortunately the prognosis is not good even with all the treatment and we don't know how long she's got.

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Stuart.

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wayne · Post by **wayne** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 9:13 pm

That's the saddest thing, Stuart, made me cry for you.

Is there a lobby for our government to subsidise Herceptin? What can be done?

eliam · Post by **eliam** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 9:23 pm

I send you all the Love at my command to strengthen and help you and your loved ones through this trial!

Élie

Post by **hubird** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 4:09 am

Wish you all the strength both of you will need Bassdude.
Hope this song will do the job!

bassdude · Post by **bassdude** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 2:37 pm

Thanks for the kind words lads. I would not wish this on anyone. All she wants to do is see our little boy grow up. I have never felt so much heartache in all my life.
Wayne, There has been a bit of publicity about Herceptin lately and the Health minister is trying to fast track the availability of herceptin on the PBS. Which is good but it is still too late for us. We can't wait for that to happen. Friends have gathered together and fund raising is underway.
We have a web site <a href=http://www.fightformartina.com/>here</a> if you want to take a look.
And the Canberra Times wrote a really good article <a href=http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/detail ... 17>here</a>.

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Post by **garyb** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:20 pm

what a terrible story!
good luck, may you have the strength you need to get through this(the whole family!)...

AudioIrony · Post by **AudioIrony** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:05 pm

My thoughts are with you and your family.

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:43 am

a touching song, Stuart...
I was really concerned after your first lines when checking the details of that drup (and the circumstances under which it is applied), but your 2 links above showed that you're on the right track.

You already have the strongest of all remedies - your love and the courage of your future wife.
It's stronger than any chemistry.
My deepest respect for her way of dealing with those (complicated) medical facts and fight for her child and love.

Not to be pathetic, but Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France more often than anyone else on earth - after cancer with a mere 15% chance to survive.
Martina looks like having the same fighting spirit - so the prospects could be much better than clinical facts may suggest.

my sentiments are with you three, Tom

alfonso · Post by **alfonso** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 4:00 pm

I deeply desire everything turns well and that my desire could be helpful.
Let's hope.

bassdude · Post by **bassdude** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 4:59 pm

Thanks again for all the kind words.

Astroman, not to take away from Lance (all cancer cases are serious), however, Lance was given a 40% chance of survival with advanced cancer. Unfortunately My fiancee's type of cancer is very unusual and aggressive (this does mean they are giving her case more attention). If she does get a secondary tumour (advanced metastatic breast cancer) then, in her particular case, her survival chances falls to 0%.

eliam · Post by **eliam** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:49 pm

Doctors may be well intentioned but they seldom really understand the self-healing power within each one! "Miraculous" (so-called) healings do happen every day, but if one gives way to the doctor's fatalistic perspectives, then it's true that there is little hope left...

Don't give up! And ask for God's Light to come down and fill the whole situation with all the Love and strength needed to conquer this thing! This is the most powerful thing in the universe, so why not use it?

bassdude · Post by **bassdude** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 1:52 pm

Thanks eliam, yep those are the stats the docs give us. We will be doing everything we can do give her the best chance. We have already booked in to a 10 day retreat later this year which is all about surviving cancer with self healing, diet and meditation etc.

eliam · Post by **eliam** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 8:23 pm

Yes, it's a good idea to get out of our usual environment to allow a deep introspection, a contact with our own Inner Sacred Temple. When the intellect becomes quiet enough, then the contact with our Sacred Fire within can be established for good! The trials we all go through serve that purpose: to give us opportunity to get in touch with parts of ourselves that too often remin neglected, because we are too busy dealing with the outer effects of things rather than trying to contact the Universal Causal Principle of Life, which if Love's Light!