14/02/2026
Dear Cancer,
I hate you.
You arrive uninvited and you never leave cleanly. You dig in, you linger, and you change everything.
You steal time first… then sleep, peace, and stability.
You take normal life and replace it with hospital rooms, blood results, waiting games, and words families never wanted to learn.
And just when scans improve and hope quietly creeps back in — you let us breathe.
You let us believe.
Then you come back and kill the dream instead.
You don’t just attack bodies.
You attack futures.
You force strength onto children who never volunteered for a fight.
Talen is seven.
Seven.
He should be worried about school and footy, not chemo drugs and procedures. Yet he keeps fighting battles most adults would crumble under.
He wears courage like it’s normal. Like this is just another day.
It’s not.
And it’s not only the child in treatment whose world shifts.
Siblings feel it too.
They didn’t get cancer, but their childhood still changes.
They fall asleep without routines.
They adjust.
They shrink themselves so someone else can survive.
Not because they’re loved less.
But because survival comes first.
Cancer, you vandalise lives. You hollow out families. You take until there’s nothing left to give.
Moments in Motion will remain closed while I focus on Talen and our family. The road ahead is now extremely uncertain, long and we don't know what we are in for. I thank you all for being so understanding, patient and the messages checking in 🤍
❤️
