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August 30 - September 12, 2017 OCEAN GROVE’S NUMBER ONE NEWSPAPER
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Ollie, Teddy, Amelia and Harry Banks want to raise awareness for brain cancer. They are proudly wearing their Beanies for Brain Cancer. 172173
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Fight of her life By Justin Flynn AMELIA Banks was diagnosed with brain cancer five years ago. Two major surgeries later and an oncologist who told her to get her affairs in order, and Amelia is still here, still fighting and still moving forward.
The 35-year-old Ocean Grove mother of two was living in Perth with her husband Ollie and 35 weeks pregnant when she was told the bad news. She started feeling weak on the right side of her body, which prompted her to visit her GP and that’s when a tumour was found in her brain.
“I can’t sit down and wallow in self pity - I have a life to live and need to show my kids that life is worth living,” Amelia said. Amelia’s oncologist told her to get her will in order and “not to go out and get another mortgage”. The family including sons Harry, 6, and Teddy, 4
- left WA and moved back to Amelia’s native Ocean Grove. Five years after being diagnosed, she is still here and still fighting. “It’s not a sob story, it’s a crappy story, but you have to make the best of it,” she said. “We want the kids to know that life
is worth living.” “We chose to live in hope, not in fear,” Ollie said. Amelia and her family will walk in the Walk 4 Brain Cancer event in Melbourne on 12 November. Continued on page 3
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