My journey towards the SolarisCare Founation began on the 19th April, 2012. Not only did this date change my life, but also that of my family, friends and workmates.

It all started with a headache that when coupled with nausea bought about a trip to the specialist and an MRI scan. Before I knew it, what had started out as a simple complaint had quickly become something that would go on to dominate our lives. The MRI revealed that I had a tumour in the right frontal lobe of my brain. We were sent straight back to the GP, where we learnt our first lesson of having Cancer, that when an offer of a tea or coffee is made, the news is never good.

Later that evening we made the first of what is a now an all too familiar trip as I was admitted to Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Nedlands. Surgery quickly followed, and then the long wait for biopsy results began. Our wait ended with the dreaded diagnosis of a stage 4 Glioblastoma Multiforme. Unaware of more suitable facilities within the hospital, my wife and I found ourselves in the hospital café with a box of tissues, tears flowing and no care for the world going on around us.

A course of radiation and oral chemo soon followed and it was while we were waiting for one of these MRIs that my wife picked up an information leaflet from SolarisCare and when by chance we walked past the centre on our way to the café my introduction to SolarisCare was complete.