‘Round 2’: Eagle Jamie Cripps’ wife Liv shares update in thyroid cancer battle
The wife of West Coast Eagles star Jamie Cripps has shared an update from her hospital bed, three years after her initial cancer diagnosis.
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The wife of West Coast star Jamie Cripps has shared an update from her hospital bed after undergoing surgery for thyroid cancer.
Liv Cripps took to Instagram to share her advice to “get your lumps and bumps checked” after her second round of surgery for the cancer.
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The Cripps clan was rocked by the news of Liv’s cancer diagnosis just a week before the couple’s wedding day in 2021.
The then-26-year old posted the news of herself in a hospital bed at the time, looking frail in a hospital bed.
Now nearly three years later, Liv posted a picture of herself in a hospital gown with oxygen on.
“Round 2 and a few less lymph nodes later. This is your reminder to get those lumps n bumps checked!! #fkcancer,” she wrote.
Netball star Nat Medhurst commented: “Sending love.”
Emmi Masten, the wife of West Coast Eagles player Chris, said: “Li️v — I’m so sorry to hear this!! Sending all the love to you️.”
Jaeger O’Meara’s sister Shaeli posted: “You are so strong Livy.”
“Love you my strong brave friend,” Jack Darling’s wife Courtney wrote.
And there were countless more message sending love and support.
It’s been a long journey for the Cripps couple, who were married in October 2021.
The couple kept the diagnosis quiet, with Liv revealing she didn’t want people feeling sorry for her on one of the happiest days of her life.
“I didn’t want everyone at the wedding to be all, ‘Oh, poor Liv, I’m so sorry’,” she said in December of that year in an interview with Perth Now.
“At the age of 26, (cancer) is just the furthest thing from your mind. It was the last thing I was expecting.
“Jamie went grey, I was in shock. It was such an emotional time.”
Liv underwent an operation less than a week after her picturesque marriage in Wilyabrup, on the south-west coast of Western Australia, about a three-hour drive from Perth.
She shared the initial post to encourage others to get checked.
She only noticed something may have been wrong when she was in the shower and pressed a small lump.
Over the next few weeks, she realised it had grown and went to visit her GP.
“The lady (doing the scan) went a bit weird and it was taking forever, so I just felt like, something doesn’t feel right here,” she remembers.
“You hear the word, ‘cancer’ and you immediately think of the worst-case scenario.
“It was just a very sad time. Even telling close friends and family, that was the worst thing. I don’t think either of us could get the words out without crying.”
Thyroid cancer is the ninth most commonly diagnosed cancer in Australia and an estimated 4000 people were diagnosed with the disease in 2023.
The Cancer Council reports the five-year survival rate for thyroid cancer is 97 per cent.
Originally published as ‘Round 2’: Eagle Jamie Cripps’ wife Liv shares update in thyroid cancer battle
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