Breast cancer journey taught Tabby Fudge to breath deeper, sing louder and embrace life
IN the past year, Tabby Fudge has learned to breathe deeper, sing louder and embrace life with more passion
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IN the past year, Tabby Fudge has learned to breathe deeper, sing louder and embrace life with more passion.
She says surviving a tough case of breast cancer will do that to a person.
The president of the NT Council of Government School Organisations recently returned to work after being diagnosed with cancer last Easter and enduring five months of chemotherapy.
“I was super lucky I had a complete response to the chemo,” Ms Fudge said.
“Initially it was a really hard because all I was concerned about was my children.
“But I met some amazing people at the Alan Walker (Cancer) Centre they are so professional, so caring and, just inspirational.
“It actually, oddly enough, turned out to be a really positive experience, which sounds so counterintuitive but it really was.
“Sure this journey has had its crappy bits but you get through it, you get on with it and you come out the other side of it with a smile on your face.”
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Ms Fudge said she was eager to get back to her work after volunteering with the NT Council of Government School Organisations for almost a decade.
“Volunteering may not be the most lucrative of careers but it’s so satisfying,” she said.
“We keep chipping away, we have our wins and that’s what makes it all worthwhile.”
Ms Fudge said one of the most pressing issues in the NT’s remote classrooms was the rate of kids experiencing otitis media, an infection of the middle ear.
“Out in our remote communities a lot of people don’t know that know up to 85 per cent of our children simply can’t hear,” she said.
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“Otitis media is such a huge problem. People talk about our children not wanting to attend school.
“If English is a third or fourth language, and you can’t hear, how motivated are you going to be to go to school if you feel like you can’t participate or even worse feel like you’re stupid?
“It’s a huge issue but it’s just so it could be so simply fixed.”
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