Port Adelaide star Jeremy Finlayson and his associate Kellie Gardner have tied the knot in a shock marriage ceremony over the weekend.
The couple had initially deliberate to get married in October however introduced the large day ahead after Gardner’s heartbreaking most cancers reveal.
While medical doctors mentioned Gardner’s stage 4 lung most cancers is terminal, the couple mentioned they weren’t about to surrender they usually proved that over the weekend.
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The pair shared the identical picture to their social media accounts with each flashing their marriage ceremony rings of their marriage ceremony apparel.
They captioned the posts “The Finlaysons”. Kellie additionally shared a publish to her Instagram story alongside her bridesmaids.
The heartwarming marriage ceremony scenes come off the again of a heartbreaking reveal that Gardner had been identified with stage 4 lung most cancers.
Gardner was identified with the lethal illness simply months after ending her remedy for bowel most cancers, which had emerged shortly after the start of their first baby Sophia in August 2021.
The pair had celebrated on the finish of the footy season after a yr of chemotherapy, radiation and surgical procedures had seen medical doctors believing that they had eliminated the most cancers and that it might not return.
But whereas enjoyable over Christmas, Kellie felt a tightening in her chest.
After ruling out Covid, the couple’s nightmare returned after a mass “a bit bigger than a tennis ball” was found in her chest cavity, having metastasised from her colon.
The household of three are nonetheless eager so as to add to their dwelling with Gardner telling Mark Soderstrom’s The Soda Room podcast they want to have one other baby.
“I would do it this year if I could, but obviously I can’t bring up a newborn right now, but, yeah, (having another baby is the goal),” Gardner mentioned.
“We’ve been going through fertility stuff. We do talk about the future a bit like trying to make Soph a sister or brother,” Finlayson mentioned.
Gardner revealed no timeline had been placed on her terminal prognosis and that it’s “all about controlling, managing that to a point that they can then do radiotherapy, possible resect”.
But Gardner additionally referred to as for all Australians to get checked out in the event that they really feel one thing uncommon of their digestive system.
“If I had got it checked,” Kellie says. “If I had got all of my tummy problems checked and not just been thinking I had a lactose intolerance like every other Joe, Dick and Harry these days. If I had got it checked.
“You hear cancer and you attach it to a 60-year-old. You don’t attach it to a 25-year-old who is quite healthy, who runs marathons and who just had a baby.
“I was a fit, young mum. You just don’t attach it to that.
“Like I was a fit young mum. You just don’t attach it to that. I was an angry woman.”
Finlayson was glowing of his associate, saying he wouldn’t have been capable of struggle and take the news like she has.
“She’s just a super human I guess,” Finlayson mentioned. “Just for someone who go through what she’s done. And then hit it head on …
“I know what I’d be doing, I’d be curled up in bed and sorry for myself, but she wants to get out there and help people and like she’s fighting for a life really.
“I’m still in denial. Me listening to her, it’s like she works for the cancer council or something. but I’ve always been in denial since she got diagnosed the first 18 months ago. I’ve been in denial and still am because we’re so young. I actually don’t know how she can do it, really.”
Source: www.news.com.au
