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Speaker 1: Bussy and he with Kate Richie.

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Speaker 2: This is an interesting story. Nicole Austin is her name.

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Speaker 2: She's a young mum. She's got two beautiful daughters live

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Speaker 2: and eleven month old.

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Speaker 1: Bowie ohe beautiful Bowie.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, she's got a partner, Christie as well. Now, Bowie

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Speaker 2: was born eleven months ago, like I just said, and

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Speaker 2: she was premature. Kate twenty three weeks old, one hundred

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Speaker 2: and thirty days they spent in hospital. But while they

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Speaker 2: were in there, Nicole found out that she's got stage

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Speaker 2: four metastic carcinoma that originated in her ovaries and has

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Speaker 2: now spread to her lungs, her liver, and her lymph nodes.

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Speaker 2: So it's pretty full on. She's lost a lot of weight,

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Speaker 2: and little Bowie was diagnosed with chronic lung disease recently

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Speaker 2: as well. She requires regular hospital visits. This family is

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Speaker 2: going through hell of them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think it's all happening for Nicole, and I don't

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Speaker 1: think her last round of chemo was successful.

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Speaker 2: We just want to give them a call and just

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Speaker 2: say that we've got you back. Can we give Nicole

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Speaker 2: a call? Is that the beautiful Nicole there? How are

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Speaker 2: you going it's Fitzy and Kate Richie here. You've got

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Speaker 2: no idea why we're calling, but we just read your

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Speaker 2: story and got a little bit emotional. Nicole, how are

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Speaker 2: you feeling at the moment, Love, Oh.

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Speaker 3: I'm in a bit of shock at the moment actually,

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Speaker 3: but look in terms of how the cancer is going on,

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Speaker 3: feeling okay, it's been pretty rough after this last.

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Speaker 4: Round a chemo.

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Speaker 1: Firstly, firstly, tell us about your two divine daughters.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so my two beautiful daughters are you know, absolutely

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Speaker 3: the motivation why we keep fighting on.

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Speaker 4: Through this cancer.

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Speaker 3: Lives two and a half and she's just divine.

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Speaker 4: She's such a sweet, sweet little soul.

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Speaker 3: And then we've got Bowie, who turns one in less

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Speaker 3: than a month. And yeah, as you would probably have read,

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Speaker 3: her entry to the world has been a bit of

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Speaker 3: a journey.

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Speaker 2: Does live suspect that anything's wrong with mummy?

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Speaker 4: Kids?

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Speaker 2: Can they have like a sixth sense like this? Does

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Speaker 2: she notice anything at all with mum?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, she definitely does.

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Speaker 3: And she knows mummy's got a saw belly yep, which

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Speaker 3: is a bit sad. She knows that mummy sleeps a

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Speaker 3: lot and that's a bit hard. Sorry, that's okay, knowing that, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: at such a young age, she knows something's wrong. We're

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Speaker 3: very honest with her and we just tell her that,

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Speaker 3: you know, mummy goes to the doctor and the doctor's

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Speaker 3: making mummy better.

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Speaker 2: How was the last treatment, Nika, we heard, I mean

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Speaker 2: that didn't work because you've got an infection. So is

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Speaker 2: it knocking you around a little bit at the moment.

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Speaker 3: I had a reaction to the previous treatment. So the

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Speaker 3: last treatment they changed.

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Speaker 4: Up my drugs.

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Speaker 3: The tough things about chemo now is I have to

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Speaker 3: have my hands and feet wrapped in ice packs for

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Speaker 3: three hours because it can cause my toenails and fingernails

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Speaker 3: to fall off.

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Speaker 1: Well, oh my goodness. See these are the things he

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Speaker 1: just staten Idea.

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Speaker 4: You know, we're staying really really positive.

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Speaker 1: I know that you're a worker. I mean, tell us

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Speaker 1: about your career.

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Speaker 3: So I currently work at the New South I was

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Speaker 3: ikak as an investigator and absolutely love my job and.

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Speaker 4: They've been amazing and super supportive.

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Speaker 3: But prior to that, I was ten years in the

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Speaker 3: police and so I just love helping others and helping

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Speaker 3: the community and the support we've had from friends, family,

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Speaker 3: the community and people we don't even know through our

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Speaker 3: go fund me page has just been overwhelming.

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Speaker 2: What have they told you in regards to the fantastic carcinoma?

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Speaker 2: And you know, how long and treatment wise? Can they

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Speaker 2: give you dates? Can they do any of that or not?

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Speaker 3: At this stage. I think it's still so early in

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Speaker 3: my journey. They did mention it's incurable, but they can

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Speaker 3: control it.

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Speaker 4: Exactly what that means, We're not even too sure.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, we just tend to live in the moment

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Speaker 3: and take it day by day and try not to

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Speaker 3: concern ourselves too much with the future because it's just

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Speaker 3: so unknown and we know things can just change so rapidly.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So financially, how you're going, Nick, because I know you

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Speaker 2: know not working now as well? How hard has it

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Speaker 2: been on the family?

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Speaker 3: That is one thing that I do kind of look

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Speaker 3: to the future and worry about. And we're just doing

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Speaker 3: everything we can at the moment to try and save

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Speaker 3: as much money.

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Speaker 4: And try and plan and make sure we're.

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Speaker 3: Okay for the future. But it's such an uncertain kind

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Speaker 3: of element.

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Speaker 4: Of our life.

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Speaker 2: Oh, Nick, you know what your story touched us so

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Speaker 2: much and you faced some struggles that you know, no

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Speaker 2: one should ever go through with your family. And we

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Speaker 2: got together here at Nova and we just wanted to

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Speaker 2: tell you love that we've got your back, and we

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Speaker 2: just want to let you know that we want to

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Speaker 2: give you ten thousand dollars that will go towards the

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Speaker 2: family and also some alternative methods as well that I

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Speaker 2: know that you're exploring at the moment, but we just

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Speaker 2: want to look after you guys for a little bit

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Speaker 2: so you can feel a little bit more comfortable.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just take a bit of the pressure off.

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Speaker 5: That's just so amazing. And yeah, we can't thank you

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Speaker 5: enough on behalf with my whole family. Yeah, thank you

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Speaker 5: so much. It's just such a beautiful thing that you've done.

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Speaker 2: What would that ten thousand dollars mean to you at

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Speaker 2: the moment? Live?

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Speaker 3: Oh, it just gives us that little bit of extra

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Speaker 3: breathing room and you know, a sense of security for

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Speaker 3: a little bit longer and in such uncertain terms, Just

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Speaker 3: any little bit of security, Yeah, it goes a long way,

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Speaker 3: and you know it takes away some sleepless nights.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely.

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Speaker 2: We also want to give you five hundred dollars that

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Speaker 2: you can buy some brand new toys for liv and

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Speaker 2: Bowie and lighten up their faces as well, because I

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Speaker 2: know this is a family effort for you.

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Speaker 1: It's not just about you, is it. You've got to

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Speaker 1: you know, you've had challenges, so many challenges along the

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Speaker 1: way with little Bowie as well, so we hope that

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Speaker 1: that money can kind of just just make things a

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Speaker 1: little bit easier.

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Speaker 6: Oh that's just amazing, because yeah, it is about my

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Speaker 6: family and keeping my little girls happy and away from

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Speaker 6: the cancer as much as possible is really important.

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Speaker 2: You stay strong for us, Nicole, because your positivity. You're

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Speaker 2: an inspiration to a lot of families what you're doing

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Speaker 2: right now and to keep a smile in those little girls' lives.

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Speaker 2: You're doing an amazing job and we'll always be here

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Speaker 2: for you. We've got you back, and good luck with everything, Nicole.

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Speaker 1: I just want to give you a hard girlfriend.

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Speaker 4: So much.

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Speaker 3: Thank you to the whole NOV team and everyone that's

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Speaker 3: behind the scenes and who organize this. So really yeah,

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Speaker 3: I'm just so overwhelmed and so appreciative.

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Speaker 1: It's hard enough to be mum sometimes on the best

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Speaker 1: of days, just getting up and packing lunches and getting

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Speaker 1: kids to school and getting out of bed. But you've

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Speaker 1: got everything stacked against you, and you're like that beautiful

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Speaker 1: face that we're seeing and talking to right now. Those

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Speaker 1: girls adore you, your partner adores you, and we just

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Speaker 1: hope that we've made things just a little bit better.

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Speaker 4: No, absolutely, thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Nicole, look after yourself, stay strong, and we'll check

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Speaker 2: in with you very soon. Okay, good luck.

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Speaker 4: Thanks so much, guys.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Nicole, take care with that.

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Speaker 4: With Kate Richie Nova