1 00:00:10,204 --> 00:00:13,484 Speaker 1: My Heart podcasts here, more Gold one on one point 2 00:00:13,524 --> 00:00:15,204 Speaker 1: seven podcasts. 3 00:00:14,604 --> 00:00:17,724 Speaker 2: Playlists and listen live on the free iHeart app. 4 00:00:18,564 --> 00:00:21,604 Speaker 3: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation, our. 5 00:00:21,444 --> 00:00:25,404 Speaker 1: Next guest, lights up screens around Australia every weekday on Sunrise. 6 00:00:26,444 --> 00:00:28,844 Speaker 4: But recently we've seen another side to Edwin. A buffolow you. 7 00:00:28,924 --> 00:00:31,764 Speaker 1: She shocked the country last September when she shared that 8 00:00:31,804 --> 00:00:35,484 Speaker 1: she'd been battling cancer. She's now been named Leukemia Foundation's 9 00:00:35,564 --> 00:00:39,004 Speaker 1: newest ambassador. And I'm not surprised because people love you 10 00:00:39,043 --> 00:00:40,044 Speaker 1: and want to hear your story. 11 00:00:40,164 --> 00:00:41,404 Speaker 4: Any buff follow You're high? 12 00:00:41,684 --> 00:00:44,364 Speaker 3: How like do you? It's nearly a year. 13 00:00:44,084 --> 00:00:46,204 Speaker 4: Now, how's your health going? 14 00:00:46,284 --> 00:00:48,284 Speaker 3: It's the ambassadorship that no one really wants. 15 00:00:48,324 --> 00:00:51,324 Speaker 2: Yes, I was about to say, like Harley Davidsons said 16 00:00:51,324 --> 00:00:53,804 Speaker 2: to me, we we'd like you to be an ambassador. 17 00:00:53,884 --> 00:00:56,804 Speaker 4: Yes, Prada comes to you and says, how about this. 18 00:00:56,964 --> 00:00:58,924 Speaker 5: There's no free Harley with this one, but that is 19 00:00:58,964 --> 00:01:00,764 Speaker 5: a good marketing suggestion for future. 20 00:01:00,844 --> 00:01:02,324 Speaker 3: I'm well, thank you, Amanda. 21 00:01:03,204 --> 00:01:06,164 Speaker 5: It was a year this September that I made that 22 00:01:06,204 --> 00:01:08,084 Speaker 5: announcement on Sunrise. 23 00:01:07,604 --> 00:01:09,884 Speaker 3: That i'd heard what many of you listeners would have heard. 24 00:01:10,604 --> 00:01:13,164 Speaker 5: You know, over the years you have cancer, which is 25 00:01:13,284 --> 00:01:14,484 Speaker 5: never a great thing to hear. 26 00:01:15,044 --> 00:01:17,044 Speaker 3: But I'm really well. I'm really well. 27 00:01:17,364 --> 00:01:20,684 Speaker 1: Blood cancers can be symptom free, can't they? Was that 28 00:01:20,724 --> 00:01:21,524 Speaker 1: how it was for you? 29 00:01:21,724 --> 00:01:22,844 Speaker 3: It absolutely was? 30 00:01:23,284 --> 00:01:26,084 Speaker 5: And like you, I do shift work and so when 31 00:01:26,124 --> 00:01:30,804 Speaker 5: the doctor said have you been tired? Hello, you know 32 00:01:30,924 --> 00:01:34,484 Speaker 5: that's everybody. So that's really one of the only main symptoms. 33 00:01:34,524 --> 00:01:37,884 Speaker 5: And that's why it is so ambiguous blood cancer because 34 00:01:38,244 --> 00:01:40,524 Speaker 5: it can carry on in the body for a long 35 00:01:40,604 --> 00:01:43,084 Speaker 5: time before a lot of people realize they actually have it. 36 00:01:43,484 --> 00:01:46,844 Speaker 5: I have a kind of leukemia called chronic Mylloyd leukemia. 37 00:01:46,924 --> 00:01:50,124 Speaker 5: Twenty years ago that would have been a really bad outcome. 38 00:01:50,404 --> 00:01:53,724 Speaker 5: Now it's a chronic condition thanks to a medication that 39 00:01:53,764 --> 00:01:56,404 Speaker 5: I take daily and will continue to take for many 40 00:01:56,484 --> 00:01:57,124 Speaker 5: years to come. 41 00:01:57,444 --> 00:02:00,284 Speaker 3: But no symptoms, no symptoms. 42 00:02:00,004 --> 00:02:02,444 Speaker 4: Chronic meme in this sense, it's just. 43 00:02:02,604 --> 00:02:04,924 Speaker 3: That you live with it, my chronic fatigue. 44 00:02:05,404 --> 00:02:07,484 Speaker 1: I took a lot from what you said because you 45 00:02:07,644 --> 00:02:10,004 Speaker 1: said it was awake cup. Call to all of us 46 00:02:10,084 --> 00:02:12,883 Speaker 1: when our doctor suggests we get blood tests and those 47 00:02:12,924 --> 00:02:16,484 Speaker 1: little referrals just sit in your bag. I've got so 48 00:02:16,603 --> 00:02:18,044 Speaker 1: many of those just sitting there. 49 00:02:18,084 --> 00:02:20,003 Speaker 4: So you don't go and do that no I do. 50 00:02:20,404 --> 00:02:22,923 Speaker 4: I've started to, but I really took note. 51 00:02:22,964 --> 00:02:26,164 Speaker 1: I think what you said will palpably change how people 52 00:02:26,244 --> 00:02:28,523 Speaker 1: do that because you get that stuff you think I'll 53 00:02:28,524 --> 00:02:30,323 Speaker 1: get round to that just sits in your bag. 54 00:02:30,483 --> 00:02:33,124 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, there's just this stuff. And it's all on 55 00:02:33,163 --> 00:02:34,244 Speaker 3: social media too, right. 56 00:02:34,284 --> 00:02:36,484 Speaker 5: It's like, oh, I should be just you know, having 57 00:02:36,524 --> 00:02:38,643 Speaker 5: a lemon at breakfast, and then I should be drinking 58 00:02:38,644 --> 00:02:40,364 Speaker 5: olive oil, and then I should be doing. 59 00:02:40,204 --> 00:02:41,004 Speaker 3: This and this and this. 60 00:02:41,084 --> 00:02:42,924 Speaker 4: You know, its. 61 00:02:42,404 --> 00:02:46,124 Speaker 3: Exhausting, but it's a really simple message. Just get a 62 00:02:46,124 --> 00:02:46,523 Speaker 3: health check. 63 00:02:47,124 --> 00:02:49,243 Speaker 1: And we are the lucky ones who get to get 64 00:02:49,244 --> 00:02:51,244 Speaker 1: the message because this happened to somebody else. 65 00:02:51,324 --> 00:02:52,444 Speaker 3: Yep. Yeah yeah. 66 00:02:52,483 --> 00:02:55,764 Speaker 5: And I could have walked into that doctor and they 67 00:02:55,764 --> 00:02:58,844 Speaker 5: could have told me anything, And that is not lost 68 00:02:58,884 --> 00:03:02,764 Speaker 5: on me how fortunate I've been when they called me 69 00:03:02,803 --> 00:03:05,884 Speaker 5: and said you should come in today and bring someone 70 00:03:05,964 --> 00:03:11,124 Speaker 5: with you. But they could have told me absolutely anything 71 00:03:11,204 --> 00:03:13,444 Speaker 5: about the kind of cancer I had. 72 00:03:14,204 --> 00:03:15,764 Speaker 3: You know how long I had to live. 73 00:03:15,884 --> 00:03:18,923 Speaker 5: That's your sliding the office, Yeah, and sort out your 74 00:03:18,923 --> 00:03:22,404 Speaker 5: affairs and fact. As we left the hospital seeing the specialist, 75 00:03:22,884 --> 00:03:25,564 Speaker 5: my husband said to me, you've been kicked in the 76 00:03:25,644 --> 00:03:27,964 Speaker 5: arse with a rainbow, and I said, you know what 77 00:03:28,324 --> 00:03:34,004 Speaker 5: I have because I'm so so lucky and so yeah, 78 00:03:34,043 --> 00:03:36,884 Speaker 5: that was a big reason behind me now wanting to 79 00:03:37,524 --> 00:03:39,484 Speaker 5: to use this platform to chat to your listeners, to 80 00:03:39,564 --> 00:03:42,964 Speaker 5: chat to Sunrise viewers and be able to say to them, 81 00:03:43,524 --> 00:03:46,684 Speaker 5: you know, just a simple message could really change your 82 00:03:46,684 --> 00:03:48,044 Speaker 5: life or save your life. 83 00:03:48,124 --> 00:03:53,644 Speaker 4: Your husband should be writing country song greeting cards job 84 00:03:53,684 --> 00:03:54,164 Speaker 4: at Hallmark. 85 00:03:54,284 --> 00:03:57,844 Speaker 2: Well, Eddie, you're doing a great job. Blood Cancer Month, 86 00:03:57,844 --> 00:04:00,924 Speaker 2: the Lukemia Foundation is urging Australians to get informed and 87 00:04:01,004 --> 00:04:03,964 Speaker 2: help support girls and women impacted by blood cancer by 88 00:04:04,044 --> 00:04:07,523 Speaker 2: visiting Leukemia dot org dot au. And here's perhaps a 89 00:04:07,684 --> 00:04:10,684 Speaker 2: jet ski and besst ship coming your way. You got 90 00:04:10,684 --> 00:04:13,404 Speaker 2: someone from se do Come on, Eddie, you would love 91 00:04:13,404 --> 00:04:14,044 Speaker 2: a jet ski. 92 00:04:14,924 --> 00:04:17,884 Speaker 5: Come on, absolutely, I'll take the jet ski with the 93 00:04:17,924 --> 00:04:20,204 Speaker 5: place from a Pridor handbag and that. 94 00:04:22,404 --> 00:04:23,724 Speaker 3: I think that should be fair enough. 95 00:04:24,524 --> 00:04:25,844 Speaker 2: Eddie, thank you for joining us. 96 00:04:26,044 --> 00:04:27,964 Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me by the way. 97 00:04:28,204 --> 00:04:31,443 Speaker 5: Very happy you guys are moving to drive now early 98 00:04:31,524 --> 00:04:33,324 Speaker 5: riser like me can actually listen to you in the 99 00:04:33,444 --> 00:04:33,884 Speaker 5: It's true. 100 00:04:34,244 --> 00:04:36,964 Speaker 2: Actually, Eddie, will you come over with us to the 101 00:04:37,004 --> 00:04:42,484 Speaker 2: Fruited Plains to afternoon? Ready, look there, there's Amanda, there's 102 00:04:42,524 --> 00:04:44,204 Speaker 2: me running around the. 103 00:04:44,124 --> 00:04:46,644 Speaker 4: Sun is setting your land of milk and honey. 104 00:04:47,604 --> 00:04:50,084 Speaker 2: Honey, that's beautiful green grass. 105 00:04:51,084 --> 00:04:54,444 Speaker 1: Jet ski jetski goes past, splashes you ever so so 106 00:04:55,204 --> 00:04:57,124 Speaker 1: coming out of her bottom. 107 00:04:57,964 --> 00:04:59,764 Speaker 3: Eddie, thank you.