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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: One person every twenty seven minutes will be told they

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Speaker 2: have blood cancer. That's a tough statistic, isn't it. This

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Speaker 2: Month of Leukemia Foundation is uniting several well known Australians,

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Speaker 2: all impact, all impacted by blood cancer, in a variety

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Speaker 2: of different ways, to share a strong and simple message,

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Speaker 2: which is you're not alone. One of the Aussies is

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Speaker 2: our dear mate, Barry Dubois is here high.

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Speaker 1: Barry, James and Amanda. And you've walked this path, you

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Speaker 1: know too well about blood. I'm walking in this path.

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Speaker 1: I live with blood cancer.

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Speaker 2: And as you don't have leukemia, what do you have?

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Speaker 1: Lukemi is for as a blood cancer. So yeah, I

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Speaker 1: have what's called it used to be called multiple myeloma.

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Speaker 1: They've changed it now to myeloma. But basically a couple

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Speaker 1: of the blood cells within my body have mutated. They're

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Speaker 1: doing the wrong thing. They're eating things they shouldn't be eating,

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Speaker 1: like my bones and my marrow and stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: Mine at the moment is pretty much under control. I

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Speaker 1: manage that with medication, as you guys know, and I

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Speaker 1: do lots of other stuff as well. The thing is

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Speaker 1: what we're trying to raise here is the fact that

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Speaker 1: fifty three strains will be diagnosed every day for blood cancer.

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Speaker 1: It's the largest cancer in the country. And when you

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Speaker 1: get cancer, you can feel very alone. It feels like

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Speaker 1: you're the only one fighting that. So what myself, Brianie

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Speaker 1: and the other ambassads are trying to do is let

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Speaker 1: you know that we're all in this together, so to speak.

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Speaker 1: And with the blood cancer dot org dot au website,

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Speaker 1: you can go there if you're being diagnosed with cancer,

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Speaker 1: if you're living with cancer, if you're a care for

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Speaker 1: a cancer, if you're grieving someone that you've lost from cancer.

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Speaker 1: There's lots of resources there to make you feel that

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Speaker 1: you've got support and we know if you've got support

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Speaker 1: as well as early detection, you're on a great trick.

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Speaker 2: I was just reading here that they're saying how sometimes

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Speaker 2: it's hard to detect there's no sort of blanket screening process.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, well, you know my story. I look

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Speaker 1: for visible the last time I when it came back

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Speaker 1: for me, and just thankfully, just thankfully that I because

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Speaker 1: I've already had cancer once, was having somewhat regular blood

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Speaker 1: checks it came up if I hadn't notice that. And

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Speaker 1: that's the thing. Early detection for this, like most cancers,

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Speaker 1: is so important. And you know, we won't go too

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Speaker 1: much into the symptoms because I'm not a doctor, but

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Speaker 1: you know I'm what you're not a doctor, you know

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Speaker 1: I could have been this is new everything else No,

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Speaker 1: but you know it could be as simple as you've

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Speaker 1: you've constantly got a headache or the sniffles. So it's

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Speaker 1: like the flu. You know, it's similar, similar symptoms, fatigue,

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Speaker 1: lack of sleep, all those sorts of things. But the

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Speaker 1: message here isn't the symptoms. It's keep an eye on

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Speaker 1: your overall health. Get in asked for the blood tests.

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Speaker 1: Don't be scared of asking for a blood test to

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Speaker 1: test all the things. You know, we should be checking

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Speaker 1: out cholesterol and stuff like that anyway. But and what

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Speaker 1: I always say, and you guys know this better than

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Speaker 1: any we're all going to have a fight one day.

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Speaker 1: We're going to jump into the ring with something at

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Speaker 1: one stage. So first and foremost, be your best self

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Speaker 1: today and be prepared for that fight. But but when

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Speaker 1: it comes to Blood cancer Awareness Month, my message is

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Speaker 1: you're not alone. There you go.

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Speaker 2: Barry's bas that's what it's about. Well, Barry, I miss you.

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Speaker 2: You and I catch up occasionally for coffee, but I

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Speaker 2: missed the living missus.

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Speaker 1: The word on the TLR gang is there.

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Speaker 2: Everyone's well. I saw Miguel yesterday, he dropped in with

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Speaker 2: his family.

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Speaker 1: Berlin.

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Speaker 2: Brownie's great. All everyone's great and we all miss each other.

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Speaker 1: Do you hang out? We still catch up?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, of course we do.

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Speaker 1: It's a long lunch, that one, is it. Well, I'm

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Speaker 1: happy to be a part of this. Yeah. We'd like

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Speaker 1: to keep it. Have we still?

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Speaker 2: When we say you're not alone, you actually can't. Contact

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Speaker 2: the Australian Blood Cancer Support Line on one eight hundred

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Speaker 2: and six two four to visit blood cancer dot org

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Speaker 2: dot are you basir?

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Speaker 1: Thank you thanks having me mate. I love you.