Adam, Caitlin and the couple’s two children.
The British Adam Gravely, 38 years old, and his Australian wife Caitlyn, 39, has launched an anguished appeal for help. The couple face the harsh prospect of leaving their children orphaned after both are diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Adam and Caitlin, who live in the Australian city of Perth, were diagnosed with cancer just three months after their respective medical opinions. Since then, her primary concern has been securing a future for her young children Thea and Fearn.
Adam is now 38 and his partner is 39 and love has made them both live in Perth, along with their little ones. The story, which was known in March, has gone viral in recent weeks.
Adam and Caitlin fight cancer in Australia.
As they crossed the same path, the couple had a happy and healthy life, until the woman was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer after giving birth to her second child in October 2020.
There, Fearn, the couple’s second child, was born. A contradictory situation, on the one hand they were happy with the birth and on the other the news of Caitlin’s terminal cancer took away all hope.
Caitlin, with Adam and one of the couple’s children.
At first, Caitlin thought the pain was due to her recent birth. However, after having a colonoscopy, they confirmed that it was a terminal illness, as bowel cancer had spread to the liver.
But the last straw came when, just three months later, in February, the man was also diagnosed with an a terminal pancreatic cancer. A completely random assessment, because Adam went to the doctor believing he had a stomach ulcer, caused by the stress of his wife’s illness.
Caitlin is currently having her tumor removed and is undergoing chemotherapy to try to clear the metastases in her liver. While Adam began an extremely aggressive experimental treatment.
The two met through an online date.
The family wants to use their story to raise awareness of aggressive cancers that start in those under 40 and, with it, encourage people to get screened earlier.
Meanwhile, everyone is hoping the treatment will work: “We hope and pray every day that the treatment they receive works and that they are years rather than months,” says Adam’s sister Emma Reynolds.
More troubling for the couple, however, is the fear that their young children Thea, three, and Fearn, one year and four months, will be orphaned.
Adam and Caitlin, with their children.
All their family, friends and the Perth community came together to help the couple. “People pack food, they cook things, they have people who pay for cleaning, people who offer to help with the kids,” says Adam’s sister Emma.
They also created a website, in which they have already received $ 50,000 to help pay for his treatment and so that Adam’s mother, who lives in England, can visit him and accompany him in his fight against cancer.
Source: Clarin
