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OUT THE OTHER SIDE
S TO R I E S O F
BREAST CANCER
S U R V I VA L
OUT THE OTHER SIDE
STORIES OF BREAST CANCER SURVIVAL
‘Out the Other Side: Stories of Breast Cancer Survival’ is a
collection of individual real–life stories of women who have survived
breast cancer. It is designed to offer hope and support to other
survivors or women living with the disease in Ireland.
All of the women featured are living proof that it is possible not
only to come out the other side of a breast cancer diagnosis, but to
thrive and grow after it.
Each story comprises three elements: a shared personal
experience of surviving breast cancer; a photograph of each survivor
as they are today; and a photograph shared by these women that
they feel represents their ‘survivorship milestone’, essentially, what
surviving breast cancer has meant for each of these women.
You will read stories of elation and anti-climax, which are happy
and sad, funny and irreverent, and filled with confusion, guilt and
gratitude. But they are all real. Because just like breast cancer, we
know that no survivor’s journey is the same.
Our hope is that this campaign and the stories shared will be a
source of comfort and hope to women at various stages of their
cancer journey. We hope they will encourage others to seek help
and support to understand how cancer may have affected them
and give them the tools to rebuild and enjoy their lives.
ASHLEY COFFEY, 42
BREAST CANCER
SURVIVOR SINCE 2005
Ashley was diagnosed
in 2005. She had a
lumpectomy 10 days before
Christmas and a repeat
surgery in January 2006.
She started chemotherapy
in March 2006, followed
by radiation treatment and
brachytherapy. Nine years
later, she was diagnosed
with a second primary
breast cancer tumour. She
underwent a mastectomy
and chemotherapy.
My life was kick-started when my breast It was fantastic. I landed in Dublin from Dubai
cancer came back nine years after my first the night before my last chemo session.
diagnosis. I wasn’t going to sit around and
I got cancer but I definitely got the travel
let cancer consume me. If it wanted me, it bug as well.
could chase me.
My children were and still are my driving
I started a countdown to chemo force. When my treatment was over, my
challenge and tried to fit in as many things youngest son and I went on a celebration
as possible before chemo
trip to the US because he
“THESE
DAYS,
INSTEAD
started. I never travelled
had gone through this
as much as I would have
journey with me. We had
OF PUTTING BARRIERS
liked to so, with my family
a special sleepover at the
IN MY WAY, I KNOCK
and friends, I just started
Natural History Museum in
throwing darts at a map and
New York, with nothing but
THEM DOWN. I AM
off we’d go. Ryanair became
a torch and sleeping bags
CREATING LOADS OF
our best friend. We went
and about 30 other people.
MEMORIES FOR MYSELF
to Barcelona, Amsterdam,
We got to run through the
Marrakesh and Portugal.
AND FOR MY CHILDREN.” halls in the middle of the
And, because I wasn’t
night looking for Dum Dum
physically unwell during the
and we got to sleep under
treatment, the countdown to
that famous big blue whale
chemo challenge continued
in the lobby. It was a once
right through chemotherapy.
in a lifetime experience.
I’d get a heparin flush every
I’ve learned that life is
three weeks and then I was
a memory box. Nobody
off. Immersing myself in
knows what’s around the
foreign cultures kept me
corner.
focused and upbeat.
My advice to others
I went to the see The
would be, find something
Cure in London, which was a
that floats your boat.
big treat for a former CureDon’t put things off. We are
head. I went to Rome with my son.
responsible for our own happiness. It took
As the chemotherapy was coming to an me a long time to see that. I always thought
end, I asked my consultant if I could go to you needed to be part of a double act but
Dubai before my last session. He took some I learned that other people are not going
persuading, but I promised I’d stop off in to make you happy.
Istanbul for a few days to break up the trip.
I’m standing strong and I’m happy.
BERNIE WALSH, 55
BREAST CANCER
SURVIVOR SINCE 2012
Bernie was diagnosed
in November 2012.
She underwent two
lumpectomy surgeries
and eight weeks of
chemotherapy, followed
by 12 weeks of a second
chemotherapy regimen.
A severe reaction
to this saw her spend
over a week in ICU.
The chemotherapy
was cancelled and she
moved to hormone
therapy and seven
weeks of radiotherapy.
She finished her treatment
in September 2013.
Standing on the stage on the opening
A few weeks before that, just as my
night of Jesus Christ Superstar, that was radiotherapy was ending, I did a flash
when I knew I had made it
mob
performance
in
“IT
TOOK
CANCER
through breast cancer.
Leopardstown racecourse
When I first felt the
with 100 other people.
TO GIVE ME A KICK UP
lump, I knew in my heart
It was my first time out in
THE BACKSIDE,
what it was, but when they
public without my hat or
TO SAY ‘GET UP AND
told me that it actually
my wig.
was breast cancer, my first
I’m not going to be afraid
LIVE YOUR LIFE’.”
reaction was terror. My mind
to do things anymore. I’m
went into overdrive. I didn’t
just going to do them.
know what to think or what
My advice to anyone
to feel.
would be to grab life
I’ve been involved with
with both hands and run
the Coolmine Music Society
with it. Don’t be afraid of
for more than 16 years. I was
challenges. If you don’t
chairperson of the society
take on new challenges,
when I got my diagnosis
you’ll never know if you can
and I was determined to
succeed.
keep up my involvement.
A year that started
Unfortunately, a bad reacout awful, ended up being
tion
to
chemotherapy
amazing for me. Cancer
meant I had to resign half
changed me but it changed
way through my treatment.
me for the better. I wanted
But almost a year to
to live because I have two
the day after my diagnosis,
great kids and I want to
I was standing on that
be around them for a long
stage in Jesus Christ Superstar – one of my time. I cherish every day now. I wake up
favourite musicals. There was such a sense every morning and I am genuinely thankful
of achievement and a real buzz.
that I am still here.
DEIRDRE
FEATHERSTONE, 50
BREAST CANCER
SURVIVOR SINCE 2012
Deirdre was sent to
hospital by her GP in
September 2012 for
a tummy problem.
Before the end of that
week she had been
diagnosed with
breast cancer. She had
eight months of
chemotherapy, followed
by a mastectomy and six
weeks of radiotherapy.
Deirdre opted for
reconstructive surgery
and had what she hopes
is her last surgery last
month. Her blog is
www.kickingtheshiteout
ofcancer.com
I was determined that I was going to there – people who had had cancer or
kick the shite out of cancer, so it was the were just starting out on that road, people
perfect title for my blog. I started www. who had lost someone to cancer, people
kickingtheshiteoutofcancer.com when I was who had been touched by cancer in some
diagnosed in September 2012. It has been way. It was liberating and empowering and
really therapeutic for me. And it has over a magical. And we raised €24,000 to boot.
quarter of a million views,
It has now become an
“TAKE CHANCES IN LIFE.
which is pretty amazing.
annual event. It’s always
When they told me that I
an amazing feeling. It’s a
TAKE RISKS. DO A NIKE
had breast cancer and that
celebration and a rememON IT – JUST DO IT.
I would need chemotherapy,
brance, and lots of fun.
radiotherapy and surgery,
To date we have raised
DO IT BECAUSE YOU
I thought ‘OK, I’m going to
over €70,000 for children’s
MIGHT
NOT
GET
be sick for the next year.
cancer. For me, that’s a
It can either be crap or I
great achievement in my life
ANOTHER CHANCE.”
can make something of it.’
and I wouldn’t have been
So I started writing the blog.
able to do it without my
I’ve made some amazing
wonderfully cool ‘Dipper’
friends through it. We’ve
friends.
supported each other and
I came through cancer
we’ve been able to support
with a different attitude.
people who are starting off
The lesson I learned is:
on the journey. Some nights
Get rid of all the negative
we’re all still gabbing away
people in your life and
at 4am, unable to sleep for
surround yourself with the
the medication.
positives.
In June 2013 we had
Having cancer turned
our first ‘Strip and Dip’.
out to be a very special
To raise money for two little
time in my life. When you’re
girls with cancer, about 80
sick you’re stripped back
women got together, stripped naked and to who you really are. There’s a real honesty
ran into the Irish Sea at Magheramore about people, and everyone is in the same
Beach in Wicklow. I had one boob and no boat. It’s amazing the friendships you make.
hair but I wasn’t the only boobless one Having those friendships made cancer less
there. There were all kinds of body shapes scary and made the journey less lonely.
DEIRDRE
MORRISSEY, 40
BREAST CANCER
SURVIVOR SINCE 2011
Deirdre was diagnosed
in December 2011 at the
age of 36. At the time
her daughters were
aged 5 and 2. She had
a mastectomy on
December 23rd and
was discharged from
hospital on Christmas Eve.
She started chemotherapy
in January and went on
to have six weeks
of radiotherapy.
Once I started chemotherapy, I became with people again my outlook started to
very depressed and withdrawn. I cut myself change.
off from everybody with the exception of
A few weeks after finishing treatment,
my husband and children. I wouldn’t even I went to see Leonard Cohen in Kilmainham
drop my kids to school
with my husband and a
“IT’S ALL ABOUT THE
because I didn’t want anygroup of friends. I’d bought
one asking me how I was
new clothes, and there we
KIDS. AS LONG AS I’M
doing. I couldn’t find the
were, sitting on the grass in
HERE TO SEE THEM
good in anything. Nothing
Kilmainham on a beautiful
GROW UP, THAT’S
gave me joy. I would go to
summer’s evening. It was
bed at 8pm with the kids
fantastic. I even had three
ENOUGH FOR ME.”
so that I could say another
glasses of wine which I
day was over and I could
hadn’t been able to do in
mark it off the calendar.
about 10 months. I woke up
People were trying to make
with my first hangover in
me laugh but I had nothing
a long, long time and it
to laugh about, so I just cut
felt great.
family and friends out of
We have a great life
my life.
now. Now I feel like a
It took a good six months
survivor. I never thought
before I started to think that
I’d be able to say that.
maybe I would come out the
It’s a long road and there
other end of this. I started
are buckets of tears along
to feel that this horrible
the way but I can’t believe
nightmare would finish the
my life now compared to
day I finished radiotherapy.
three years ago. I never
And it did.
thought I’d be happy again.
That day I sent out a flood
I have no ambition to
of texts to all the people who
climb Mount Everest or run
had been trying to support me through a marathon or anything like that. I’m at my
it all but who I had blocked out. I wanted happiest on a Friday night, sitting on the
to meet each of them as soon as possible. couch watching the Late Late Show with a
Once I started going out and meeting up glass of vino.
JACKIE CONLAN, 51
BREAST CANCER
SURVIVOR SINCE 1989
Jackie was originally
diagnosed with breast
cancer at the age of 24.
She was diagnosed with
a second tumour 11 years
later. Genetic testing
revealed that she carried
the BRCA gene mutation
which confers an increased
risk of breast and ovarian
cancer. Jackie has had
her breasts, ovaries
and womb removed.
One of my favourite quotes is from the Maynooth University. I’ll never forget that
movie The Shawshank Redemption, “get first day walking across the footbridge.
busy living or get busy dying”. I’m definitely I just stood there in the middle of the
the get busy living kind.
bridge, looking down at the traffic for about
When I was diagnosed with breast 10 minutes.
cancer in 1989 I was 24 and my daughter
At graduation in 2010, my name was
was just 7 months old. I had
called out as the highest
“AFTER BREAST CANCER,
chemotherapy followed by
achieving student of my
PEOPLE LIVE
radiotherapy and despite the
year. I remember accepting
odds, I went on to have two
the award and I genuinely
A DIFFERENT WAY
more wonderful children.
appreciated it and what
BUT A FREER WAY.
During a routine check-up in
it represented. I was off2000, they found a second
ered the John Hume ScholI GIVE MYSELF THE
tumour in the other breast.
arship to pursue a PhD
FREEDOM
TO
LIVE.
On genetic testing it turned
and I was so thrilled and
out that I carry the BRCA
honoured to be offered this
I’M OPEN TO ANYTHING.
gene. Three of my six sisters
prestigious prize.
IF I CAN FIT IT IN MY
have also had breast cancer.
In August, I did the
DIARY, I’M GAME.”
I have had my breasts and
Camino de Santiago in
ovaries removed, as well as a
Northern Spain with my
full hysterectomy – the same
two daughters and one of
as Angelina Jolie, so I’m in
my best friends. We walked
the cool gang now.
25Km every day carrying
For many years, on my
a backpack so you had
way to work, I would drive
to consider very carefully
under the footbridge that
what to bring. When I was
connected the north campus
packing to go, the question
of Maynooth College to the
was, ‘do I bring the boobs?
south campus. I’d watch the
Do I value them enough to
students crossing and be so
put them in the backpack
envious. I always wanted to go to college and lug them around for 25Km every day’?
but being the youngest of 11 children, it just The answer was no.
wasn’t an option when I left school.
Breast cancer is something that
After my second diagnosis, I took some happened to me but that’s all. It doesn’t
time off work and at 44 years of age, define me. I choose to get busy living and
I started studying sociology and history at I can’t wait for the next adventure.
LESLEY BERNEY, 41
BREAST CANCER
SURVIVOR SINCE 2002
Lesley found a lump
in her breast while taking
a shower in August 2002.
Following a lumpectomy,
she was diagnosed with
breast cancer. She was
one of only three women
in the country under 30
diagnosed with breast
cancer that year. Two weeks
after the lumpectomy, she
had a partial mastectomy.
The surgery coincided
with her 3rd wedding
anniversary. She received six
months of chemotherapy
followed by radiotherapy.
Lesley is currently in
the second year of a
psychology degree at DCU
and hopes to eventually
work in the field
of child psychology.
I believe everything happens for a reason
understatement. It was a lightbulb moment.
and I believe cancer gave me my life back.
I’m a foster mum now. It’s been an
In 2002, when I was 28,
incredibly rewarding journey,
“BEING A FOSTER MUM
I went to my GP because
we’ve had 12 kids through
IS MY JOB NOW AND
we were having difficulty
this house in the last four
getting pregnant. As I was
years. I have two full-time
IT’S THE BEST JOB IN
leaving, as sort of an aftergirls at the moment and a
THE WORLD. MY JOB
thought, I asked him to
little lady with autism who
IS TO ADVOCATE FOR
check a lump I’d found in
comes to stay with us
my breast. A few weeks later
every second weekend and
THESE KIDS AND DO
I was seen at the breast clinic
has done for the past four
WHAT’S IN THEIR BEST
and I was told it was nothing
years. Our home is their
INTEREST. I BELIEVE
to worry about. I literally
home and I’ve loved every
cried with relief. But a few
second of it.
THAT IF I HADN’T
days later I got a call to say
I always knew I wasn’t
GOTTEN CANCER,
the consultant had reviewed
going to die. Even if the
THAT WOULDN’T
my file and wanted me back
universe wanted me to die,
in. I had a lumpectomy on
I wasn’t going to. I don’t
HAVE HAPPENED.”
September 5th and on
do anything I don’t want
September 10th, I was told
to. But I still had to see
that the lump was cancer.
my consultant regularly for
I was a typical Celtic Tiger
check-ups. For the last five
cub - very career-driven, lots
years it’s been once a year.
of business travel. You get
Last year he signed me
caught up in the rat race.
off. He said: “Lesley, we’re
I lost sight of what was
breaking up. It’s not you
important. Cancer made me
it’s me.”
stand still and just breathe. To say
I thank cancer for showing me what’s
cancer completely changed my life is an
important.
LORRAINE
REDMOND, 47
BREAST CANCER
SURVIVOR SINCE 2014
Lorraine was diagnosed
in May 2014 as part of a
programme provided by her
employers Marks & Spencer
which invites all female
employees over 40 to have
a mammogram every two
years. She underwent a
lumpectomy, three months
of chemotherapy and two
months of radiotherapy.
She finished treatment on
December 15th – the day
before her 47th birthday.
Cancer isn’t fun. It was a horrible year. might be the sensible thing to do, but it’s not
But it did change me and make me a better really much fun. We don’t need to put
person I believe.
€1,000s into a house that’s going to be left
I was diagnosed through a
behind us. Having a nice
“CANCER HAS TAUGHT
routine mammogram. There
car or a nice house isn’t
ME THAT LIFE IS FOR
was no lump to feel, so I was
half as much fun as rolling
completely
shell-shocked.
down the hill in the park
LIVING. IT WOKE ME UP
The doctors told me the
with your grandkids. I’m the
TO THE FACT THAT LIFE
outlook was good, but all I
fun nanny.
IS NOT A REHEARSAL.
could think about was that
I’ve made some amazing
I had cancer and this could
friends – other women who
THIS IS THE REAL THING.
be it. Every time I saw my
have been through the same
THESE DAYS I LIVE
beautiful grandchildren, I
thing. This year at the Relay
wondered if I would get to
for Life in Ballyfermot, four
IN THE NOW.”
see them making their
of us got a tattoo on our
communion. There were waves
wrists that says ‘Believe’,
of fear and sadness.
with the pink breast cancer
I attended a Survive and
ribbon running through it.
Thrive workshop with the
I love my job, and I do
Marie Keating Foundation
the best I can at it, but now
which gave me the kick I
when I clock out I clock out.
needed to say to myself ‘You
I live every single day. I try
survived! Go live your life,
to do something fun and
enjoy yourself, and be grateful.’
enjoyable instead of sitting
I used to think my job was
around watching TV and
so important, and I would
getting ready for work.
clean the house every day.
My partner and I might drive
We waste so many years
to Howth, buy a bag of
planning to do things or
chips and just sit watchputting things off, saying
ing the sea. I don’t say
I can’t do that because I need to buy a I’m too tired to go to the park or it’s
new car. I had gotten into a rut of being too cold to walk on the beach. Life is
a sensible grown-up. Buying a new car a celebration.
NICOLA CAHILL, 35
BREAST CANCER
SURVIVOR SINCE 2013
Nicola was diagnosed
last year, a week after her
34th birthday. Playing pitch
and putt one morning,
she felt pain in her right
breast. Over the next
three weeks the pain
got progressively worse.
Her GP referred her to
St James’s Hospital for
assessment and she was
given her diagnosis a
week later. Because her
cancer was oestrogenpositive, her doctors used
medication to induce early
menopause. She received
chemotherapy for four
months, radiotherapy
for more than six weeks
and has now had
a double mastectomy.
I lost a lot to cancer, but I gained a lot too.
cancer in your 20s or 30s.
Because the doctors had to induce
People said not to make friends in the
menopause, I know I’ll never
chemo ward and I can
“THERE HAS BEEN A
physically carry a child of my
understand that, but the
own. The risk of my breast
best thing to come out of
LOT OF LOSS, BUT ON
cancer recurring would be
this horrific situation are
THE OTHER SIDE, I HAVE
too much. I come from a big
the friends I’ve made.
family and I always hoped MADE FRIENDSHIPS THAT
There’s a group of seven
that someday I would meet
of us who were diagnosed
WILL LAST A LIFETIME.”
somebody and have kids of
with cancer in our 20s or
my own. That was difficult
30s - some are a little older
to accept.
than me, some are a little
I used to be very active
younger - and we are now
and play a lot of sport,
friends for life. We’re there
and I’ll never be able to go
for each other in the tough
back to being as active as
times and we go out and
I was. For the reconstruction
have fun together too.
surgery they had to take a
I don’t think I would have
large graft from my back
managed all this so well
and that has limited me
without them.
a lot. That has been hard
Cancer opened my eyes
for me.
to the world and to people.
Everyone told me it was
These days I focus on the
very unusual to be diagnosed
now and the people who
with cancer at 34 so that first
have been with me on this
day walking into the chemo
journey. Nobody knows
ward, I wasn’t expecting to
what’s around the corner.
see any other women my age. But I was I stay positive, but a lot of that is down to
wrong. I saw that it’s not rare to get breast the people around me.
ROISIN DUNNE, 49
BREAST CANCER
SURVIVOR SINCE 2012
Roisin was 46 when she
was diagnosed. She had
fallen and hurt her ribs,
and it was then that she
noticed a large lump
in her left breast. On
mammogram she was
found to have an 8cm
tumour in her left breast
and a smaller tumour
in the other breast. She
underwent eight rounds of
chemotherapy, followed by
a bilateral mastectomy.
When they told me I had breast world and then placing all this sadness on her.
cancer all I could think about was my
But on 17th of May this year, Darcy made
daughter. As a single mother with a four- her communion in a brand new communion
year-old girl, I couldn’t bear
dress that we picked out
“ONE WET DAY DARCY
the thought of her going
together. I was standing
through her life alone. AND I MADE IT FROM THE there right beside her,
I didn’t want Darcy to grow
cancer free.
TOP OF GRAFTON ST TO
up to be a sad person with
These days I live for the
THE BOTTOM DANCING
a sad story, but I couldn’t
day. I’m in. I don’t worry
AND JUMPING IN
help thinking about all the
about saving for that rainy
big occasions in her life that
day anymore. Life is too short.
PUDDLES AND SINGING
I would miss.
I value the people in my
CHRISTMAS CAROLS AT
Even though her comlife so much more. Family,
munion was three years away, THE TOP OF OUR LUNGS.” friends, neighbours – they
I went out one day and
were all so good to me.
bought her a communion
My neighbours arranged a
dress. I put it in the back
rota between them so that
of the wardrobe and told
I had a hot, healthy, homenobody about it except my
cooked meal served to me
mother. If I didn’t make it
every evening in bed.
to that day, I wanted her to
Things like that meant the
know that she was wearing
world to me.
a dress that her mum picked
And I don’t worry about
out for her.
what people think of me
To protect her from what
anymore. I’m not afraid to
was going on we never
be silly.
talked about cancer around
People must have thought
her. We created a code
I was crazy but once you’ve
name for cancer. We called
had to walk around with
it Kevin. My mum was say
no hair and no eyebrows
‘How is Kevin today?’ and I’d
and bloated from steroids,
say “He’s a bit tired today’ or ‘He’s not doing looking silly doesn’t really matter. I was
too bad’.
giving my child happy memories and that’s
I felt so guilty for bringing Darcy into this more important than fitting in.
YVONNE JOYE, 47
BREAST CANCER
SURVIVOR SINCE 2009
Yvonne was diagnosed
in November 2009.
Having felt an abnormality
in her breast and hearing
all the messages about
breast checks, she went to
her GP who referred
her to a specialist.
Five days later, she was
given her diagnosis.
She had a double
lumpectomy, followed
by four sessions of
chemotherapy and 25
sessions of radiotherapy.
She is now the author of
two books – Ten Fingers
and Ten Toes, and
An Inconvenient Year,
which details her
breast cancer journey.
That day in December 2009 when I got and then she got it again. That undid me.
the call to say that I was cancer-free, I was A number of mothers with kids at my son’s
alone in my kitchen. Hearing
school got cancer and
“THE BIGGEST CHANGE
those words, left me sliding
not all of those lovely girls
to the floor in relief. Tears
CANCER HAS BROUGHT
survived. That scares me.
rolled down my face and
But I can’t let it overtake
TO MY LIFE IS THAT I NO
repeating “thank you” over
me. I have been gifted with
LONGER WASTE TIME. I
and over was all I could say.
a second chance at life and
CHERISH TIME, USE TIME
Long after the call ended,
it’s up to me to live it; I owe
I remained on the floor, still
it to myself and I owe to
AND SPEND TIME ONLY
thanking but instead of
those who love me. So I
WITH THOSE WHO DO
crying I was now smiling.
take my medication, I go for
NOT WASTE MINE.”
That call changed everymy check-ups and I walk
thing. Whatever treatment
every-day.
prescribed, I would do;
I get to share more of life
chemotherapy, radiotherapy
with my husband and my
medication. How could I
children. I get to be there
complain about hair loss,
for them, through the big
when I had been worried
stuff and the small stuff;
about my life?
their first Wes, leaving cert,
I went through chemo
university, picnics on the
and I started radiotherapy
beach. Surviving cancer
at the end of April 2010.
means I get to have all that.
Radiotherapy didn’t impact
I now chase what makes
on me too much. This was a
me happy, capture it and
time of hope; it was spring
make it part of my life.
and I was coming out the
And I urge the same for
other side.
my children; to seek, find
Naturally, cancer coming
and work at what makes
back frightens me. On my
them happy and contented.
second chemo session I met a woman It’s all I want for them and good health too,
who had been cancer-free for three years please God.
This campaign could not have happened without the
contributions of several people.
Thanks to Gerry Andrews for taking the beautiful portrait
photographs, which help to portray the return to normality after
a hugely emotional and physically difficult experience.
Thanks to Dawn O’Shea for conducting the interviews so
sensitively, and helping these brave women to articulate their
very moving stories of survival.
Sharing your cancer story is a deeply personal and sometimes
difficult thing to do. We would like to express deep and sincere
gratitude to all ten women who so graciously shared their stories
and their very personal ‘survivorship milestone’ photographs.
Dealing with a cancer diagnosis can be overwhelming. If you
or a member of your family has been diagnosed with breast
cancer, there is help and support available. Contact the Marie
Keating Foundation on 01 6283726 or visit www.mariekeating.ie
for more information.
This campaign was produced by Roche in partnership with
the Marie Keating Foundation.