The Women’s Podcast with Róisín Ingle
When Galway woman Emma McGuinness was pregnant with her second child in 2021, she discovered an unusual swelling in the side of her neck.
On the advice of her doctors, Emma’s son Ruarí was born at 36 weeks. He spent the first 14 days of his life in the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit. Meanwhile, his mother, who was at the start of her maternity leave, was preparing to undergo her first round of chemotherapy treatment.
“We only had one week with Ruarí at home, one week of normality, I suppose before we were launched into the cancer world,” she recalls. “Ruarí came home on Thursday and I was starting my treatment the following Tuesday”. “My maternity leave ended four days before my last chemo session,” she explains. “And I suppose that’s what is so important about this campaign and that is changed … at the time, I was so extremely vulnerable. It never occurred to me that I was using my maternity leave”.
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