AFL star Jeremy Finlayson’s terminally ill wife Kellie has shared a heartbreaking update as she continues to battle cancer.
The 28-year-old, who has stage 4 bowel and lung cancer, shared how she is coping with her journey in a tearful Instagram Stories post on Tuesday.
‘For those wondering if I ever cry… yes I do. Not often and usually due to the collateral that comes with a terminal diagnosis,’ she wrote.
‘But yes, I am human, some days do get the best of me and I’m a prisoner to my own thoughts’.
She continued: ‘I take ten steps forward one day and 12 steps back the next.
‘I am positive and grateful to be alive, but some days remind me that this is so far from the life I’d created in my mind as a teenager.
‘S**t sucks sometimes. And it feels isolating, I too feel alone, but I know I’m not.’
Kellie and Jeremy, 28, recently made the sad decision to sell their house in Adelaide.
AFL star Jeremy Finlayson’s terminally ill wife Kellie (pictured) has shared a heartbreaking update as she continues to battle cancer
The Port Adelaide star and his influencer wife revealed they were selling their house so they could get a place suited to providing Kellie with in-home care.
‘This was to be our forever home, but I guess life had other plans,’ Kellie told Adelaide Now.
‘It was a really nice space to be in but we discovered with the amount of people we needed around me, and with the room we would need for equipment and machinery, we needed more space.’
The couple are now relocating to a more suitable property in Adelaide with their daughter Sophia, as Kellie continues treatment.
‘I’m fighting for my life every day. I’ve got every excuse to lay down and moan, but there’s not really much point in doing so.’
Jeremy and Kellie recently made the sad decision to sell their house in Adelaide. Pictured together with their daughter Sophia
The social media influencer previously battled bowel and lung cancer after she was diagnosed in November 2021 following the birth of the couple’s child, Sophia.
She underwent several surgeries and chemotherapy after her initial stage 3 diagnosis moved on to stage 4.
In January, Kellie started another six-month round of chemotherapy, but had since stopped her chemotherapy and radiation treatments to put her trust in natural therapies and alternative medicine.
However she confirmed in June she would likely have to resume chemotherapy to quickly get on top of any further growth in the cancer.
‘Unfortunately with cancer, especially relapsed cancer, it grows really fast so once we see not even quite a millimetre of growth in a scan over a couple of months, we know that means it’s growing and that means we have to act on it,’ she said in a TikTok video.
‘So normally I walk out of a meeting with my oncologist and he tells me we’re happy to watch and wait. Not the case today.
‘I am off to see a surgeon next week and a radiotherapist. Just to get all of my options before potentially starting chemotherapy again.’
Kellie said her treatments had worked to slow the spread of her cancer but ‘100 per cent’ robbed her of her first year of motherhood with Sophia, and now she faces the prospect of never having more children.
Meanwhile, Jeremy said the turmoil of the last few years took its toll and impacted his football career.
‘I am positive and grateful to be alive, but some days remind me that this is so far from the life I’d created in my mind as a teenager,’ she wrote
