What people thought were wedding jitters turned out to be something much worse for James Brown. What happened next inspired his wife Madeleine to help families undergoing the same intense treatment.
When James and Madeleine Brown married in 2016, guests assumed the groom was nervous on the big day.
"It was so intense for him, and then seeing kids around us going through the same intense treatment trials," she said. It inspired Ms Brown to put together a box of activities for children to help them escape the isolating experience of cancer treatment. "They can sit there while they are in treatment … and they immerse themselves in a colourful world of imagination, instead of looking around them and just seeing a hospital," Ms Brown said.More than 350 children aged under 14 are diagnosed with blood cancers each year in Australia, according to the Leukaemia Foundation."People like Madeleine are tremendous... we need more of them around the country," Mr Murphy said.Ms Brown is distributing the boxes out of her own pocket.
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