Podcast
Still Jill
Hosted by ABC Australia · ENGLISH
Jill Emberson is getting married two months after finishing her latest bout of palliative chemotherapy. She was freshly in love and stimulated at work when she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Nine months later, she was told she’d be lucky to be alive in five years. We all know we’ll die one day, but what’s it like to live life with death in sight? And how does it feel to have a terminal illness from the very cradle of life, our ovaries?
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Chapter 7 Postscript | Remembering Jill
Feb 18, 202000:10:24Tap to summarizeJill Emberson died on December 12, 2019, four years after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer.
Transcribe →Chapter 6 | Update
Jun 26, 201900:16:04Tap to summarizeJill has won an award, started a massive new campaign and tried two different treatments for ovarian cancer, so we thought it was about time for a Bonus Episode to keep you up to date.
Transcribe →Chapter 5 | The Wedding
Nov 6, 201800:16:57Tap to summarizeIt’s early 2018, and Jill is going back into chemo, but this time it’s palliative. If the treatment is a success it will buy her a healthy window of time for her wedding and honeymoon.
Transcribe →Chapter 4 | The Lab Rat
Oct 30, 201800:16:24Tap to summarizeJill starts the fight to get on a drug trial that won’t cure her cancer but could buy her a few more years.
Transcribe →Chapter 3 | Relapse
Oct 23, 201800:14:38Tap to summarizeNine months after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer, Jill is told her cancer is back. That makes it terminal.
Transcribe →Chapter 2 | Mum's Got Cancer
Oct 16, 201800:15:55Tap to summarizeJill’s daughter Malia was studying overseas when Jill was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Malia and Jill remember that conversation, and the emergency trip home.
Transcribe →Chapter 1 | Marry Me Ken
Oct 8, 201800:15:57Tap to summarizeJill Emberson is in hospital recovering from emergency brain surgery when she proposes to her partner of 7 years, Ken. He says no.
Transcribe →Introducing... Still Jill
Oct 2, 201800:02:49Tap to summarizeWe all know we’ll die one day, but what’s it like to live life with death in sight?
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