Robbie Farah says he will fight his mother’s cancer with her until they succeed
Wests Tigers’ skipper Robbie Farah revealed while talking to media reporters about standing by his mother-Sonia’s battle against the pancreatic cancer all along.
When his mother’s cancer was diagnosed in November, the Tigers’ hooker, cancelled all his prior commitments to make himself available to his mother’s ailment period, which is a tough patch for both Farah and his 62-year-old mother.
Farah has vowed that he will do his best to beat cancer from taking his mother life. He also shared that the battle is a fierce one which needs to be fought day in and day out.
However, he is pleased from the way his mother is dealing with the menace on routine basis, despite the fact that it is a very painful bout for her. However, his mother according to him is following the special diet regime religiously and dealing with the
whole episode with a brave heart- just the way it is ought to be.
He shared that fighting cancer through mental strength is the only way out of extreme hopelessness, which is supplementary in case of such extreme sickness. While talking about how strongly Sonia is struggling her way through the tough patch, he said that
he is very proud of her.
He continued and said, “These sorts of things are mental and they can break you. You just can't imagine how tough it is, but half the battle is mental. We've got to be positive. We can't give in. We've got to treat everything as normally as possible. Mum
has been so strong. She's not changed too much. She's still doing the same things as best she can. I still live at home and I've seen it all. There's nights I've spent on the couch with her, when she's in pain. I try my best . . . just to keep her mind occupied.”
He also shared that in an attempt to keep her mind fully occupied he kept his mother’s mind busy by talking to her and making her laugh. This is the only way about beating cancer and his mother is also not giving up on it easily.
Farah strongly believes that his mother will regain health again as he is not thinking of anything less than that. He also mentioned that unless the life threatening disease of that sort ventures in your home, you can never realise what it actually is. He
believes that now he has gained a newer perspective on things around him.
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