Milkshakes for Marleigh

Dean Hewitt is one half of the first ever Australian team to qualify for Curling at the Olympic Games, He partnered with Tahli Gill at the Beijing 2022 Games to represent his country to some epic wins and enchanted Aussies with the sport of Curling. Dean has been influenced by two great men in his career. His Grandfather in Canada and Curling legend Ian "ice nut" Pellagio, who died from a rare for...

Michael from Tiny Gratitudes is spreading awareness about cancer, expressing a cancer journey through drawings and sharing blood donation experiences. In this episode he candidly shares with what it is like to be the father in a family with additional needs and gives thanks to the blood donors that are such a crucial part of his 3 years of son's cancer treatment.  You can find Michael on Instagram...

This week we celebrate Rare Diseases Day by chatting with Golden from Genetic Cures for Kids about her daughter Tallulah Moon and their mission to find a cure for SPG56, the debilitating neurogenerative disease that is robbing her of the ability to walk talk and move independently. Plasma infusion has been a part of her early treatment options so Golden thanks blood donors while also talking about...

At the age of 6, Paralympic Gold Medalist Swimmer Brenden Hall lost 70% of his hearing and his leg due top complications of Chicken Pox, however he didnt loose his life thanks to the hundred of Australian Blood Donors that kept him alive.  Brenden shares insights about his remarkable swimming career which saw him win his first Paralympic Gold Medal at the 2012 London Games and be awarded an Order...

Kate from Milkshakes for Marleigh chats with Emma and Amy from RAWR The Podcast about the realities of parenting medically complex kids. All 3 of these families have benefitted from Australian blood donors.  To find RAWR The Podcast please go to: RAWR The Podcast | a podcast by RAWRThePodcast (podbean.com) In this episode we talk about online Carers Circles run by The Carers Club. You might just s...

ASK ME ANYTHING with host Kate Fisher discusses how to identify as a Carer as well as a parent, managing Carer illness and burnout and how to manage medical trauma in children.  Watch out of our special collab episode with RAWR The Podcast dropping on Monday 21 February. You can here more from Amy and Emma on RAWR The Podcast here: User RAWR with Emma & Amy | Free Listening on Podbean App Host...

Grace from @yoginigrace tells her story of caring for daughter 5 year old Raya who had Leukemia. Raya has benefitted from blood, platelet and plasma donors during her treatment. Grace explains how yoga, meditation, her faith and her spirituality helped her to get to her "miracle".  This is an episode that explains so well why in this podcast we focus on the description of "families with additional...

Sarah shares her experience of being diagnosed with Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia (APML) and how Australian Blood Donors saved her life and gave her the gift of going on to create her family.  She credits her recovery from her cancer of the white blood cells to her "#laynebeachlyblood" and gives thanks to the donors who allowed her a second chance at life.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy fo...

Seth is a 10 year old boy from Tasmania who is now living his best life and this is all thanks to Australian blood and bone marrow donors. Seth has a condition called Severe Idiopathic Acquired Aplastic Anemia which can be life threatening. He has endured so much testing, treatment, isolation as he was immunocompromised and way too many nights inside hospitals.  A big part of the challenge for Set...

Artist, wife, mother, carer and small business owner, Claire Devine shares an honest account of how fertility treatment put her life in danger, how blood donors kept her alive and gave her the gift of being able to go on to create a family.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Emma Booth is an Australian Paralympian. She competes in the equestrian discipline of Dressage and has represented Australian at two Paralympic games in Rio and Tokyo.  Emma was involved in an horrific car accident in 2013 which left her with a severe spinal cord injury and living life as an L2 paraplegic in a wheelchair. But this didn't slow her down, in fact it sharpened her focus to represent h...

Geoff lost his little brother in early adulthood to Leukemia. As a result Geoff has watched his nephew grow up without his father. When Geoff received a diagnosis of Myeloma, he wondered if his girls would be doing the same thing.  Australian blood donors haven't just helped to keep Geoff alive, they have also improved his quality of life and continue to give him the gift of more time with his bea...

Two Twin Mums candidly share their experience off accessing both blood and donor breastmilk.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Paralympic Silver Medalist Swimmer, Monique Murphy was at a University party in Melbourne when her drink was spiked and she fell from a 5 story balcony onto a glass roof. While she was in a coma for the week following her accident her parents were wrongly informed that her accident was a suicide attempt.  Blood donors saved Monique's life after her accident and she has gone on to remarkable achiev...

The boy who caught on fire on his 2nd birthday thanks the blood donors who kept him alive and then saved the life of his wife, Emma following an emergency delivery of their baby due to pre-eclampsia and a post-partum hemorrhage that nearly killed her.   You can find Emma's awesome Stay Put Girls account on Instagram where she reviews sports bras and gives her followers regular doses of joy!  Hoste...

"If you haven't got blood on that emergency helicopter, don't bother coming"  Shark attack survivor Joel Mason shares his story of how after being attacked by a shark his life (and his leg!) was saved by enormous blood and plasma transfusion and how he needed blood products at the beach before he could even be put into the helicopter. Following his accident, Joel has been am incredible ambassador...

In this episode we are joined by Adam 'BarRat" Barrat from Sunshine Coasts 91.9 SeaFM. He has been a champion for the Milkshakes for Marleigh Lifeblood team and regularly donates plasma. He is also a blood product recipient after breaking his neck.  In this episode we also interview Marleigh's big brother Campbell on the realities of having a sister with a complex and particularly life threatening...

Ahead of International Day of People with Disability on 03 December 2021,  we are dropping this bonus episode with Dr Dinesh Palipana.  Dr Palipana is the 2021 Queensland Australian of the year, a lawyer, a disability and inclusivity advocate and a doctor at the Australia's busiest Emergency Department on the Gold Coast, Queensland. As a result of a spinal cord injury suffered during a car acciden...

In this episode Chloe Wigg shares her experience of living with multiple autoimmune conditions including Myasthenia Gravis, which can be treated with Intravenous Immunoglobulin Infusion (IVIg) which is made from human plasma donations.  Chloe discusses the way that she uses her art as a tool in her advocacy work to raise awareness about invisible disabilities and why she is the undisputed queen of...

AFL Star and inaugural GWS Giants Captain Phil Davis shares his story of the injury that could have taken his kidney, his career and his life.  In this interview I am joined by a co-host, our 11 year old son Thomas Fisher, who believes himself to be the GWS Giants biggest fan. Phil shares his experiences of being a blood product recipient and his achievements both on and off field with the GWS Gia...

Miracle Mumma, Amy Purling shares how plasma and platelet donors kept her babies safe in utero, saved their lives in the early Neonatal Intensive Care days and continue to help the family thrive and live their best lives as the family grow together. She also describes what is is like to have a child who who uses a Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) tube. This is one incredible family who ar...

In this episode of The Milkshakes for Marleigh Podcast we profile Julian, a recently medically discharged Soldier of the Australian Army who suffers from Acute Disseminated Encepalomyelitis (ADEM) which is a type of Autoimmune Encephalitis and Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein (MOG), which both require Intravenous Immunoglobulin Infusion IVIg, which is made from human plasma donations.  We also...

Welcome to the Milkshakes for Marleigh Podcast where we bridge the gap of anonymity between Australian blood donors and their recipients. In this episode, we tell the origin story of the Milkshakes for Marleigh Lifeblood team through 5 year old Marleigh's survival story and explain how for her, blood product is life saving when she relapses and life preserving for every infusion in between.  This...

Welcome to the trailer episode of Milkshakes for Marleigh. This podcast bridges the gap of anonymity between blood donors and their recipients by telling stories of survival and giving thanks to Australian blood donors.  If you've ever been a blood donor you could have been the one to save the life of the guests that we profile each week.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informatio...