Just before Christmas, nurse Alisha Allen was enjoying a holiday in the Blue Mountains with her partner Jamie after visiting with family when the 23-year-old “on the cusp of her life” started to feel a bit strange.
The woman, who lives in Melbourne’s south and has spent the last few years working in the oncology ward at Alfred Hospital, noticed she was tired and “kind of breathless”, her aunt Sal Douglas told Yahoo News Australia.
Oddly enough, it was then she texted a friend, in almost a nervously joking manner, “wouldn’t it be funny if I had leukaemia”. It was almost like a “premonition” of the “unimaginable turn” her life would take days later, Ms Douglas said. “It’s obviously come to her mind that it could be a possibility.”