No matter where we live we all have THE SAME QUESTIONS

You may be a tough farming woman working hard in the blazing sun all day – but if cancer hits, you’re simply a woman desperate for answers. Michelle Endacott meets the nurse helping save these lives in the bush.

WHEN THE FLYING Doctors plane lands on the desolate airstrip at Ivanhoe, someone is always there to meet it. This person must drive down the airstrip to scare kangaroos away, then ferry medical staff to the clinic in this tiny outback NSW town. Today, our roo-chasing chauffeur is pint-sized farmer Jill Crozier, 58, here to be reunited with the woman who helped save her life, breast care nurse Jo Beven. Jill’s story begins when a lamb kicked her in the left breast. “I thought I was just bruised, but when I had a shower I felt a lump and had this sick feeling. In hindsight, that lamb saved my life – it made me go to the doctors.” That lump turned out to be so hard, the experts had trouble…

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The Australian Women's Weekly (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2015

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