The drama of a young couple suffering from terminal cancer and suffering for their children

Nail partner received, just three months apart, dramatic news: he has cancer Terminal. And is that, although the two face a different diagnosis, the young parents fear for the state of orphan in which their two children, one of two years and the other of only four months, risk to define.

Adam Graveley is a British graphic designer and in March 2007 he went on a trip to Australia. He was planning on returning, but that changed when he met Caitlin on an online date in 2009. She, for her part, is a landscape architect. They started a relationship and on December 7, 2014, they formalized their engagement and got married in Perth. Adam is now 38 and his partner 39 and love brought them both to live in Perth, with their little ones. The history, which was known in March, has become viral again in the last hours.

Since they met on the same path, the marriage has had a happy and healthy life, until the woman was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer, after giving birth last October. This is where Fearn, the couple’s second child, was born. A contradictory situation, on the one hand they were happy with the birth and on the other hand the news of Caitlin’s terminal cancer took all hope. At first, Caitlin thought the pain was due to her recent childbirth. However, after having a colonoscopy, they confirmed that it was a terminal illness as the bowel cancer had spread to the liver.

But the last straw came when, just three months later, in February, the man was also diagnosed with end-stage pancreatic cancer. A totally accidental evaluation, as Adam went to the doctor thinking he had a stomach ulcer, caused by the stress of his wife’s illness. Currently, Caitlin has had her tumor removed and is undergoing chemotherapy to try to clear the metastases in her liver. While Adam began an extremely aggressive experimental treatment.

The family want to use her story to raise awareness about aggressive cancers that start in those under 40, and with it, they are urging people to get tested as soon as possible. In the meantime, everyone is hoping the treatment will work: “We hope and pray every day that the treatment they are receiving will work and that it will last for years instead of months,” says Adam’s sister Emma Reynolds .

Most troubling for the couple, however, is the fear that their young children Thea, 2, and Fearn, 4, will be orphans.