I was young in 1991 when I was diagnosed with MPN [polycythemia rubra vera (PV) and essential thrombocythemia (ET)] at the age of 18 but I believe my first symptoms started many years earlier, when I was at primary school. I am now 50 and have progressed to myelofibrosis (MF). I live on Brisbane’s northside and am a mother of three healthy children.
I have a great passion for helping women with MPN, especially those diagnosed in childhood. I bring to the MPN AA Team my insights of going through teenage years and the social difficulties my MPN gave me, young married life difficulties with pregnancy and child birth, working life/career having to always work part-time and now in peri-menopause.
Sharon’s story featured in the Leukaemia Foundation’s 2021 newsletter – see link below.
Sharon has also been interviewed on ABC radio to raise awareness about the need for stem cell donors and her own quest for a donor.
