Anna Bligh & her cancer

Strip away the stigma associated with HIV and it's simply another serious disease we face as human beings on the planet. 

Anna Bligh, the last Premier of our northern state Queensland, has been diagnosed with a serious cancer; non-Hodgkin lymphoma. She's opened up about it. talking frankly about the disease and her reactions and feelings about it.

Ms Bligh had no obvious symptoms. 

"While medicine does know a lot about (cancer), when you're the person experiencing it, it still feels like you are in completely uncharted waters and I never felt like that in politics," Ms Bligh told The Courier Mail. 

"But still nothing really prepares you for confronting your own mortality." more

I know how you feel darling.