Mum urges parents to 'spend time' with their kids after devastating diagnosis
Sara Vorbach was expecting her third child when she had her first seizure.
The mum, who was 40 at the time, simply put it down to the stress her body was under.
Her little girl was induced at 36 weeks due to no growth in four weeks. Sara had a seizure during labour, although she thought she was having a stroke at the time.
Frighteningly, just 17 days after the birth of her daughter on December 1st, Sara had her "worst seizure yet" and she was referred for an MRI.
It was here that she received a devastating diagnosis: she had seven brain lesions with major swelling which is what was causing the seizures.
Doctors conducted further tests before giving Sara another blow: primary lung cancer.
"It's cancer the doc says more tests with a final result Primary Lung cancer which has spread to lymph nodes around the wind pipe and oesophagus and into my brain [sic]," the mum-of-three wrote on her GoFundMe page, which was set up to raise money to help her parents, who will take in her kids, expand or move into a bigger home.
Sadly, the cancer is "non-operable non-curable" and the mum has been given around two years to live.
Sara has since resigned from her job in aged care – continuing work was just impossible once she started treatment.
Her diagnosis made the mum-of-three realise that she spent so long being busy.
"Knowing what the ultimate outcome of this is going to be has made me realise how much of my life I've spent being busy," Sara told Kidspot.
"I spent so long being busy, going to work trying to build a better life for my kids, and while I was doing that, they were in daycare or in Kindy.
"And, now I realise how little time I'm actually going to get to spend with them.
"That's probably been the hardest thing to accept."
Urging parents to spent more time with their kids, Sara said:
"Please just spend time with your family and your friends and your kids while you've got the time because you never know when it's going to run out."