Meagan O’Hehir and Heather Cust met years before cancer entered either of their lives, crossing paths on the netball courts of the Rosebud Football Netball Club. It would take a diagnosis, then another, to turn a passing acquaintance into a partnership that now reaches dozens of peninsula families a year. Meagan was 33, fit and healthy when, in October 2022, she found a lump in her breast. The diagnosis was invasive HER2-positive breast cancer. What followed was a year of IVF to preserve her fertility, six rounds of chemotherapy, surgery, five weeks of radiation, twelve months of immunotherapy, and multiple…
