McQualters' fight: The Tiger family that has already won

For 38 weeks nothing was wrong. Then Jane McQualter went in for an ultrasound and the obstetrician noticed something that shouldn't be there.

"We didn't even know it was potentially cancer, we didn't know it was oncology, we thought it was for a paediatrician. They didn't tell us anything because they didn't want us to worry but we rock up at the hospital and we are sent to the oncology unit with a five-day-old baby," Jane said. At 20 days old, Emily was sent for an MIGB scan, for which a radioactive medication is injected into the blood. Again, there was trouble getting the dye into her tiny veins. Again, the results were inconclusive."They thought she was probably all good, just a cyst so we got the all clear when she was three weeks old, saying let's leave it for now and monitor her," Jane said.

Senior coach Damien Hardwick told Andrew to forget football and care for his daughter. The other coaches would cover for him. Then Emily got sick. She had a fever, so they took her to their GP, who referred her to the Royal Children's where they were more familiar with her history. It was 10.30pm on a Tuesday and they sat in the Royal Children's Hospital with Emily and Jane's mum and cried. They spent the night with Emily in the hospital and saw the oncologist the next morning.

"I was having days where I just wouldn't come in. I was stoppages coach and I still did my job completely, I turned up to everything that was important in football terms. I think the players kind of knew something was happening but would not have known everything, or the seriousness.

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