THE AGE, June 10, 2023
Cathy Watson is dying from a chronic lung disease. “I’m terminal – both my lungs have completely gone – I have to take an oxygen bottle with me wherever I go, shower, toilet, down the street, in the car.”
For three years the 65-year-old hasn’t left her home in Rochester, a small town north of Melbourne, for anything other than medical appointments.
The medication makes Watson’s bones brittle and five weeks before the marriage of her only son, Mark, in Tooborac, she stretched and broke her back in two places. “There was no way the doc was going to let me go to the wedding.”
