The word crazy is all Lavington mother Felicity Cahill could use to sum up the past six months for her family.
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Between mothering her two sons and taking her newborn to hospital for several kidney operations she also managed to saved her husbands life.
She said she doesn’t know how she got through and it’s still going.
“My husband called me a load bearing wall, if I fall everybody else will too,” she said.
“You just keep going, pick up the pieces and put it back together.”
Her husband, Lincoln, wanted to tell their story to show appreciation to his wife for all she has done.
It began when Mrs Cahill was 20 weeks pregnant and she went for a scan to find out if they were having a boy or a girl.
Instead, they were told her unborn son, Isaack, had kidney problems.
He had his first operation at just 11 days old and has since had three more.
The family travels to Melbourne every three months so Isaack can see a specialist which is something he will continue to do for the rest of his life.
While the Cahill’s were focusing on the health of their newborn, nothing could have prepared them for what came next.
At the start of June Mr Cahill began having a seizure while showering with Isaack.
The episode was first thought to have been the aftermath of a big Saturday night, but it turned out there was more bad health news to come.
“I heard a lot of loud banging and I ran inside,” Mrs Cahill said.
“Lincoln had somehow managed to kick open the shower door and place Isaack on the floor so he didn't fall.
“I wrapped Isaack up as tight as I could in a towel so he wouldn't move.
“Once my adrenaline kicked in and I knew what was happening with Lincoln, I grabbed the phone and called the ambulance.
“I attempted to roll Linc onto side and my phone slipped and fell into the water.
“It became waterlogged while talking to ambulance, but I kept screaming to ambos.
“Then he started to go blue and he had his mouth open a bit and I noticed his teeth weren’t there because he has dentures.
“I scoured the bathroom floor, they weren’t there or in his mouth and him going blue was one indication of where they were.
“So I put my fingers down his throat and pulled his teeth out then he started breathing again.”
Mr Cahill fractured his back during the seizure and scans at the hospital revealed he had two tumours on his brain.
Surgeons have successfully managed to remove the bigger one while the smaller one remains under monitoring.
He said his wife has done an incredible job keeping everyone going.
“If she wasn’t there, I’d be dead,” Mr Cahill said.
“Some days she has done it really hard, not many couples would go through this much and come out of it together.”