Sunrise's Eddy Bartholomew reveals cancer diagnosis | Sunrise

I have some personal news this morning it's not great news not a a panda story to finish the bulletin I have been diagnosed with cancer um that's a shock to say and hard to say but it's a really good kind it's called chronic myoid leukemia so I can be treated with a daily tablet and if I take care of myself I will be completely absolutely fine so I feel very very lucky I wanted to share this with you for a couple of reasons firstly because everyone at home and here has been here for all the wonderful times for the engagement and the weddings and the babies for all of us so it felt right to share this with you too and I know many of you have been in similar situations or much much worse and come out the other side of it stronger and more resilient that's exactly what I plan to do thought I could keep it together and I will secondly the reason I'm telling you is because after I turned 40 I made the decision to prioritize my health now I got a skin check after Nat had her scare um I had a mamogram after I had a few lumps and that came back all clear even had an ey check and that's fine um but my doctor sent me to get some routine blood tests at the same time and one of those tests came back with some levels um out of whack so please particularly for moms who always take care of everyone else please take care of your yourself too and just check in with your doctor um I found out in July so um about a month and a half ago and I only taught a few people here at work so I wanted to thank a few of them all of you guys at the desk sh particularly Nat for constantly checking in and all the meals as well so thank you for that um to Mon and Sally who graciously shuffled around their family commitment so that I could take care of mine and our bosses God how many times am I bled on National Television on this show so many um Sarah Jer and Anthony who have been so understanding I'm going to be taking some some time off in September and then just return just a few days a week here at Sunrise despite appearances um I feel really positive about it it genuinely genuinely is the luckiest unlucky thing to ever happen to me I'm just beond grateful I found it um and Beyond grateful it's the best case scenario so there you go it's still Eddie first of all we're really sorry that you've had to go through this but you as you say um you the treatment is is kind of a good one explain it to us we're so lucky so um literally I can take a daily tablet my life expectancy doesn't change I just do need to to take care of myself and rest so we are unbelievably lucky to firstly have access to that in this country and and that that is you know the kind that I have and also I've reacted really well to the medication so far which is fantastic and I've had no um no side effects and I also had no symptoms which is why I wanted to give that health warning at all I didn't have anything I mean I was tired but hey you know get up at 3:00 a.m. um so so no symptoms at all no warning signs and that's really common with this kind of kind of cancer chronic myoid leukemia you often don't have symptoms be very slow going but if I I hadn't prioritized my health and had that check I could be dealing with a really different situation so yeah I think it's just a lot to wrap your head around because it sounds like a scary word um but you know Barett with to cure you work in this space all the time you know just so many amazing breakthroughs and just yeah everything crossed and just so incredibly grateful that this is the outcome Eddie you have uh like everything that you approach you've taken this so positively and I know it's such a strange thing to say that but you did you reached out to us personally you told us this journey that you're about to go on yourself and the positivity that you bring along with it is the best cure you're going to get because you do it in such an amazing way so we're right behind you and we always will be and I know that so many of our viewers as well are right behind you thank you shevy I was lying down to get my bone marrow biopsy going I just feel so grateful and the guy's like we don't get that vibe in here very often so yeah I think I do I me despite um you know getting emotional about it this morning cuz it is emotional thing for for me and my family and all of our friends and all of you guys my work family um I just feel I feel really good I feel good in myself but also just yeah really really lucky and and and really grateful yeah it's still big though to hear that word and we know that cuz we've been living this a little bit with you um and the fact that you can take a tablet I know is amazing and that's what you guys do and all our cancer fundraisers Do which is amazing in this country isn't it so so very very and it the importance having people around you too is is really good and you have lots of us you can call on and we're here for you so thank you and please do I know it's often just said you know anything we can do always do thank you yeah it's been a um a strangely joyous time catching up with so many people and and calling them personally to share the news so there you go there you go that's my news this morning okay come here just we do we're going to have a group hug we'll be back we love you Eddie we'll be back soon