AFL star's wife spends wedding anniversary in hospital amid cancer battle

AFL star Jeremy Finlayson's wife Kellie Finlayson has revealed she's had a bit of a setback with her health and is spending her second wedding anniversary in hospital. 

The 29-year-old is battling  terminal stage four bowel cancer that metastasised in her lungs. 

She took to Instagram to share the update from her hospital bed, with a picture of the happy couple showing off their rings on their wedding day, and an updated photo of herself in the ward, with the caption: "Happy anniversary darl. Two years ago V. Today!"

"Happy anniversary to me," she added, using a crying with laughter emoji and a bandaged love heart emoji.

The  AFL star shared his own anniversary message with an Instagram story, writing: "Happy anniversary <3" 

Kellie did not explain why she was hospitalised. 

The couple tied the knot back in March 2023 in South Australia.

Kellie, who is a mother-of-one, was diagnosed with bowel cancer at the age of 25. 

She previously opened up about her diagnosis on the Nova podcast  Head Game, and shared just how hard her chemotherapy treatment was. 

"I lost a s--t ton of weight. I mean, I had a stoma, so I had a foreign object on my stomach. I wasn't the normal mum that she should have had, but I was as good as I possibly could be. It was hard," she said at the time. 

"I was allergic to one of the strands of that chemotherapy, which is why, when I did relapse, I had to change chemotherapy, which meant I lost my hair.

"I was on my deathbed. I was getting anaphylactic reactions every three weeks to this chemotherapy. So I was essentially dying every three weeks, just to get better."

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