'I don't know how you cope with that': How Ciara beat the odds

By Kate Aubusson
Updated March 2 2017 - 2:33pm, first published February 15 2017 - 4:46pm
Michaela with her daughter Ciara, 7, who was diagnosed with neuroblastoma when she was 12 weeks old. Photo: Wolter Peeters
Michaela with her daughter Ciara, 7, who was diagnosed with neuroblastoma when she was 12 weeks old. Photo: Wolter Peeters
Michaela (left) with her daughter Ciara, 7, Rory, 9, and her husband Aran at their Balmain home. Photo: Wolter Peeters
Michaela (left) with her daughter Ciara, 7, Rory, 9, and her husband Aran at their Balmain home. Photo: Wolter Peeters

"This is your new life," a stranger told Michaela Flanagan as she microwaved her dinner in the kitchen at the Sydney Children's Hospital.

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