- AFL star’s wife is battling stage 4 bowel and lung cancer
- A couple recently sold their family home as Kellie continues her treatment
Football star Jeremy Finlayson is now sporting a touching tattoo of his daughter, just days after his cancer-stricken wife Kellie shared heartbreaking news about her battle with the deadly disease.
The 28-year-old Port Adelaide key forward shared a series of images via an Instagram story in a touching tribute to his daughter Sophia Jai.
His name now appears permanently on his right knee, as well as his date of birth: August 19, 2021.
The striking design features a silhouette of Finlayson tossing her daughter into the air, with the largest part of the tattoo showing her holding her pinky finger in her hand.
This comes after Kellie shared a heartbreaking update earlier this week on social media as she continues to battle stage 4 bowel and lung cancer.
The 28-year-old shared how she is coping with her journey in an emotional Instagram post on Tuesday.
“For those wondering if I ever cry… yes, I do. Not often and usually because of the collateral consequences that come with a terminal diagnosis,” she posted.
‘But yes, I am human, some days I am overwhelmed and a prisoner of my own thoughts.’
Football star Jeremy Finlayson opted for a touching tattoo inspired by his daughter Sophia just days after his wife Kellie shared some heartbreaking news.
Finlayson’s terminally ill wife Kellie (pictured together) shared an update earlier this week on social media as she continues to battle stage 4 bowel and lung cancer.
Kellie (pictured) admitted she is often “a prisoner of her own thoughts” and “feels alone” as she battles the deadly disease.
She continued: ‘One day I take ten steps forward and twelve steps back the next.
‘I have a positive attitude and am grateful to be alive, but some days I am reminded that this is a far cry from the life I had created in my mind as a teenager.
“Sometimes it sucks. And you feel isolated. I feel alone too, but I know I’m not.”
The couple recently made the sad decision to sell their Adelaide home.
The Port Adelaide star and his influencer wife revealed they were selling their home so they could find somewhere more suitable to provide Kellie with home care.
“This was going to be our forever home, but I guess life had other plans,” Kellie said. Adelaide now.
‘It was a really nice space, but we found that with the amount of people we needed around me and the space we would need for equipment and machinery, we needed more room.
“I fight for my life every day. I have every excuse to lie down and complain, but there’s not much point in doing so.”
Jeremy and Kellie Finlayson recently made the sad decision to sell their Adelaide home, pictured here with their daughter Sophia.
“I have a positive attitude and am grateful to be alive, but some days I am reminded that this is a far cry from the life I had created in my mind as a teenager,” Kellie wrote this week.
In January, Kellie began another six-month round of chemotherapy, but had since stopped her chemotherapy and radiation treatments to rely on natural therapies and alternative medicine.
However, in June she confirmed that she would likely have to resume chemotherapy to quickly control any further growth of the cancer.
“Unfortunately, cancer, especially recurrent cancer, grows very quickly, so once we see even a millimetre of growth on a scan over a couple of months, we know that means it’s growing and that means we need to act on it,” she said in a TikTok video.
‘Usually when I leave a meeting with my oncologist, he tells me that we are happy to watch and wait. Today that is not the case.
“I’m seeing a surgeon and a radiation therapist next week, just to evaluate all my options before possibly starting chemotherapy again.”
Kellie said her treatments had worked to slow the spread of her cancer but had “100 per cent” robbed her of her first year of motherhood with Sophia, and she now faces the prospect of not having any more children.
Meanwhile, Finlayson said the turmoil of recent years has taken its toll and impacted his football career.
He was ruled out for the season in July after scans confirmed a laceration to his spleen.