https://www.dailymercury.com.au/news/scholarship-winner-says-hes-stronger-after-cancer/3654105/ IN SPITE of his heartbreaking condition, Aaron Goode has never buried his head in the sand. In fact, he believes it has shaped him into the person he is today. Before his fifth birthday, MrGoode was diagnosed with medulloblastoma - a type of brain cancer - and moved from Mackay for a year to stay at the Ronald McDonald House in Brisbane. He said as a child he didn't fully grasp the gravity of the situation, or the life-threatening implications of the tumour. However, he still remembers the initial fears he had, recalling one evening when he tried to leave the hospital before being caught by one of the nurses. In the years since his stay his condition has improved tremendously and he said the ordeal had made him a stronger person. "I'd probably say it has helped me to value life in general more, to take the opportunities I can and not take anything for granted,” Mr Goode said.
"At the same time I can't let it define who I am. I'm still very much my own person outside of that, it was just another aspect. "I guess you could say it helped to develop my mental fortitude, it made me a little bit tougher.” Having recently turned 18, Mr Goode is beginning life's next chapter. Last Friday, he received $5000 from the Ronald McDonald House Charities Charlie Bell Scholarship and has moved to the Gold Coast to pursue bachelor degrees in law and government and international relations. "I was really honoured and a bit surprised that out of everyone they could have chosen, they chose me, so that was a big honour,” he said. "I'm hoping to enter a legal career for quite a few years. I'm not quite sure where exactly but I'm hoping to be some kind of lawyer or prosecutor. After that I'm considering possibly going into politics. "It just seems to be something I've always been naturally inclined to. When I went down to Canberra in grade seven it was something I really liked because ... all the big players of the nation are there.” After enduring several rounds of chemotherapy, MrGoode said he was showing no signs of the tumour and hoped his university days would be his most exciting yet. "I still go for yearly check-ups to see if there's any symptoms of it returning, but there doesn't seem to be. I believe I should be pretty much fine.”
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