I live in Western Australia.  As of 31 January 2022, I will not be allowed to be with my husband, or visit at any stage whilst he recovers, when he is scheduled to undertake his whipple procedure for pancreatic cancer.  A cancer that is the worst thing you've ever had to hear a person be diagonised with and I'm sure many people can relate to, and an operation that has significant risks.   In the booklets provided by the Cancer Council it states that people with cancer have the right to choose what treatments they have, if any, because they are adults and can make their own informed choices.  However, it is a different subject matter that when a healthy adult chooses not to have a medical treatment to be denied access to  their loved one in hospital, and basically that they will be subjected to medical apartheid, even though they pose no risk to anyone, whilst those who partake of the medical treatment can and do pose a significant risk - and by that I mean visitors and the medical staff.  You only have to look at the data coming out of Israel and the UK and other parts of Australia to show that what I say is the truth.   If the Cancer Council or any advocates care about people with cancer and their loved ones, tell me how to advocate for the right to be with my husband, against a system that discriminates and segregates parts of it society.  I won't hold my breathe that I'll succeed as how do you fight 'city hall'.  But I fear that I'm not alone, even though I am. ... View more