Jul 8, 2026 · 48 min · 13 segments
In this episode of the Talking Blood Cancer podcast, host Kate Arkadieff speaks with Jacinta Smith about her journey facing acute myeloid leukaemia. Jacinta shares her experience from the initial…
Jacinta SmithGuest
Kate ArkadieffHost
And every episode we do ask our guests, are there any golden nuggets that you could offer to somebody who's listening today? They potentially could be someone just diagnosed or through treatment or having a transplant themselves, but anything that you would offer other than what you've already done.
But first off, stay strong and positive throughout your journey and make sure you surround yourself with people who have that mindset.
But in their experience, the people with the positive mindset have better outcomes.
Go to emergency as soon as you have any of the symptoms, if they will outline to you what you have to watch out for.
After my first incidence, I went there several times for things that turned out to be not really much, but they're like, no, come in because you never know.
Stay fit and strong throughout your journey so that you have a better chance of recovery.
And probably the last thing would be is ask lots of questions of the medical staff so that you know what's going on, so you're involved, so you know everything.
And you're getting the information from the right source so that you're not to just Google stuff and get something that's from another country or something that's outdated that's alarmist and get it from the source and get it right.
I think that they're so important that you've highlighted them and I really speak to a lot of them myself and I think that for those listening, do consider taking on the advice because they're simple things that you can do and as you showed through our conversation that being fit, you did have your frustrations and it's not running a marathon but it's just doing what you can and adapting to your situation.
And every episode we do ask our guests, are there any golden nuggets that you could offer to somebody who's listening today? They potentially could be someone just diagnosed or through treatment or having a transplant themselves, but anything that you would offer other than what you've already done.
But first off, stay strong and positive throughout your journey and make sure you surround yourself with people who have that mindset.
But in their experience, the people with the positive mindset have better outcomes.
Go to emergency as soon as you have any of the symptoms, if they will outline to you what you have to watch out for.
After my first incidence, I went there several times for things that turned out to be not really much, but they're like, no, come in because you never know.
Stay fit and strong throughout your journey so that you have a better chance of recovery.
And probably the last thing would be is ask lots of questions of the medical staff so that you know what's going on, so you're involved, so you know everything.
And you're getting the information from the right source so that you're not to just Google stuff and get something that's from another country or something that's outdated that's alarmist and get it from the source and get it right.
I think that they're so important that you've highlighted them and I really speak to a lot of them myself and I think that for those listening, do consider taking on the advice because they're simple things that you can do and as you showed through our conversation that being fit, you did have your frustrations and it's not running a marathon but it's just doing what you can and adapting to your situation.
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