sexual health<\/a> and not leaving it in someone else\u2019s hands.<\/p>\nNow with \u201cthousands of hours\u201d of hard work behind the scenes since Ema\u2019s initial brainwave, her dream to get the condoms in even more women\u2019s hands is coming true.<\/p>\n
Oh Cleoh has been on shelves for the past six months, with the next goal to expand into the South Island and eventually internationally.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019d love to see any Kiwi woman be able to pop a pack of Cleohs in with her weekly shop!\u201d Ema smiles.<\/p>\n
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Life has changed dramatically for Ema since her illness. Photo \/ Woman’s Day<\/p>\n
Along with running the business, Ema is back, relief-teaching a couple of days a week, but life has changed dramatically since her illness. She still deals with hearing loss, balance and cognition issues, facial numbness, fatigue and yearly MRIs to ensure the residual brain tumour that couldn\u2019t be removed remains stable.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not as energised as I used to be,\u201d she reflects. \u201cEven a simple trip away or going out for dinner with girlfriends can make me really tired for a couple of days. I haven\u2019t quite accepted the new Ema is a bit boring, so I keep doing stuff, then suffering for it!\u201d <\/p>\n
Yet despite these challenges, she continues to look on the bright side.<\/p>\n
Ema enthuses, \u201cI believe in living fully, and teaching my children that we can get through anything and do anything! My tumour forced me to pause, reflect, rediscover my strength, and reignite my natural confidence and courage to get out there to do what I wanted to do without feeling judged.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ema with her husband Ants. Photo \/ Hannah Baker At the time, Ema, now 37, was recovering from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[48967,1596,138,235522,18478,71,296,685,424,55315,1956,2721,111,139,69,26884,1881,96264,213,1355,1037,6290,107,4468,21733,32951,6123,2834],"class_list":["post-464882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-beards","tag-brain","tag-business","tag-condom","tag-course","tag-from","tag-into","tag-last","tag-life","tag-mangawhai","tag-mind","tag-mum","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-recovering","tag-recovery","tag-shifted","tag-sports","tag-starting","tag-startup","tag-surgery","tag-then","tag-thing","tag-tumour","tag-turns","tag-while","tag-womens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}