Donations with Dave!

Each week when I go to chemo my biggest concern (other then the fact that I have to have chemo) when I get there is that someone may have stolen my seat! It’s funny that each and every one of us that has chemo has a particular seat which we are quite fond of. Mine is down the very end of the room directly opposite the kitchen. Close to the food and easy access for my chemo buddies to fetch me bottles of water and make me cups of tea! Lately my seat has been taken (I do have a second favourite) and a few weeks ago even my backup seat was occupied. I had to sit at the opposite end of the room and I was not impressed! It just didn’t have the same vibe and definitely not as social.

The great news is that hopefully I should never have to sit in any of these chairs again. On Monday, I met with my Oncologist and due to my neuropathy symptoms I have now finished chemotherapy which I celebrated late night by having two glasses of champagne, yay! I still had five more treatments of Taxol to go but my Oncologist believes that my body just won’t cope. I will meet with her at the start of May and I fear she might try and sneak at least one more treatment in.

My team “The Roaring Twenties” has raised a massive amount of over $18,000 for the Mother’s Day Classic. My original goal was to try and raise $1000 and now thanks to all my wonderful family, friends and even some strangers I have raised over $6000. I like to make a special mention to my cousin Dave for coming up with a great idea to get me a bit of extra funds! On the first weekend of March he posted a status update on Facebook that if any of his mates sponsored me under the amount of $100 Dave would match the donation. If they donated over $100 he would mow their lawn in drag like Homer Simpson did for Ned Flanders. A big thank you to Daniel and Paul for sponsoring me that weekend; Paul donated $100.01 which meant David had to dress in drag. Lucky for me Paul lives in Townsville so my lawn was mowed instead. Thanks Dave for a good laugh and drumming up some extra sponsors for me.

Also, a huge thank you to my friend Dave for his big efforts in collecting donations from the Cabin Crew at work.

With just two weeks to go I’m hoping the rain will let up so I can get a bit more training in before the day.

Happy Easter Everyone!