I'm stepping up against cancer!
This year, I’m taking on Relay For Life to raise funds for every person who’s ever heard the words: “you have cancer”. In 2023, more than 134, 000 Australians will receive the news. Among them are our friends, families and colleagues.
Cancer is a devastating disease for so many. For people living with cancer, their treatments can be long and stressful. For those without solutions, the future can be uncertain. It’s a concern shared by their loved ones.
But with your support, I hope to help as many people impacted by cancer as possible. Together, we can support families when they need it most, empower people to reduce their risk, speak up for communities, and find new ways to better detect and treat cancer.
Every step I take is one closer to a cancer free future. But I can’t do it alone! Please donate to my Relay today and together, we can help Cancer Council provide life-changing support services, advocacy, prevention and research across Australia.
Thank you for stepping up. Together we’ll make powerful strides against cancer!
So far this year I've helped provide:
My Updates
For Catherine 💐🩷
One week to go!
For the fallen 🥀
It's two weeks until the lutruwita/Hobart Relay for Life and our team; 'Sense of Tumour' are close to reaching our first target goal in fundraising.A huge thank you to Amelia, Josh & Timothy for helping me edge closer to my second donations goal to help Cancer Council provide life-changing support services, advocacy, prevention and research across Australia. And to Tim for sharing his story with me ❤️🩹
I reflected a lot on the impact that cancer has had; a devastating one on my own life and the grief and loss that this travesty causes. 1 in 2 people get cancer. Children & animals aren't immune either. And it has taken so much from me already. This year I am going to dedicate laps to my lost loved ones and hope that what I am doing by raising and securing funding makes a difference in the lives of those dealing with this battle.
Two of my grandparents had died battling cancer. My grandfather Peter; who was one of the most magical men I had ever known, who would tell me fairytales with such gusto and brought these dreams out into his garden and made me believe in fairies and magic by creating a little world I could escape to- a world I intend on fighting for now.
My Tayta (grandmother) Sophia who raised me; a warm person in her personality and embrace, who fought fiercely to protect me as a child and loved all of the women that I became, unconditionally. Her kitchen and skin always smelt amazing and her cooking was the worlds greatest: secret ingredient is love. And if you wondered where I got my attitude from..
My niece Sophia's (her name sake) other grandmother, Jayne (yes, Sophia's middle name) passed away battling a long suffered and scary battle with cancer just shortly after my dad had passed. Our household had sat with grief and death lingered in our doorway for so long. We know all too well what the sickness looks like when it ravishes your body, the exhaustion, the agony and the aftermath. I'll be running a lap for Jayne and my extended family, and for little Sophia who lost two grandparents too soon.
And to my darling Jane, my adopted mother. Jane would bring her son Joey into my work for educational purposes and because he adores animals. And they quickly decided to adopt me; she was so supportive and saw how stressed and strung out I was dealing with life- and watching my dad slowly struggle and die. She came in regularly just to check up on me and squeeze me in her loving arms. She helped out so much and so often and was one of the greatest volunteers I had- her knowledge on ferrets and fish really bailed me out. And her company on hard days always filled me up with a sense of hope for better days. Near the end of her life, she would come in and sit silently on the stairs with me and it meant everything. The grace, humilty and strength she had is one of the greatest lessons I have ever learned.
And for Gail; I promised I will do laps for her son Ethan ❤️🩹 I had the privilege of writing to you while you walked this plane; for Ethan- who loved animals and trains and was a bright spark and a mirror of Gail. For all your love and support in my life; I am more than sorry for your loss. Gail had been my own support worker at the time I was diagnosed with CPTSD and played a huge role in my recovery journey and was still active in my life as her world was flipped upside down because how dare childhood cancer exist. It isn't fair or right, it's not just or deserved and this is why I fight back.
And last week I mentioned it took my dog too. For Rosie, (osteosarcoma riddled her body) sunshine on a winters day, I inhaled your fur and hid away from the rest of the world when it got too hard in pens and paddocks beside you my girl. Fuck cancer.
Please- I am again asking for everyones support, if you can make a donation- your help can tackle every aspect of every cancer; funding life-changing cancer research, prevention and advocacy — and it provides relief & support for those battling and their families.
For my dad
He dropped me off at the tracks to join the Hevey's & Sense of Tumour for The Relay for Life in April that year; I finished work late the night before; arrived before the sun had and joined the jog "in the fog".
I'm hoping to complete the full weekend around the tracks because we have lost too much to this fight; I want to give back and make my dad proud again 💗
I am fund-raising for Sense of Tumour in the Hobart / Lutruwita Relay for Life. I'm hoping I'll have enough intestinal fortitude and strength to be able to do the two days worth of laps and have been preparing to do as many as it takes!
This is a cause that's close to my heart as cancer had devastated my life since I was a child; my dad had first been diagnosed with brain tumours when I was only around 7 years old; he was terminally ill and meant to die around then, but it was research, funding and "giving a shit" that held him on to dear life, he lived with a dormant tumour for decades after the first operation.
Dad had succumb to stage 4 small cell that had ravished his body, spreading from his lungs to his liver and throughout. I found him having a seizure in his bedroom, which shattered his shoulder completely as he fell to the floor before he went directly into palliative care and passed away. My dad looked skeletal and not much of him remained. We had been left with a lot of medical expenses and funeral costs too; a lot of charities and loved ones helped cover these, I wanna give back.
I watched cancer kill my dad. It killed my Tayta, it killed my grandfather, last year it killed Sophias grandmother Jayne, my friend Jane and fuck, cancer even killed my dog 💔
Fuck Cancer!
I've already smashed my first target, thanks to Mischa, Ellie, Marina, Maddie and Orana and am going to keep upping the limit so I can raise as much help & hope as I can in this fight 🥊🥊
If you can spare, please donate
Thank you to my Sponsors
$48.53
Luis Ramirez Jr
$26.38
Bec Miller
Love you girl 🩷
$21.10
Amanda
Well done Ange. Such a great cause ❤️
$60
Linda Valentine
For Tayta. Love you. All the best for the walk Ang xo
$34.56
Tim Ozimec
My best friend is currently fighting Hodgkins Lymphoma. Her outlook is good after these last couple months of chemo, but it's still terrifying. I've never been able to relate to the fear of a loved one having cancer until now. I'm sorry for the loss of your father back in 2022, it must have been awful, like nothing else.
$42.20
Josh Hastie
I hope even a little bit this can help people and families impacted by cancer. Another year, another great fight against cancer!.
$10
Amelia Whiteley
$105.50
Ellie
Much love <33
$33.76
Mischa Calcagno
$21.10
Marina Chapman
$21.10
Orana Loren
$20
Maddie
I love you and I’m proud of you ❤️
$28.02
Angela Calam
$30
