tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749436707205297492.post2763997224272139127..comments2023-05-19T15:30:01.828+01:00Comments on Chris's Cancer Community: Fundraising, and a tribute to Claire SquiresChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05208572330195914101noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749436707205297492.post-25217227371915829372012-05-01T16:27:19.616+01:002012-05-01T16:27:19.616+01:00Hi Kath.
Welcome to the Community.I have j...Hi Kath.<br /> Welcome to the Community.I have just had a brief look at your blog and you have certainly had some interesting experiences!Thank you for sharing some of those, as they are invaluable to others who think that they are the only people feeling like that.<br /> You are doing some fabulous things, with your walking, and from your journey it must seem great, that you are able to do this.<br /> I agree with you with that feeling of do it while you can! I think that when we have had the sort of experiences we have had, urgent has a new meaning!<br /> Fundraising has helped me in two different ways. It has given me a focus, and helped me give something back.You are right, about the shock too. If I hadn't had my own diagnosis, I don't think I would be doing the charity work I do now.<br /> Now I am deeply involved with it, and can see how difficult life would be without the charities that do such wonderful work and help people like us and our families.<br /> I look forward to welcoming you back to the blog soonChrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05208572330195914101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749436707205297492.post-27695993900873280032012-04-30T21:48:24.056+01:002012-04-30T21:48:24.056+01:00I have started raising money not by running marath...I have started raising money not by running marathons but by walking. I have just taken part in Beefy's Great British Walk a 4 mile walk with Sir Ian Botham and also plan to take part in the Jane Tomlinson Walk in the Yorkshire Dales later on in the summer - 14miles. I just want to give something back but also something towards my future needs, as I am in Remission and will most probably need the services of these Charities again. I have to do it while I can.<br />I said started, but I have just remembered that I did a 14 mile Charity walk just after I had been diagnosed with Mantle Cell Lymphoma and told that I would die from it. I thought that it would be my first and last Charity walk, the motivation for that walk was my father, as it was in aid of Prostate Cancer sufferers. <br /><br />Not everybody can run marathons, walk or even volunteer for charities, and it often needs a shock, like a diagnosis of cancer or somebody dying too soon to give us the impetus to find a way of helping these charities, even if it is just giving money.<br />Unfortunately our society needs charities and we have to give, just give in whichever way we can.<br />Kathkathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08305591269557519382noreply@blogger.com