next month, it will be 11 years since my mum was diagnosed with cancer. she went in for a routine colonoscopy, and was transferred straight away to a ward, where she underwent surgery less than a week later to remove part of her bowel. After almost 12 months of chemo, and radiation, she was cancer free, and has been cancer free since then. it was a pretty scary time of my life, but i will always admire the positivity my mum showed. i don’t think she ever once thought it was anything “serious”. my mum has always been a huge cancer council supporter. and i have always talked about it. but not really done much apart from the odd relay for life, and even then, since having kids i don’t think i’ve done many of them either.
fast forward to a few days ago…to where one of my wonderful neighbours and i were sitting having a cuppa, avoiding the housework. we somehow got talking about shaved heads, and raising money (no idea how)…and then and there we decided we would take part in a clip for cancer. she and i are going to be shaving our heads, and trying to raise $5000 in the process. we have convinced our husbands that even though neither of them have much hair on their heads, that maybe they could grow a beard and shave it off too. and the alpine street clip for cancer crew was born.
now, i’m not a vain person. half an hour is the usual for me to get ready to go somewhere. well, that was pre-kids, now it’s probably a bit more like 45-60mins. you know how it goes – jump in the shower, ignore whining child at shower door, jump out of the shower, break up the ‘ultimate fighting’ that is going a bit too far, apologise to neighbours for having to run through house naked while blinds are open, get dressed, break up the ‘power rangers’ fight that is going a bit too far, pull out hairdryer, hand hairdryer over to kids for a play, wrangle hairdryer back, get out hair straightener, make sure kids are safe distance from hair straightener, get 5 mins to straighten hair, wack on a bit of make up, all the while trying to avoid kids who will want to also put make up on, walk out door, drive out driveway, drive back in driveway, put kids in car, drive out driveway.
wouldn’t it be nice to skip the whole hair thing? i think so. that would save me like 20mins of my getting ready preparation! and besides, it’s only hair, right? it will grow back. and probably in my case, it will grow back within a few weeks! it’s not a big deal for me anyway, my hair is really short. andrea, however, has long hair – it’s a big change for her. but she’s like me. it’s only hair.
so anyway, long story short and all that, here’s where you can go to donate. please consider it for us. as i said, our target is $5000. can you help us hit it????
alpine street clip for cancer
and just because it feels weird not to put a photo in here….i will. i’m just not exactly sure what the kids (andrea’s and mine) are doing here, i never thought to ask!
