National Breast Cancer Foundation

I'VE PLEDGED TO GO PINK FOR Nanny Sandra 21/5/1944 - 13/1/1996

"I won't be there to see her grow up" Was my Nans heartbreaking answer to "what's wrong?" whilst tears ran down her face after we had been giggling to each other. She was the first person I giggled with at almost 4 months old.. I don't remember her voice but these words play on repeat in my head everyday. My Nan is my guardian angel. She has proved this many times, she is watching over all of us and keeping us safe.. I feel her presence, I feel her support and there is no doubt that when I do stupid things she's either shaking her head or laughing her arse off! My Nan was an amazing person! She was at her happiest when everyone was around her and when they were happy. She did everything in her power for other people. My mum has so many traits of her personality and character.. She said it how it was, so does my Mum and most of the time, so do I. Nan had a mammogram when she was 46, they told her it was clear. In February 1995 when she was only 50 she went to her doctor because she was still in pain, and it was not a pinched nerve as they had all previously tried to tell her. She then went to a Breast Cancer Specialist, who (from what we have only found out earlier this year), was absolutely furious as he looked at her mammogram images from 4 years earlier, that CLEARLY showed that she had cancer. She started radiation therapy and had a mastectomy immediately. I was Mums first baby, born in September 1995. Nan passed away in January 1996. The health system then compared to now has drastically changed, but it's still not enough. There are still so many questions unanswered. Maybe one day there will be 'cure', maybe one day there will be no more deaths. There are so many amazing people out there working so hard every single day to get to zero deaths. One day there will be an answer... there has to be! I know you're always watching over me, I wish we had more time together.. that we got the chance to have more photos and memories shared and that you got to watch me grow up from down here. I only hope you're proud of who I am or at least who I am trying to be 🩷 I love you Nan x

I have pledged to GO PINK for all of June.

Support my GO PINK pledge to save lives and make a difference. Together, let's make Zero Deaths from breast cancer possible!

Did you know that every day 56 people in Australia are diagnosed with breast cancer and 9 people die from this disease?

This June, I've made a pledge to WEAR IT and COLOUR IT to raise funds for world-class breast cancer research to help NBCF towards their vision of Zero Deaths from breast cancer.

My pledge is in memory of my Grandmother, Sandra 🩷

This year hits a little different, in December I had my own scare after finding a lump in my right breast. Though thankfully instead of cancer it appears to be multiple clusters of clustered cysts, uncomfortable and painful but not life threatening. But for the first time, I lived those moments that thousands of people have lived before. The waiting for answers, the scans, the blood tests, practically living at my GP and the constant fears of 'what if'.

It was not to the extent people who are unfortunately diagnosed with breast cancer get to, but it was a real eye opener to how those initial moments feel, and I feel so deeply remorseful for the ones that get that heartbreaking diagnosis. So please support my GO PINK pledge to save lives and make a difference.

I don’t want to say goodbye to my best friend, my mum, the same way she had to.

My Grandmother found out she had breast cancer when she was 50 years old, she sadly passed away at the young age of 51, I was barely 4 months old at the time.

She was told by many doctors that the pain she was experiencing was simply a pinched nerve or something similar. She was in pain for 2-4 months but was too scared to tell my mum, worried she would miscarry me as she had had many miscarriages herself, before having a hysterectomy at 35.

When they finally removed her breasts they discovered they were both riddled with cancer and that it had gotten into her lymph nodes… by the end of that year she had passed away. She knew for 1 year… yet they said she could have had it for up to 10 years all together.

My Nan was 1 of 6 children, 2 boys and 4 girls. Out of the 4 sisters 2 passed away from breast cancer. 50%!

Though I don’t remember her I have a bond that can not be explained.

So please donate to this cause, together, we can stop deaths from breast cancer.

Please support my GO PINK pledge to save lives and make a difference.