Bri’s Breast Cancer Fundraising

Support my challenge to Step Up to Breast Cancer!

Right now, 56 people in Australia are diagnosed with breast cancer every day.

This August, I am taking part in Step Up to Breast Cancer for the mothers, sisters, daughters, friends and loves ones who are impacted by this devastating disease.

I am doing this to raise funds for National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF) to support vital breast cancer research to help save lives.

Please make a donation to support my challenge and let's step up to breast cancer together!

Thank you for your support.

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. 

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 cannot be explained. 

You never think it'll happen to you or someone you may know but it does and having had not one but two people share their story with me only in the last couple of months it makes me want to do even more 🩷