Lucy Creamer
Lucy's Day of Dares
Fundraising for The Brain Tumour Charity
Story
Please take the time to read this message and understand why I'm doing this:
For those of you who don't know, my mother, Mary-Anne Hamer, was diagnosed with a grade 4 brain tumour called Glioblastoma in June 2017. She died on the 30th of March 2020.
If you Google how long patients have to live (which is what I did when I first found out), you'll find this:
'The average survival time is 12-18 months - only 25% of glioblastoma patients survive more than one year, and only 5% of patients survive more than five years.'
I didn't expect my mum to live as long as she did. The final seven months didn't really feel like she was living, but we tried to make her as comfortable as possible. One day, I hope that no one will ever experience what I, and hundreds of other families, have experienced. For now, this complicated cancer still exists, but charities like The Brain Tumour Charity are looking to change that.
They are one of the largest dedicated funders of research into brain tumours globally. Committed to saving and improving lives, they're moving further, faster to help every single person affected by a brain tumour. They're set on finding new treatments, offering the highest level of support and driving urgent change.
Their strategy has two over-riding goals. These are to:
- Double survival within 10 years in the UK. Their goal is to halve the average years of life lost to a brain tumour from 20.1 to 10 years by 2025.
- They aim to halve the harm caused by brain tumours by 2020 in the UK.
Thank you so much for reading this. You've now been informed of a charity you might not have known about and a tumour you didn't know the danger of.
If you can donate anything, please do. Minimum donations for dares are £5, but you can just donate without suggesting one. You're contributing towards helping a family who's going through the struggle we've experienced. On behalf of me and my family, thank you.