Well, today has been a wonderful day in terms of fundraising for my treatment.
Late last night, I spotted a post in one of the HSCT support groups from someone who had HSCT earlier this year, is making an excellent recovery, has some spare cash and wants to use it to help others. As you can imagine, he had many replies (there are literally hundreds of people from all over the world, trying to raise funds for HSCT). I added my fundraiser to the responses, thinking if I was lucky, I might receive a couple of quid from this unexpected source.
I was very pleasantly surprised this morning when I found that this kind person and his wife have donated $225 (£179) into my account. If he has paid this amount into the accounts of everyone who has responded, I reckon he will have paid out almost $10,000. What a heart warming and generous thing to do ❤️
I logged in to my fundraising page to thank the kind stranger for his donation and found I had received a message from someone I haven’t seen for many years – a school friend of my brother! He is running a half marathon in early January and is raising funds for my campaign! What an amazing thing to do! Thank you so much George.
Later at work I discovered that my manager, rather than buy all the team a small gift for Christmas, has made a donation instead. My lovely work team were in full agreement and I must admit, I had a tear in my eye when I found out ❤️
And to complete this amazing day, I came home to a letter from the tax man informing me that they are giving me a rebate of £63 …not a huge amount I know, but I usually only hear from them when the error is in the other direction!
I’ve been feeling a bit overwhelmed recently, at the enormity of the task ahead, but today has given me such a boost and I am feeling optimistic again!
We have plenty of other fundraising events coming up …
- Our evening event is almost confirmed …date to follow.
- Cal’s head (and chin) shave will take place soon.
- My mum’s coin and stamp collection is going to the sale room in January.
- Niamh and Sophie are working on an open water swimming challenge for early Summer.
- Discussions are ongoing for a sponsored tandem skydive.
- Glenda is taking part in a sponsored Nordic Walk.
- Fiona and Kyra are taking part in sponsored running events.
- Anna and Zeb have a stall at their school Christmas fair.
