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Monday 2 July 2012

Macmillan cancer support, they support you, so please support them!

Thank you very much for taking the time to read my blog! I am Mya, and I am advocating the charity Macmillan Cancer Support, and I feel that they need more donating to help have the money to help other people across the globe. When you’ve read my blog, I hope you will know a bit more about the problems which anyone, any age can face, and I hope you will want to help.

This is *Lucy’s story... Lucy was a 53 year old woman who just found out she had breast cancer. As most women would feel, she was mortified. She didn’t know what to do, and she didn’t have the courage straight away to tell her partner, family, and closest friends. She did some research online and came across Macmillan Cancer Support. She saw a tag on the home page which said ‘I’ve just been diagnosed’ and clicked on it. She saw the number, and rang them for help on what to do. They advised her to tell her family and friends, because she would need the support near on in the future. She took this advice and told her family, and of course they were all supportive. When going under the knife, she had everyone she needed supporting her, and she came back fighting, as she had beaten the cancer, as the operation had gone successfully. Everyone was overjoyed, and so was she. She said this was the best help she had, and she would advise it to anybody who was going through cancer, as they have the best advice, and if you have no one to go to, they would still be there for you every step of the way. Sadly, she then got another cancer in her stomach at 56, which couldn’t be treated by an operation; she was going to die. She rang up Macmillan Cancer Support again and they gave her the best advice they could; ‘Make sure you tell everyone, so they know, but don’t let them be down, be happy, and don’t let the cancer beat you. Just because you know you that it’s the end, doesn’t mean that you can’t smile. Smile, it’s not over yet, it’s just the end of you. If you know that it’s your time, then the cancer hasn’t beat you, you’ve beat the cancer.’

Thank you so much again for reading my blog!

So what is the point of this?
You may be thinking ‘Well what does this have to do with me?’ Well, one day, you or someone you love might get cancer, and you might need this help. But what are you going to do when there is no one to help you, and there is no one you can go to? Not being able to go to Macmillan because no body funded them any money, so they had to be shut down, then what will you do? If you help raise awareness, and even consider donating to the charity, you could have that help if you need it.

Thank you once again for reading my blog; it would be really helpful if you answered some questions below. If you answer these question, please could you leave the town or city where you come from, as it would helpful to me to see who has been reading my blog and where they have come from.
  • Where do you come from?
  • Have you heard about Macmillan cancer before? If not, do you feel more informed about the charity?
  • Would you now consider donating to the charity, and raising awareness? If so, how?
  • Have I changed your attitude towards the charity and how?

Here is the link to the website; http://www.macmillan.org.uk/Home.aspx
Thank you, again!
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