CCF Online Fundraiser

This is the sort of fundraising that I like. Nobody phones you in the middle of dinner or blocks the entrance to your favourite bookshop or makes you feel guilty for walking past with a $5 cappuccino in hand. I'm all for it. Find a worthy cause and donate online, because you want to, not because you were guilted into it.

I've been following Shanells blog, Kyahs Journey, which is a most heart-wrenching read as it follows her small daughters fight with neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer that is linked to some genetic variation. As far as cancers go generally, I believe that striving for prevention through lifestyle management (eat your veges! move your lazy ass!) is the best path at the moment. But I also personally know of six people that have had cancer and three of them were already doing 'everything right', so there is a whole lot more to it, especially as regards childhood cancers. It's not like a one year old has been giving their body 20 years of abuse. I used to be in with a crowd that were very judgemental of traditional cancer treatments and thought, in an almost religious way, that all cancers were caused by 'toxins'. And then one of them got Hodgkins disease and died of it at the age of 29, even though the doctors gave him a 90% chance of survival if he had agreed to chemotherapy. If I got cancer, I'd be doing it all - natural therapies, 'allopathic' therapies, anything on offer, and I like to think that 'someone out there' is doing the research that will reveal more about why cancer occurs.

So, healthy people, give it up for Kyahs brothers and dad whom are shaving their heads to raise money to support the families of child cancer victims and some of the money goes to research. It's their Funrazor (get it?).