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NHS "Nurses Head Shave"

Alison Purkiss is raising money for Cancer Research UK
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NHS "Nurses Head Shave" · 19 November 2016

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The reason I'm doing the head shave is having lost my mum to cancer when I had  just turned 20, it had a major impact on the rest of my life. My sister was diagnosed with breast cancer 4 years later when she was only  29years old. My husband was diagnosed with prostrate cancer when my daughter Mae was just 1 year old then a year later the cancer came back and he had to have radiotherapy. 

Cancer has impacted so much on my life and caused the people I love so much heartache that we need to cure it. I am really not looking forward to shaving my head but feel it is a very small price to pay to show sufferers that we care about how they feel and are aware that losing their hair is one of the worst things about cancer and it's treatment even putting some people off having their  life saving treatment. My own Mum was so worried about losing her hair when she had her chemotherapy. 

But my hair will grow back and we are aware some cancer sufferers aren't so lucky. We need to raise as much money as we can to help cure this horrible disease that still has any person diagnosed with it trembling with fear and worried about dying. No child should lose their parent and maybe with research we can stop cancer killing people .

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Donation summary

Total
£1,003.58
+ £127.50 Gift Aid
Online
£928.58
Offline
£75.00

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