Charity starts at home, so says the maxim and it doesn't get closer to home than this. My wife, Stephanie is suffering from stage 4, or secondary breast cancer. Also know as metastatic breast cancer.Simply put; secondary breast cancer means that the original cancer has spread to other parts of the body and is now incurable.  In Stephanie's case her breast cancer has spread to her liver and is also spreading to different parts of her skeleton.  While secondary breast cancer is incurable it is treatable with people going on to have months or, in some cases, even years of good quality life, enjoying time with their families and friends.

Long term survival rates are so low that the NHS has now stopped distributing some of the more expensive drugs that prolong life to sufferers
The Cancer Drug Fund (of England) that supplements this NHS shortfall is now having to also withhold some of its funding.
There is an implication there that one will die anyway - so does it really matter?
YES it does matter. A person's quality of life matters. Their final years matter.
They matter.
We matter.

My proposal is to donate our annual expenditure of our wedding anniversary to this cause. Will you do the same for just one year?

OR you menfolk could donate what you  'ought' to be spending and the girls should donate the amount they think their man should spend on them!!

 I am not asking you to gift any money that you wouldn't have already spent. I am asking for your generosity and donations so that for one year you will go without so that others may hopefully see another few more years to come.

For much more info and a little entertainment please read the following blog, from a sufferer of stage 4 breast cancer.
http://discombobulateddel.blogspot.com.es/

The only sure way that one has been cured from cancer is to die, of something completely different many many years later.

18/05/15  Stephanie passed away in Cornhill Hospice on the 17th of April 2015

Angus