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So, I lost my late husband, Greg, to
brain cancer after a 9-year battle with
the disease. I was in my early 20s when
I woke up one night with him having a
seizure in the bed next to me. And what
then ensued was 9 years of living hell
for him. And that decade would
completely and utterly shape the rest of
my life. As time goes on, I'm able to
try and use that pain and turn it into
something a bit more powerful. And now,
as I've met so many families who've been
through brain cancer, I've met so many
researchers. I've met I've just met so
many people. This story is much bigger
than mine. Now, the brain cancer center
is trying to do medical research in a
different way. It's a collaborative
space where we encourage all the
different institutes and hospitals to
access our funds but talk to each other
collaboratively and share their wealth
of information, share their knowledge so
that we can collectively find a cure.
We've seen it in other cancers where uh
collaboration begins. That's where a
cure is found. It is the most
mind-blowingly amazing thing to think
that that's what's happening at a center
as a result of people buying a $29.95
beanie. Oh, the highlights I've had um
really vary from the monumental moments
where we raised I think $5 million in
I think it was 1 hour during our project
special, but all the way to meeting
families who've lost someone lost a
child to brain cancer and them looking
me in the eye and just saying thank you
like thank you. Somebody's got to do
something because no other family can go
through what we've gone through. like
it's hell and I understand that and I
think they're the moments for me that I
think about well into the night when I
can't sleep and then there's the other
moments like walking into a lab and the
incredible researcher next to me is
going hey this is incredible what we've
seen through here seeing the excitement
in their eyes and going that's happened
because they've been funded for the last
three years to work on a project through
our brain cancer center and through
car's beanies of brain cancer so there's
been some incredible moments in all
different areas over the last 10 years
and yeah I'm looking forward to more of
them. I mean, I'd really
love to be able to stand up in a few
years time and look Australians in the
face and go, "Our country has found a
cure for brain cancer.
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