(Excerpt from My Health Story founder Soula Mantalvanos’ advocacy website pudendalnerve.com.au)
Life can pile it on, as we all know, but Cancer is a pile of its own. Even after 16 years of managing a chronic health issue, I can’t begin imagining it.
Health experiences are certainly not to be compared. What we need is compassion, unity, support and fast recovery!
But I feel this situation I’m writing about has a cruel irony. How can Painaustralia’s CEO, Giulia Jones, be diagnosed with breast cancer?
As we know though, any health issue can happen to any of us at any time – oh life!
A few months ago and just appointed as CEO of Painaustralia, I was chatting to Giulia, who was making time to connect with people living with pain; our next step would be an interview for some media. Instead, I received an awful message.
Giulia is a tough cookie, watch our chat and feel that fire in her! And she’ll be using that fire to put this awful experience to great use – raising funds for So Brave and Painaustralia as she shaves her hair on 31 July.
I want us all to get behind her.
It’s an opportunity to maximise this incredible act of bravery and help two causes that inflict such grief on so many people; Cancer and chronic pain.
All funds raised will go to the So Brave breast cancer charity and Painaustralia the peak body representing those in chronic pain – we’ll be helping a considerable group of people with one donation.
Read the personal message I received from Giulia below to see additional ways to help and also learn what extraordinary work So Brave does.
Or, you can get straight to the donation page via this link.
I will also donate EVERY subscription amount of $49 made on My Health Story until 31 July 2023.
So if you’ve considered organising your health info with My Health Story, here’s more inspiration. Sign up here and then email me (or leave a note in the sign-up form) and I’ll send you a receipt of the donation; thanks to you!
Let’s get to it! There are just days to go until 31 July, when Giulia shaves her beautiful hair off.
*••••*! Cancer!!
