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A party of a lifetime! Fundraiser Night!

Last Saturday night was a party of a lifetime for me. Words cannot describe how blessed I am to have have wonderful family and friends attend the event and the businesses and people who I've never met come down and celebrate my life and help raise money and awareness of my fight against GBM. It still shows that there are some amazing people in this world, who are willing to give rather than recieve. I think this life has so many good people and you know what? Good things happen to good people too! My wonderful sister Sarah, brother in law Michael and my other amazing sister Amanda organised an Fundraiser to help support myself and my family to raise money to help with expensive medical treatment and help raise money to help me through this Clinical Trail I am on. I love you guys so much, to Heaven and Earth and back!

This amazing night was held at the Hidden Valley Golf & Country Club with around 250 people attending with lots of auction prizes, raffles and the amazing Crossway band blasting some awesome 80s music. It was a night to celebrate life, be thankful for the loved ones we have and the time we have on this earth. My sister made an amazing speech saying 'You shouldn't wait until you got cancer to go live your life, if you have a grudge or a problem with someone go fix it, life is way to short'. Everyone was happy and it made me feel really special. I was so happy I got to make it after treatment and got to spend and see as much people as I possibly could.

I would like to take this oppurtinity to thank everyone who came to the night and the businesses who made this happen. It was definitely awesome seeing community at it's best. You have all made a contribution that is going to help me fight against this terrible disease. Not only are you all helping me fight this medically, you are restoring dreams in my life. Just the things in life, like a chance of being a future Dad or getting through University or getting a job back. Extending my life. You also have given other cancer patients hope and awareness for Brain Cancer.

Please stay in tuned for photos and updates. If you live in Northern Victoria you can find it all in the local paper for the 'Free Review'.

Bless you all!



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