![]() It’s exciting that I raised over $4500.00 for cancer research and I want to thank all the generous people who have donated.” – ACRF Supporter, Ivy Bartlett I like that Australian Cancer Research Foundation is helping to find better treatments for people with cancer by giving scientists equipment and I want to support them. ![]() It would be really scary to have cancer and know you could die and never see your family again. Lots of people asked me if I was nervous about losing my long hair but I wasn’t, I just wanted the day to hurry up! Now that it’s all shaved off, I’m also going to donate it to be made into a wig for a patient who has lost their hair from cancer treatment.Ĭancer is a terrible thing. Two girls in the year above me shaved their heads last year for cancer research and I’ve always thought it would be a really cool thing to do. At that moment, I got the idea to shave my head. When I finally took it out of the braid it was in, it was like a big tangled birds nest. My hair is really long and it was getting more and more knotted from being wet so much. ![]() I was camping at a river with some friends and we’d been swimming in the river every day. She was kind and always supportive about everything we did or wanted to do.ĭeciding to do the head shave is a funny story. She died last year of cancer, and it was very sad for all of us who knew and loved her. Granny Jenny was like a second grandmother to me. I shaved my head for cancer research in memory of my grandmother’s best friend – Granny Jenny. I’m 10 years old, and enjoy horse riding, playing with my friends, board games, basketball and being with my family.
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