£247 could pay for a Macmillan nurse for a day, helping people living with cancer and their families receive essential medical, practical and emotional support. They could be there when someone’s told ‘you have cancer’, join in with celebrating someone else’s mastectomy tattoo, hold the hand of a son who’s about to lose his Mum and find something to eat for a person whose chemo has made everything taste like metal.
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'Sometimes I would tell Julie how I was feeling angry when I saw other people my age (16 at that time) who were living their life normally. Julie explained to me that it was totally normal to feel like that.' Megan, diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma |
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Your donation will help us to do whatever it takes for people living with cancer. Funds from your donation won’t be limited to the specific gift you choose, but will go towards areas of our work that need it most.