Australia's Biggest Morning tea will be very special for Flowerdale's Elaine Parry, for it will be her last one. She'll be joined by her friend of 30 years, Marion Hubble who has survived breast cancer twice.
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00:00 We want to make it a super one to go out on, go out of a bang.
00:04 I started off having it in my lounge room
00:19 and I was really chuffed for my first one. I raised nearly $100, which I thought was great.
00:25 And the last one I done we raised nearly $13,000 so it's a big step from that $100.
00:36 I'm actually going to help Elaine as well because it is very important that that work
00:44 A) gets out there for the public to see that something is being done and to also help the
00:52 Cancer Council. What makes the Biggest Morning Tea special for you? Knowing that it helps other
00:59 cancer survivors and other cancer patients and yeah it goes a long way to that. Well it started
01:07 probably in 2006 in about the September where I found a sizable lump in a breast and I knew that
01:22 I had a mammogram coming up within the next two months. But yes this was quite large. I had to
01:30 have a whole lot of tests and it turned out to be an aggressive grade 3 cancer.
01:37 I had a mastectomy and then went through chemo which was horrendous and radiation
01:49 which I used the Cancer Council bus to go to Launceston for and so yeah the Cancer Council
01:58 has helped me. Thank you. Then you think you're right but no, eight years later I got cancer in
02:07 the other breast. But that one was called a triple negative so we went through chemo again
02:16 so yes anyway survived the triple negative and that was nine years ago and I'm still here.
02:22 So there you go.
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