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I will be making the stud dog draw on the weekend of the 2nd / 3rd October.

If you would like a free entry then please make a donation to Simone's fund - free entry for every £10 donated - we have collected over £800 so far - thanks to everyone who has contributed, I know that Simone really appreciates everyone's support.

Please keep the donations coming in

Thanks, Shirley

FANTASTIC NEWS

From Simone yesterday......

MY DONOR IS FULLY CONFIRMED!!! No more donor tests to wait for! Please remember it is 1:100 000 chance of finding an unrelated donor, God blessed me with one let alone a perfect match! This donor search has been going on since May I think. Now we just need to raise a bit more (R90 000) for the bone marrow harvest and then things can start! Will be doing my viral tests tomorrow. Please pray that these are clear, otherwise we have to treat it and wait 6 months.
I will find out what happened with the raffle tonight and post it.
Wow, I am soooo happy!
 

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I have made the stud dog draw and will be advising the 5 lucky winners by e-mail shortly. I will ask their permission to make their names public and anyone who entered the draw can contact me for a list of prize winners.

Thanks to everyone who donated to this worthy cause - we have raised £892 so far.

It doesn't end here, Simone is getting closer and closer to her potentially life-saving operation so please carry on and make donations.

I will keep you updated on Simone's progress.

Shirley

Good News from Simone

Guess whaaat…! My transplant date has been confirmed! 1 December 2010! I have to be there as soon as next week! Not sure exactly when, will find out tomorrow hopefully. Please note, the 1st of December is when the new cells go in. Its not when the chemo starts etc. Which is why I have to next week already so that I can do all the cardiology etc (full medical basically) also to get the central line in and the chemo. So all that has to happen before 1st December.
I am sure a lot of you are wondering how I am feeling about this great news. To be honest, I was not sure whether to cry from happiness or sadness or to run away or jump up and down! I have been waiting on this date for 8 grueling months, and now that it came, I didn’t know what to feel or do! I am very excited for my new beginning but naturally a bit scared. I was saying to everyone it will probably be December or later. I did not realize that December is 3 1/2 weeks away.. We were in Cape Town 2 weeks ago for the consultation, they said it would take 4-6 weeks for the donor to be activated etc. 2 weeks and 1 day later… I have a transplant date! It still feels so unreal. It’s like getting a huge present but its not even Christmas or your Birthday! Expected, but also unexpected. If you understand what I mean.
Thank you to EVERYBODY who reads my blog, supports me, thinks of me and keeps me in their prayers! I appreciate it so much. Keep an eye on the blog, its going to become interesting! We ate ourselves from the bottom of the very tall cake, now we at the cherry!

Hutch. Just interested to know that having used this site ( albeit for a very good cause )to run a money raising event, why the results are not being made public to all. I guess it's like judging a show, only for those in the inner sanctum.

Arbeiter,

I am waiting for confirmation from one person that they are OK with me making their name public and then I will post the 5 draw winners.

My job makes me cautious about mentioning people by name without their consent so I am just trying to cross the t's and dot the i's.

If I ever get to the inner sanctum, I'll let you know!

At the risk of appearing to be jumping to Arbeiter's tune, I have just received an e-mail giving me the go ahead to publish all names so the draw winers were:

1st   Heather McDonald and Dave Greer
2nd Jim Halliday
3rd  Alan Price (Somerset)
4th  Carole Lister
5th  Georgie Sheffield

Thanks so much to everyone who donated and pledged their stud dogs - we have passed on just under £1000 to Simone. You can still make donations to the fund (the expense goes on) either via the GSDL website or a cheque to me which will get paid direct into Simone's account.

I'll keep the baord updated from Simone's blog.

Good Luck Simone - we will be thinking about you on the 1st!