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Stolen from asimmum and girliejones...

Paul (paulhaines) Haines is a fine Australian writer, whose work I've admired for years. What I've admired even more has been the way he's dealt with his treatment for bowel cancer, in an open, public and painfully honest way. Unfortunately, it hasn't gone as we'd all hoped and prayed, and after having sections of his bowel removed and enduring six months worth of chemotherapy, he has recently discovered he has spots on his liver. Paul has met this news by reloading his guns and is going to fight it with two other forms of chemotherapy for cancers like his, combined with a monoclonal antibody called Avastin. Avastin, however is not part of Medicare or the private health system's funding at this stage. It costs $20,000 to do it. Money that he doesn't have.

So a bunch of good-hearted folks are going to try and help him raise it.

Over the coming days, they're going to start outlining their plan of action. Keep an eye on the LiveJournals of asimmum and girliejones. In the meantime, if you'd like to make a donation via Paypal, go to the original post of the subject HERE or donate here: