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Volume 6 Edition 21 ISSN 1834-0318
WEDNESDAY January 11, 2012
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Supporting the McGrath Foundation Last Tuesday was a special day for Liza Dyball and her family – Paul, James and India – when she met cricketing great Glenn McGrath at the Sydney Cricket Ground. The Dyballs were accompanied by McGrath Foundation nurse Bronnie Taylor. Their visit was to promote the cause of the McGrath Foundation, established in 2002 by Glenn and his first wife, Jane, when she was initially recovering from breast cancer. The McGrath Foundation has two main objectives: to raise money to place breast care nurses in communities across Australia as well as to increase breast awareness in young women. Liza, who has just finished her chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer, was able to speak with Mr McGrath, a number of politicians intending the Opposition Leader Tony Abbott, sport and health ministers and others, about her experience. From her first-hand experience, Liza was able to demonstrate
Breast cancer survivor Liza Dyball and McGrath breast care nurse Bronnie Taylor with Glenn McGrath in Sydney last week.
the value of the McGrath nurses, especially in rural areas. Mrs Taylor was also able to speak with politicians to emphasise the need for ongoing funding for the foundation, to ensure more women with breast cancer has access to a breast care nurse to support them through their treatment and recovery. Liza said the experience had been very rewarding. Glenn McGrath, she said was “a beautiful man and understood exactly what we have been going through. He’s lovely”. “It was my job to say ‘we’re one of the families affected. We’re the ones who appreciate the benefit of the McGrath nurses”. “This year at the cricket it was about families who have been affected by breast cancer and we have been one of those families, so I wanted to ensure I represented our family for the following reasons:
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