Moontrek for Cancer Research UK

Thank you for taking the time to visit our website focussed on our charity event in aid of Cancer Research UK. We want to make a difference to people's lives throughout the world who are fighting this evil disease, and we hope to raise a bit of money to help cure and prevent it.

My name is Anthony Moon, I am 17 and I am the main organiser of Moontrek (with plenty of help from family and friends!). I enjoy fundraising for Cancer Research UK and I want to change peoples lives in the future to help find cures, methods of prevention and treatment for cancer. It is a special thing for me to fundraise for this charity because my Mum, Janice Moon, died suddenly fighting breast cancer in February 2007. This website and event is in her memory as Cancer Research UK was a charity she strongly supported. We as a family have been effected by others who suffered with cancer recently. This website is also in loving memory of Jeff Sharpe, Robbie Anderson, Syd Presscott and Irene Boam. And we are here to support Aunty Mo and Uncle Ronnie, who's strength and determination is inspiring; this website is also dedicated to you. 

people have visited this site from 26th July 07

 

It was the most painful time of my life when I saw my Mum struggling. But she amazed me every time, always smiling, never letting anything get her down. She is still the strongest lady I know.

She reached the end of her chemotherapy, still fighting on, but this made her weak. I had to keep my distance, which was the hardest part because she wasn't protected from any infections as the chemicals from chemotherapy had killed off her immune system. I couldn't even give her a hug in the last few days of her life.

When she was rushed into hospital she got a little better. She gave my dad a smile in the hospital whilst I wasn't there. The last I saw of my Mum was when she was just being kept alive by a machine and I had to say my 'goodbyes'. I wish now that I could have spent her last few hours with her. I wish I could have done something to ease her suffering.

When my Mum left me my world fell apart. I was struggling to come to terms with the changes I would have to make. The things she wouldn't see that I wanted her to see, to make her proud. The laughs I would have with her which I could no longer have. The emptiness of our home without her there. But through the infinite support of my family and closest friends, the battle through each day seems a little easier. I thank you for your support and hope you realise just how much it means to me.

Sometimes I have to keep everything bottled up inside me. Every time I feel weak and angry that my Mum was taken away from me or  upset, I have to think that my Mum wouldn't let me do that if she were here. I have to be strong like my Mum. I think the last thing my Mum would want is for me to be miserable and make everyone else miserable too. I have to take it on the chin, just as she did.

I know that my Mum will always guide me through my life. I will always be able to hear her voice telling me "you shouldn't be doing that" or "that's not the way to do it" and that will bring the happy memories flooding back. She will never be forgotten.