Relayforlife in secondlife – Breaking records

Camping is so much fun and I’m just a big kid at heart, so when Fay announced the early opening of the RFL sims I was wrapt. 37 sims built by SL’s best creators are open for just over 24 hours.

What a full 24 hours it’s going tol be:) Each team strives to keep at least one team member walking the 10,907 metre track all the time. It takes about an hour and forty mnutes to complete.

And its going to be so distracting with lots and lots of interesting places tempting me to visit.

Anatomica has just the places for you to unwind.

Tai-Chi and a flower filled garden to restore harmony

or maybe take to the stars?
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I reckon I have the best birthday venue in any both worlds for 2009 🙂 My dream to get donations to match the 7500 USD raised by the Friends Fighting Cancer Team is getting closer and excitement is mounting as fast as the dollars are rising in Second Life.

It’s getting harder to remember the times during treatment when it seemed there was no light and little hope. It’s easy to feel very small and insignificant while those around get on with the busyness of healing and caring.

Sharing your Journey

Add to the light today – your donation saves lives. http://tinyurl.com/lmkbz2
or here http://relayforlife.org.au/

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Relay for Life camp in Second Life

INSIDE EACH OF US IS A TINY WORLD

I spent the most wonderful afternoon exploring the FFC campsite at the RFL in SL. Our campsite encompasses an entire region and has been brilliantly built by talented creators. Zander, Lauren, Felix and Grafix not only created a beautiful looking camp but made it educational and therapeutic too.

Pictures and information from the camp will tell the story:

Inside each of us is an amazing world

“There is a world within each of us…a world where the smallest things wield incredible power…a world where nothing is bigger than HOPE!”

Welcome to Anatomica: City of the Hero Cell!!

We begin this adventure by meeting the Hero Cells. Our Hero Cells are white blood cells, the key players in the body’s immune system.

Meet the Hero cells

And we continue to learn and train for our Hunt for the Nemesis!

Time to learn how to recognise the enemy

Learning who is good and who is bad.

Amazing creations help us train for our Blood Stream Mission

EEEPS!

The time has come…

You are now entering the battle zone

Wow!!! A chemo-missile equipped cell to ride!

Training done, armour on and ready for battle

This blood stream is utterly amazing.

Tumor alert

Take aim….FIRE!

Another one bites the dust!

I can’t believe how much pleasure I got out of blasting the bad guys to bits and watching them disappear :):):) This is an incredible visualisation tool and oh so therapeutic 🙂

To be continued…

One (small) World! One (BIG) Hope! Until there is a cure WE RELAY!! Your support matters http://tinyurl.com/lmkbz2

1 person dies of cancer every 4 seconds in this world – every day

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Relay For Life in Second Life

Wow you have to see this to believe it!

On July 18th Relay for Life in SL takes place. The track and team camps span 37 sims, that’ s over 1.5m square metres of virtual real estate. Team camps range from small plots of land to an entire region of just over 65,000 square metres. Friends Fighting Cancer have a whole region called Anatomica, which I’ll show you more of later.

Each square is a 65,000 square metre region

Each of the 120 plus RFL Teams has spent weeks and months planning their build (camp), each with a special theme to help raise awareness and funds to fight cancer.

The cancer survivors and carers lap will follow a pathway around all these regions. When I first joined the FFC team I was told stories of past walks, listened to tales of the friendships made and the tears of joy and sadness that were shed. And the strength, peace and comfort people found in the company of those who understood. Yet still I didn’t register for the walk of honor.

Why was I reluctant to stand with the other survivors? Well, I believed that what you thought most about you would attract into your life – so I wasn’t going to focus on a disease I had been treated for and left behind me. Sheesh even my poor doctors have to drag me in for checkups! It’s amazing how forgetful you can become when you want to 🙂

Working and meeting all the passionate, strong and caring people these past couple of months. Listening to others who had taken the same journey and especially those who are still fighting their own battle, gave me the courage to sign up to walk that lap as a survivor.

Luminaries line the track ready for purchase

In the company of these heros and heroines I discovered that cancer was not something you just accepted as part of life, something you got, dealt with and if you were lucky put behind you. I learned that by sharing we grow stronger, we give hope and most of all we do NOT have to accept cancer as part of life – we CAN fight back.

One person dies of cancer every four seconds in this world – every four seconds of every day.

We can start saving lives now: http://tinyurl.com/lmkbz2

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CELEBRATE more birthdays

CELEBRATE
Almost four years ago I first heard those scary words – “You have advanced breast cancer.” Swallowing deeply, blinking fast refusing to allow tears to fall, I looked at the doctor and said, “ok what do we need to do?”

From that moment onward a whirlwind of activity took over, hospital, surgery, chemotherapy, said goodbye to long blond hair, saved a fortune on hair products, discovered I have a cool shaped head and topped the lot off with radiation. One hell of a year and even worse for my family, but it passed and I’m still here!

I was given a 50% chance, I’m still here and I’m not the only one! On the 18th of July there will be a track full of international survivors and carers powered by their computers. As we walk that first lap of celebration, I dream of the dollars dropping in from the website to double our teams efforts. We have already raised over $7500 USD in Second life and my birthday wish is to match that and celebrate another blow to the enemy.

You can save lives now – celebrate someones birthday and donate here: http://tinyurl.com/lmkbz2

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