Supporting Maxine and Remembering Joyce

My name is Krystal and Maxine is my partner of 5 years. Maxine is currently in remission. She was diagnosed in 2022 with Classical Hodgkins Lymphoma. Lymphoma is a type of blood cancer that develops when white blood cells called lymphocytes grow out of control. Lymphocytes are part of your immune system. They travel around your body in your lymphatic system, helping you fight infections.

It was a devastating time. Maxine is known among her family, friends and community for being a bright, fun, charismatic, strong woman loved by many. Her diagnosis came as a shock to us all. Maxine has had Chemotherapy and it was successful and for now she is cancer free. This has cause Maxine to do some soul searching and during Chemotherapy Maxine decided to go back to studying and is now a qualified fitness instructor, personal trainer and sports massage therapist. She is also the proud owner of MAXIMISE IT, her personal training business and a director to Proud To Be Me C.I.C a non profit company supporting the community. This traumatic time has been immensely stressful and inspired lots of changes in Maxines life. I'd like to engage in some fundraising to donate to some amazing cancer based charities such as Macmillan who have been very supportive during Maxines treatment and beyond. But also to organise a well deserved fun filled amazing activity for her. I will be doing a sky dive. I will be doing this sky dive in support of my partner and her journey, to do something out of my comfort zone to show her my love, and admiration for her during this time. I will also have my mum close to my heart while I jump as I lost her to cancer 10 years ago. That was a traumatic time as she passed very soon after her diagnosis. As some of you may know mum passed away on the 17th August, I had to check out of hospital to go and host the funeral before going back to hospital the following day to give birth. 10 years has flown by and I wanted to do something meaningful for myself and in memory of my mum.

Please donate what you can and come along to any Proud To Be Me fundraising events.