Show Sam how much she means to us all!

I have set up this Gofund me to ask for support for Sam and her family as they face an incredibly difficult time and long road ahead.

Sam has recently been diagnosed with Oral Cancer!

Currently non life threatening, however without a doubt, life changing.

Sam is in need of a reliable vehicle, after her beloved little car was stolen and burnt out by vandals 'for fun' .

Upsetting enough, now even more so given Sam's diagnosis.

Without a reliable vehicle, and living in George Town, Sam has no reliable way of getting to and from her appointments, surgeries, and follow up consultations.

A little background on Samantha May Litchfield: born Christmas day 52 years ago.

Sam posses a strong work ethic, spending a great majority of her working life within Seasonal fields, Currently an employee at George Town seafood, this is no longer an option for the near future given her health.

Sam's life is dedicated to her 4 children, raised as a single mum after leaving 2 abusive relationships.

A W.A girl at heart, in love with a cheeky Tassie boy, she relocated to the small town of George Town Tas.

Quite possibly the best and worst decision she ever made.

After the breakdown of this relationship, isolated, lonely, broke and cold with 4 young children, Sam walked to GT seafood to ask for a job, being employed as a scallop splitter, something Sam had never done, and being a left hander, and paid by the KG, this was a hard way to make a $.

Sam, never afraid of hard work even when it meant 5:30am starts.

Sam's strength of Character and dogged determination has helper her face down every challenge, nothing is impossible with Sam's attitude and commitment.

I believe it's time Sam caught a break!

Not one to ever give up and stubborn as a mule Sam has faced many challenges, including but not limited to surviving some of Tassies harshest winters in a tent, held together with duct tape, walking 8kms each way to work every day, being reversed over in the driveway of BWS bottle shop on her birthday/Christmas day.

Sam was an absolute rock for her children, (ages 17 & 20 at the time) and their younger siblings by another mother, when their father died of pancreatic cancer, not 6 short years ago.

Sam has welcomed and loved her children's siblings like they were her own family, as does she their mother.

Her appendix so painful, rushed to hospital at the LGH in an ambulance, Sam's treatment was appalling.

Disrespected, rude and nasty assumptions made; and proved inaccurate, ignored, de humanised, and made to feel insignificant.

Then let her appendix burst flooding her body with poison, the staff refused to plug her phone into a charger.

Allowing her condition to deteriorate she was to stay longer in hospital, at the height of Covid, no visitors and no opportunity to even contact family and friends. In her own words "I've never been treated so horrible in all my life".

Sam has another very special best friend in her life, Floyd, he beloved and loyal dog.

Floyd saved Sam from a deep depression, when her positive attitude and soldier on spirit had all but faded.

There are many words you can attach to CANCER, one of which is expensive.

The stress of the immediate and ongoing future for Sam and her family can be limited if we together can get Sam and Family a reliable and comfortable vehicle, and a financial cushion for living expenses and the costs of fighting for life.

It's our chance to show Sam just how much she means to us all....

... because she is one in a million.