My sister is awesome; give her cash.

[Nikose Tyris]

So, my little sister cuts her hair for cancer. She's been doing it since she was 10. We grew up in a family that volunteered it's time and money and effort to whatever organization we could; I suppose it's natural that a child raised in that enviroment would want to follow suit as quickly as possible?

Originally Posted by Hope

My name is Hope Robins. I am almost 13 years old. This will be the third time I have cut my hair for Cancer. I also make sure that the hair is donated to make wigs for kids who have lost their hair because they have cancer. I cut my hair the first time when I was 8 and I raised $1,100.00 in pledges, the second time I raised $2,700.00 and this year my goal is $5000.00. I would be honoured if you would help me. This year I am proudly supporting The Terry Fox Foundation in its ongoing work to fund innovative and progressive cancer research programs. I very much hope you will consider making a donation in support of my effort, confident in the knowledge that your kindness will impact the lives of so many people living with cancer.

My mom helped her write that. I think she should have done it herself, but people don't listen to ME.


Anyway I have this link here- http://my.e2rm.com/personalPage.aspx...ationID=920291 - That takes to her Terry Fox page. Take a look; Let me know if what she's doin' interests you, feel free to speak your mind on the kids efforts, hell, if you have spare change, feel free.

Previously, she'd intended to go for 10K, but decided her hair wasn't long enough to be worth collecting donations for yet; she's now down to about mid-back, and thinks it's time.

So yeah, there's a youtube video from way-back that i had posted here, but it's probably -long- gone. So, here's the news clip on my youtube account:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HlTR5jwTe8

and here's just a random clip of her singing at her school (She's been taking singing lessons for about a year, and she's remarkably confident, even in the face of a rather messy accident in the middle of her song):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUGNr4xsu_0

Edit: Oh shit I need a closer of some type for the thread, uh, crud.

TELL ME YOUR THOUGHTS.

yeah that'll work.

Edit: Tagged it as 'serious' cause I'd kind of like it if people didn't step in and be all like "Cancer lol", cause, not cool. (why don't we have an 'awesome' tag?)

[Fenris]

Originally Posted by Nikose Tyris

(why don't we have an 'awesome' tag?)

Because people would use it incorrectly because they are special snowflakes and of course their thread is awesome but in fact it is quite lame.

This thread, though? Totally awesome.

[Premmy]

Get to work on that Slater tag, then..

For seriouses though, totally awesome.

Your family sounds pretty kick-ass..... where did YOU come from?

edit:
Ya'll need to give that girl tons of ice-cream and pizza and shit.

[Fenris]

Originally Posted by Premmy

Get to work on that Slater tag, then..

Because people would use it incorrectly because they are special snowflakes and of course their thread is awesome but in fact it is quite lame.

.

[Nikose Tyris]

Originally Posted by Premmy

Your family sounds pretty kick-ass..... where did YOU come from?
Ya'll need to give that girl tons of ice-cream and pizza and shit.

I actually spent my time volunteering at Greenhaven Women's shelter with my mom until I was about 14-15, when they wouldn't let me anymore. ((Grown men and 'large teenagers' are asked to avoid the place, as it's a shelter to battered and abused women.))

And whenever my sister and I get together she gets spoild ROTTEN. She's being raised on one of those stupid Gluten-free diets and she hates it, so we go out for pizza and burgers and stuff whenever we can. :3 Actually, that's why I'm broke this month, she came up to visit and we went to the Royal Ontario Museum and afterwards ate so much we puked.

Originally Posted by Lev

Stuff!

I'm gonna throw you temporarily onto my ignore list, since my sister is going to be reading this thread tonight after horse riding camp. I don't need her googlin' those topics when she's only turnin' 13 this month.

Originally Posted by Premmys

How do I get in on this?

Originally Posted by Synk

Explains how to get in on this

Hope usually grows her hair down to her below her shoulder blades at least, before getting this done. Perm'd hair, I don't know if there's a great demand for, for wigs- but collecting donations just to get your head shaved bald is something quite a few people do. Hope's before and after pictures are floating around somewhere, I'll see if I can't find them and post them up- she starts with mid-back to upper-back length hair, and ends with hair up around mid-ear.

Originally Posted by Fenris

Awesome

In here I rant about how awesome she is, feel free to TL;DRThis is a kid that grew up for the first steps of her life with a not-there father and a single mom with disabilities, and was adopted into our family while we had an abusive stepfather. She spends her spare time grooming and studying horses, attends riding camp in the summer months, takes singing lessons and has a heavy interest in martial arts, while still finding time to donate to causes, hang out with her friends and commit horrible pranks on my mother.

I'm -INCREDIBLY- proud of her, if you couldn't tell. She works her ass off to keep her grades up despite her learning disabilties and has classes on weekends to help her stay with the class, plays a level 6 Ninja in my D&D campaign, and refuses to accept any kind of forced rule over her. When my sister babysits, she usually just puts Hope in her bedroom and forbids her to leave. Hope had a playdate arranged with another girl that Older sister was just going to make her skip; so, to keep the date, she jumped out her window.

This window is 10 feet off the ground.

Nobody knew she was gone until my mother got a call at 10 at night, asking when they were going to come pick up Hope.

Unsurprisingly, Hope recieved only a tiny bit of punishment and Older Sister no longer babysits.

Basically what I'm saying is I love my sister a lot. She's awesome.

[CelesJessa]

I think what your sister is doing is completely fantastic. As someone who's had several people close to me suffer from cancer, I know firsthand how meaningful things like Locks of Love and such are (Locks of Love are what my friends and I donate to)

My older brother went through chemotherapy during high school and he did get self conscious about being bald because it was pretty much like "HEY THAT KID HAS CANCER" And this is a pretty self-confident guy. While he didn't opt to get a wig or anything, my cousin suffered from cancer for a long time and it was amazing how much healthier she looked with her wig. And considering this wasn't just "Oh it's just a few months of being bald until you get better", having something like that so she could still live a normal life as long as she physically could was really meaningful.

So, for your sister when she reads this thread like you said she would: you rock!

[Hanuman]

That's pretty noble TBH! Personally I've always been more on the side of the burn wards need for hair. What would you want if it were you? Nice hair to cover up the fact you temporarily lost it due to cancer treatments, or nice hair to cover up you have disfiguring scars and now splotchy natural hair?

[POS Industries]

Originally Posted by Lev

What would you want if it were you? Nice hair to cover up the fact you temporarily lost it due to cancer treatments, or nice hair to cover up you have disfiguring scars and now splotchy natural hair?

Either?

I mean, I really don't see that question as anything that doesn't act as a lead in to the internet debate nobody wants to have so yeah, how about we don't go there?

[Hanuman]

Originally Posted by POS Industries

Either?

I mean, I really don't see that question as anything that doesn't act as a lead in to the internet debate nobody wants to have so yeah, how about we don't go there?

If you don't want to address a point I made then treat it as rhetoric, if you don't want to do that then ignore it.
If no one wants to have a debate around a subject then no debate will be had.

On a related note, my friends are brushing their cat and are going to make yarn from the sheddings to make the cat some clothes or something.

[Fenris]

Originally Posted by Lev

If you don't want to address a point I made then treat it as rhetoric, if you don't want to do that then ignore it.

I'm p. sure that was him telling everybody else to ignore what you said.