Our Sept Swim Challenge (25 mi.) for Neuroendocrine Cancer!

By L&Z G

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Less 2 miles to swim to hit the big 25!

Wednesday 25th Sep

Approx 3 miles to Go to hit the big 25!

Tuesday 24th Sep
They are nearly there! 

WOOHOO! Passed 20 miles

Tuesday 24th Sep
Swimming like Champs! 🤩

Luke 22.82 Miles . 

Zoe: 21.14 Miles! 

Good humans, Good friends! ❤️

Saturday 21st Sep
Thanks to our beautiful friends who keep on giving- together we are fantastic! But, more importantly we love we are all doing our bit for others! ❤️❤️

20 miles and then 25 Target around the corner!

Saturday 21st Sep
Days to go. Keep on swimming….

Inching closer…every swim!

Saturday 21st Sep
Luke: 18.8 miles
Zoe: 17.12miles

🤩Cracked the 15 miles! Keep calm and swim on!

Friday 20th Sep
So far: This week, swam: 
L 5.114 Miles 
Z 3.409 miles

Luke: 17.7 miles  to date! 
Zoe: 15.478 miles to date! 

So much Gratitude! 🥰

Monday 16th Sep
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We are so lucky to have you as friends and family!

Monday 16th Sep
Hi family/friends, 

Thank you for getting behind us and supporting this dedicated cause. 

We are so grateful to all of you for all your support and feel so incredibly lucky to have you as our friends and family! THANK YOU so much!🥰😘Neuroendocrine Cancer is rare and gets little attention and funding and so we do know every little bit of this money helps.  Every dollar really does help! 

The Foundation itself,  is actually just a few Neuroendocrine Cancer Nurses that do this as an extra job because they understand how under-resourced and under supported this form of cancer is. NECA staff all work from home, they don’t have an office at all, so the funds all go directly to our NET Nursing team, resources (like explainer videos, fact sheets and booklets) and research. One nurse is dedicate to QLD: Brisbane area and also works nationally because the demand is great. Rest assured their overheads are extremely low, every cent raised goes directly to NET patient care for specialist services.  And, please note there are NO ie free tshirts or plush toys for doing this fundraiser! 

In Australia, some states don’t even have a dedicated Neuroendocrine Cancer Nurse or dedicated medical team and because this cancer is rare it is essential the cancer patients  have access to a team of specialists, Counsellors etc that fully understand the condition. 

People may recognise the title of this cancer because Steve Jobs had it. The kids Nana has this cancer and sadly, she is stage 4. They believe her primary site was the pancreas . Which is quite common. More work is being done to better understand this cancer, but a lot more research is needed.  For example, they now believe  IBS along with other conditions could be a pre-cursor! 

There is so much more to learn! We thank you and we know Neuroendocrine Cancer Australia and their patients are appreciative for your support too. I have been directly contact with the nurses and they are in site if need of resources and are very appreciative of these funds raised! 

Love the love from you all! ❤️ 

Deb, John, Luke and Zoe xxxx

Smashed our final goal thanks to you!

Monday 16th Sep
Together we did it’ Thank you for all the kindness, all the support! 😘🥰

Only $104 to go to hit our final target!

Sunday 15th Sep
We are so, so close! 

So close to cracking 15 swimming miles! Woohoo!

Saturday 14th Sep
We have been swimming extra hard and we are extra tired!  We swam over 8 miles each this week! WOW wee! That’s a lot! 

Going strong: 10 miles+ each achieved! 15 to go!

Wednesday 11th Sep
Wed 11th Sept. 

Luke: 12.469 miles  to date! 
Zoe: 12.069 miles to date! 

Original Goal 300, New goal 1400!

Wednesday 11th Sep
How incredible.  A big thank you to all our kind hearted, compassionate souls! 🥰🥰

Fantastic effort all!

Wednesday 11th Sep
Way to go! New target reached and new goal to be set! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
Caring about others feels good! 

New week, new goal!

Tuesday 10th Sep
We feel so much encouraged and so supported to have so many amazing people in our lives! Thank you! 🥰😘

New target reached already: Incredible love and support keeps coming in!

Tuesday 10th Sep
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts! 🥰 

Sunday Swim

Monday 9th Sep

To date: 

Luke 4.6 miles +1.3 miles =5.9 

Zoe 4.9 miles + 1.1 miles = 6.0 miles 


You are all PHENOMENAL!

Monday 9th Sep
What can I say- your hearts are bigger than Texas! Thank you sweet people. We just passed another fundraising target! Woohoo! That is truly amazing! So, so grateful! 🥰❤️😘

Smashing Goals! Just surpassed our latest goal and raising it again!

Sunday 8th Sep
Wow wee! We are jumping ( swimming) for joy! 

Thank you ALL for your sizzling, selfless support!  

There are good people in the world and  “you” are one of them! 😘❤️🥰🎉

Eat my bubbles…

Saturday 7th Sep

Way to go kids - Swimming strong! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

 Target 25 miles in Sept. Turns out Luke and Zoe are strong just  like their Nana!❤️ 
Luke 4.6 miles Zoe 4.9 miles 


Crazy excited! We are making incredible progress!

Saturday 7th Sep
So proud! So grateful! ⭐️🥰❤️😘

We are blown away with your incredible support and encouragement!

Saturday 7th Sep
Fundraising goal doubled yesterday and we exceeded it today thanks to you beautiful, compassionate people! ❤️❤️🥰🥰😘😘

Just increased our goal again!  WOW! So amazing! 

We are so thrilled to know there are so many good people still left in the world and we are even fortunate and privileged to know that you are “our” people! 

So incredibly grateful to have you in our lives. From us all of Thank you so much! 🥰❤️😘

Swimming distance to date:

Friday 6th Sep
We are off to a fabulous flying start! 

Luke and Zoe are working hard at it and have already swam the following distances: 
-Luke 3.136 miles ( didn’t swim today) 
-Zoe 2.5 miles

Increasing our Fundraising goal - so we can hopefully help more people who need it most!

Friday 6th Sep
We want to do and help as a may as we can!  Game on! 

We overshot our goal thanks to each and everyone of you! 😘❤️

Friday 6th Sep
We are so, so chuffed and so humbled for all of your generosity , your kindness and compassion! Thank you kind special people the bottom of our hearts! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

We have been off to an amazing start thanks to the generosity and kindness of our special people!

Friday 6th Sep
Amazing! Thank you for your support, we are nearly at our target goal already, Wow, Wow, which is just incredible! 🤩You are all superstars and just really good humans! 

We grossly underestimated our swimming goals ( there was little confusion around the numbers 😆). But, it’s ok we have adjusted it now and  have set a truly challenging stretch goal!   It will be tough with busy school and after-hour schedule conflicts but we are going to try our hardest to reach it! 

Mum and Dad will double our family donation if we hit it!    So, for now we are just going to “Keep on swimming”. 
Here is a summary of our swimming distances to date: 
Luke has already swam 3.136 miles and Zoe has swam 1.5 miles! 

We will keep you updated along the way! 
Thank you again! 😘

We are swimming 5 miles in Sept. for Neuroendocrine Cancer! 🥰

Wednesday 4th Sep
Today we start our “5 Mile Sept. Swim. Challenge” we set for ourselves in support of  Neuroendocrine Cancer! 

We will hit the pool this evening and we can’t wait to start counting our laps! 

Distance swam in Sept to date: 0 laps/0 miles. 

Together we will try to bring hope to those that need it most! 

Please support us if you can! 

Thank you so much! 🥰

Luke and Zoe 

Thank you to my Sponsors

$105.50

Haines Family 🙌

You guys are awesome!!!! Good luck x

$105.50

Jim, Michelle, Olivia & Sam

Great effort Luke and Zoe. Hope you are both well, we all talk about you both lots. Good luck with the swimming

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Anonymous

Go Luke and Zozo

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Jennifer K

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Brian Ramos

$55.92

Jennifer Ramos

Keep being awesome !

$53.75

Deb Giedris

Love you both so much and couldn’t be prouder love Mum 😘

$52.75

John Giedris

$52.75

Brett And Jo

Hey swimming superstars! What a great challenge for a good cause. Miss you. Happy swimming xx

$52.75

Deanne Cowland

Great job Luke and Zoe. Happy swimming!

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Kim

Live you guys! This is so great of y’all to do x

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Wilkins Family

GO Luke and Zozo. We are super proud of you both x Love Hannah and Lil Jon x

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Lisa Enright

Thank you for raising awareness and making a difference to cancer sufferers. Your Nana would be proud!

$51

Ali Lullfitz

Go Luke and Zoe! You are both stars xoxo

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Teresa Busardo

$50

Kevin & Brooke Mattimore

Great work Luke & Zoe!

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Kathy And Bob Hanley

So proud of you! Keep swimming- you've got this!!! Much love, Aunt Kathy and Uncle Bob

$41

Amanda Dixon

Supper proud off you Luke and Zoe

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Corinne Lethlean

$26.38

Aunty Lyn & Uncle Gavin Hogan

You go Luke & Zoe. So proud of you and for raising money for NETS which has impacted your Nanna and family so much. You're both amazing and we are so proud of you. 👏🌟👏🌟👏🌟👏

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S4

Go Zoe and Luke! Great initiative ⭐️

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Kat Hodson

Go Luke & Zoe!!x

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Kena Henderson

$25

Jo Chapman

Well done Luke and Zoe! Amazing achievement X X

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Tess Walker

Well done!

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Lois Petrich

Well done Luke & Zoe my beautiful grandchildren. I am so honoured you are doing this to support people like me with Neuroendocrine tumour/cancer. You make me very proud 👵😍🦘🥰🙏💐💗

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Kristy Swinbourn

You guys rock!! Best of luck x

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A J

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Louise Wilson

Good luck L&Z! We are proud of you!