Lyn joined our group in January 2003, and stayed a member of the group until her death in 2010.

Lyn wrote her own funeral eulogy, which her family have generously shared with us, and this is what she said about the group:

“I was given the details of a group for women with advanced breast cancer. I felt I was just dying and would get a group that would help me with funeral arrangements but No. They shared with me their overseas trips, their chemo, their ups and downs. It gave me immense strength. It gave me this wonderful calm that my sisters had shared. We’d ring in every week, we called ourselves ‘kickarse women’. We travelled the world, changed laws and wrote books. I thank god for my group, they have made me strong during the fight and calm at the end. So many of us will find ourselves faced with cancer during our lives and I cannot stress enough the importance of support and talking to people who are facing the exact same battle as you are. Much love and more power to the wonderful ‘kickarse women’ ”.

Lyn was a gifted writer, and we will be putting more of her work on the site in the near future.