La vie décousue

Heart dis­ease is the lead­ing cause of death in Aus­tralia. It

• kills one Aus­tralian nearly every 10 minutes
• affects more than 3.7 mil­lion Australians
• pre­vents 1.4 mil­lion people from liv­ing a full life because of dis­ab­il­ity caused by the disease
• affects one in five Aus­trali­ans, and affects two out of three families
• claimed the lives of almost 46,000 Aus­trali­ans (34% of all deaths) in 2006 — deaths that are largely preventable.

The Heart Found­a­tion saves lives and improves health through fund­ing world-class car­di­ovas­cu­lar research, guidelines for health pro­fes­sion­als, inform­ing the pub­lic and assist­ing people with car­di­ovas­cu­lar disease.

On 25th Octo­ber 2009, I will be tak­ing part in the 7 Bridges Walk, a 25km walk around Sydney Har­bour.  I will be using this as an oppor­tun­ity to raise money for the Heart Found­a­tion. You can donate at http://www.everydayhero.com.au/joy_chan . Please ser­i­ously con­sider sup­port­ing me in this; I don’t know if I’ll have the forti­tude to fin­ish the whole course if I don’t raise any money! You can see a run­ning total of dona­tions on the left