Diane's book. My sh*tty gap year

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My sh*tty gap year my journey through a diagnosis with AML and the days and weeks and years after transplant.

Invercargill, Southland

Hello friends and family. I'm setting up this page to help fund the editing and printing and publishing of a book I have written about my recent journey with AML

Acute myeloid leukemia. I decided to write this book as I found very little info initially to learn about what I was looking at

I'm donating all funds from sales to the Bone marrow cancer trust/ranui house

And Leukemia blood cancer nz.

The book is around 80 pages and includes some photos and also some input from my son's. It's a straight up no bars hold joe bloggs bad language at times real story!

My main reason for doing this is to help others going through the same kind of sh*t and also to give back to those charities that helped us.

Use of funds

It is to be used to edit publish and print 200 copies

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Diane's book   7 July 2025

Just an update on how well the donations from my book have been going. I've donated well over $1000.00 to each of my charities the leukemia blood cancer nz and bone marrow cancer trust nz. My book sales have been going great and at this point I only have about 60 copies left. Thankyou once again for making this all possible.

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Andrea on 10 Mar 2025
We are so proud of you, we can’t wait to have a read.
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This campaign started on 2 Mar 2025 and ended on 2 Apr 2025.