Our Endometriosis Interview with The Digestion Detective

On the 26th of March Kassi and I had a lovely chat with Sam from The Digestion Detective all about Endometriosis and our fundraising efforts, specifically #ShaveForEndo. We covered what endometriosis is, some top tips for getting help from your doctor and the basics to starting the endo diet. We also explained what fundraising we've done so far, plans for the future and why we think Endometriosis UK is such a great charity! You can listen to the full interview here:

Moments after Kassi saw her new 'do' for the first time!

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Last Monday my sister Kassi did an incredibly brave thing: she shaved off all her hair to raise money for Endometriosis UK and awareness for the disease. It was part of a larger goal to raise £1000 for Endometriosis UK this year and she's already made a lot of headway into that goal. She set her target for this event at £100, but reached that well before the event itself and the total currently sits at £284 with a few more donations yet to be received.

The event itself was at a local hotel and around 20 people attended. I started the evening by giving a short talk about what endo is, why we're raising money and also a little about the charity before we got on with the shaving. Being the "guest of honour" as it were, I was the lucky person that got to cut her plait off (which she is donating to a company that makes wigs for chemo patients - double good karma!) and it was a fun task. As a side note, plaits are hard to cut through and take ages!

Once the plait was off we charged £1 for the guests who wanted to cut off a lovely lock - it was a surprisingly popular activity! Then the lovely Kate Kingston set about the tricky task of shaving off the patches of hair that were left and evening Kassi out while everyone else purchased raffle tickets.

There were a few tears when Kassi first saw her newly-shaved head, but since she'd just spent 30 hours travelling back from a wedding in New Zealand I think we can put that down to emotional tiredness! There was also a lot of time spent parading around with the plait and letting people feel her fuzzy head. It sounds very odd, but it was highly entertaining at the time!

The night ended with the raffle, where everyone sat with their fingers crossed hoping to win a bottle of wine or port! I even won a gift voucher to go and see Kate when it's time for my next trim. :)

Overall we raised £64 on the night between the raffle, the hair cutting and generous donations and people have continued to donate over the last week. We're getting so close to £300 now and it'd be great if we could break that milestone! We've even been invited to do a few interviews to continue raising awareness and talk about why it's so important to us. It's really exciting to have the opportunity to reach more people and raise awareness about endo.

If you'd like to donate you can visit our JustGiving page - we really appreciate anything you can spare!

Now I'm off to remind Kassi that she resembles a potato...

Before & After