If you’re Dry July, you can stage a swift makeover, offering up a Dry(ish) July option of 14 or 21 days for those daunted by the prospect of an entire month sober during turbulent times
How do you encourage tens of thousands of people to ditch the booze amid a global pandemic that has sent alcohol sales skyrocketing?option of 14 or 21 days for those daunted by the prospect of an entire month sober during turbulent times.
“I have not been able to go to any of her treatments because of the COVID-19 restrictions, but Dad cannot speak more highly of the staff,” she says. But it's not just the end of the 21 days he'll be celebrating. This month marks 12 months since he was diagnosed with HPV throat cancer."On the morning of July 3 last year, I went in for a specialist appointment after discovering a lump on my beard line. By midday, the results were back," says Gluyus.
Now, in recovery, Gluyus is raising funds to help vulnerable cancer patients get free transport to treatment at Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital. "I feel very fortunate to have a supportive partner and family and always thought of the people doing it on their own."As Dry July participants try to resist the bottle, other organisations have ramped up their efforts to help those seeking support after a booze-soaked few months.
Hayley selected the two-week option so she could finish on the last day of her mother's cancer treatment .
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