A Paddle for Noah
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It is Zeb Armstrong here. You might know me as ‘the bloke who works for Gai Waterhouse’ or even as ‘Mr A Turf Fascination.’ Most likely you don’t know me at all. But it is important you all listen to me right now…
My little cousin Noah Dowie is sick and it is fucked. He has a disease that is not even worth explaining because it is so rare and you will have never heard of it and won’t ever hear of it again.
Ok, just for the sake of it, the disease is called Diamond Blackfan Anemia and the odds of contracting at are about 6 in a million. So of every one million babies born worldwide, only 6 contract Diamond Blackfan. Divide a million by 6 and you get odds of 166,667 to 1. Let’s put this in perspective…
If you had a $1 multi bet last year and managed to find with one pick, the Caulfield Cup winner Mongolian Khan, the Cox Plate winner Winx and the Melbourne Cup winner Prince of Penzance (who paid 100-1 on his own!) you would receive $2000. That triple multi, despite being almost impossible to pick with just one go, only came out at odds of 2000-1. The odds of getting this disease are almost 100 times less likely than that! So if you had one go at picking the Caulfield Cup / Cox Plate / Melbourne Cup treble ever year and got it right 100 years in a row, then we are starting to get into the realms of the probability of contracting Diamond Blackfan Anemia.
But are we going to sit here and do math all day or are we going to do something about it! A lot of people to raise money walk up mountains, but I couldn’t walk up a hill. Some people ride a bike across the Nullarbor, but I ditched the push bike the day I got my driver’s licence. What I can do is paddle a surfboard.
In September (one week waiting period, conditions pending) I am going to paddle a surfboard from the Passage in Port Fairy, around the back of the South Beach, to Oigals and back again and on the way catch one wave at every surf spot. It is not that far really, but the swell is always big, there are rocks, there are rips, and there are all kinds of sea creatures. But it is not even a fraction of a percent as big a challenge as young Noah faces. People are more than welcome to come and join me on the paddle, but I strongly recommend you are a surfer or good swimmer. We don’t need our funds going towards a helicopter rescue of a paddle participant!
Any money we raise will go to Noah’s parents Kristy and Jet. While the treatment for such an illness is largely government funded, the back and forward trips to hospital, the hotels, and the hardship on the parents is not. This little fella will need treatment forever and anything we can do will make it easier.
Dig deep people please. Let’s find $20,000!
My little cousin Noah Dowie is sick and it is fucked. He has a disease that is not even worth explaining because it is so rare and you will have never heard of it and won’t ever hear of it again.
Ok, just for the sake of it, the disease is called Diamond Blackfan Anemia and the odds of contracting at are about 6 in a million. So of every one million babies born worldwide, only 6 contract Diamond Blackfan. Divide a million by 6 and you get odds of 166,667 to 1. Let’s put this in perspective…
If you had a $1 multi bet last year and managed to find with one pick, the Caulfield Cup winner Mongolian Khan, the Cox Plate winner Winx and the Melbourne Cup winner Prince of Penzance (who paid 100-1 on his own!) you would receive $2000. That triple multi, despite being almost impossible to pick with just one go, only came out at odds of 2000-1. The odds of getting this disease are almost 100 times less likely than that! So if you had one go at picking the Caulfield Cup / Cox Plate / Melbourne Cup treble ever year and got it right 100 years in a row, then we are starting to get into the realms of the probability of contracting Diamond Blackfan Anemia.
But are we going to sit here and do math all day or are we going to do something about it! A lot of people to raise money walk up mountains, but I couldn’t walk up a hill. Some people ride a bike across the Nullarbor, but I ditched the push bike the day I got my driver’s licence. What I can do is paddle a surfboard.
In September (one week waiting period, conditions pending) I am going to paddle a surfboard from the Passage in Port Fairy, around the back of the South Beach, to Oigals and back again and on the way catch one wave at every surf spot. It is not that far really, but the swell is always big, there are rocks, there are rips, and there are all kinds of sea creatures. But it is not even a fraction of a percent as big a challenge as young Noah faces. People are more than welcome to come and join me on the paddle, but I strongly recommend you are a surfer or good swimmer. We don’t need our funds going towards a helicopter rescue of a paddle participant!
Any money we raise will go to Noah’s parents Kristy and Jet. While the treatment for such an illness is largely government funded, the back and forward trips to hospital, the hotels, and the hardship on the parents is not. This little fella will need treatment forever and anything we can do will make it easier.
Dig deep people please. Let’s find $20,000!
Organizer
Amy Armstrong
Organizer
Port Fairy VIC
