Hi Everyone. You have ended up here because you know me, James Finlayson, perhaps you've worked with me, or have somehow passed through my life. Maybe you are from the Gliding Community, or Wintec where I spent 10 years as an Academic. Or maybe you are a family friend helping out the Finlayson and Hou families. Or perhaps you are a friend of Zirka Circus, the business owned by my lovely partner Jeni, and managed jointly by me and her. So, I just want to say, please don't be daunted by the very large amount of money we are trying to raise. Every little bit helps, and we are hoping that we know enough people for it to all add up. $10 or $10,000 is all relevant. We know we can borrow the balance left after fundraising. However, I am very reluctant to go into this with a financial burden on my family, especially as we have already pretty much cleaned out all the coffers so there's nothing much to fall back on. On that note, I feel I should add that while Ipilimumab is a major breakthrough in Melanoma treatment, and if successful has the potential to give me 10 years plus, the stats say it is effective in 50% of patients, not everyone. So what we have here is a game of roulette, where we put $210,000 on Red, and spin the wheel... We have never considered not paying, from my point of view, these are great odds! There are other new drugs on the way, and we are sure that a 10 year window will be all I need to survive and raise raise our 2 little boys, Orson and Otis to be wonderful young men, just like their big brother Galileo. Galileo is now 18, has done so well at school, and has his first job while working out what to study at Uni. Anyway, that's the story in a nutshell. If you want to know more, get in touch, I'm happy to have a chat about it. Thanks again James, Jeni, Galileo, Orson, and Otis
