Vera na Ranong was a patient at St Vincent’s Hospital and knows all too well about the importance of home comforts during treatment. After successfully completing her treatment, Vera was determined to raise funds for the St Vincent’s Cancer Centre and signed up to Dry July. “The experience of cancer is different for everyone, but for me, your support network helps you get through and provides reason to get better. The funding from Dry July helped provide the little things that are not directly required to ‘get better’ from cancer, but made a world of difference to mental health and stress levels.”