About Us

The Tuesday O’Hara Fund was set up in memory of our daughter Tuesday who was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia in June 2003, at the age of eighteen years old, after long stays in hospital and numerous amounts of chemotherapy on the 24th January 2007 Tuesday lost her 4 year battle. Tuesday's friends and family decided to continue her fight by raising money to help others who suffer this illness.

Tuesday loved to spend time with family and friends going on outings, shopping trips, boy could she shop! & trips to the theatre were a distraction from her illness we have some fantastic memories of these special times with her. Tuesday just wanted to be treated normally she had the great knack of making people laugh & was always smiling. This is one of the things that we will miss most.

Our aim is to raise funds which will enable cancer sufferers under financial hardship and their families and friends, in any way we can. Our ultimate aim is to raise enough money to facilitate the Pevensey Ward/ Proposed adolescent unit located in Eastbourne District General Hospital with equipment that will make young persons aged between eighteen and thirty years stay, as comfortable and homely as possible.

During the early stages of Tuesday’s illness, she wrote the poem below. I think you will agree that it sums up how she felt, but despite it all she still managed to keep us laughing.

Sick To Death By Tuesday O’Hara

You never really know if people understand
All they offer is a friendly hand
Do they actually want to listen to what you’ve got to say?
You don’t actually know but tell them anyway.
Being ill is such a lonely place you have death staring you in the face.
Your so scared of dying that you find yourself just sitting crying.
Sometimes the pain hurts so much you cant even bare to be touched,
You just want to be left alone, but then again you don’t.
All you have left to do is hold your head high & have a smile on your face.
Carry on walking with through life pace by pace….

25/04/2003