The donations keep on coming for Chris Brugger and the My Name is Chris foundation.
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This time from the Griffith Hockey Association (GHA).
The GHA held their annual charity round recently where they raised $550 for the My Name is Chris foundation.
Chris Brugger said his situation is slowly progressing.
“It's been going pretty good,” he said.
“I had a scan about a month ago that showed what they're calling remission, but there's still some little bits lit up in my lungs, but they think that's scar tissue and damage, so much better.
“Then I had an donor lymphocyte infusion at the same time.
“So I'm a bit sore at the moment, my skins a bit dry, joint and muscle pain.”
Over $60,000 has been donated to the foundation so far.
Mr Brugger said it showed the kind of place Griffith is.
“It's unreal, the Griffith community is just incredible, they've got behind us from day one,” he said.
“It's a big town, but it's a small town when it comes to things like this.
“I've lived here my whole life and people get behind local causes.
“I just want to say a big thanks to all the support we've been getting and I wouldn't be here otherwise.”
President of the GHA Chris Sutton said it was a very worthy cause.
“I saw the thing with Chris and nominated him as the charity,” he said.
“I just thought it would be good to help out someone in the local community that does need assistance.
“I just think he's a guy that needs some help to stay on his feet so I pushed forward that we donate some money.”
Despite being a small organisation, the day yielded some big results.
“We only have ten teams in the competition and we've done it for different charities over the years like the Glenn McGrath one,” he said.
“We try and do different charities every year and it's our way of giving back to the community.
“What we do is every year we run a charity round and this year we had two charities that we decided to donate to.
“The other was the neonatal that's out of town because the child of one of the guys that previously played in the comp had to be transported across.”
He said it only took a few little initiatives to raise to raise the $550.
“We ran a raffle on the day, which is quite successful,” he said.
“The canteen that we run put sausages on for the day and all money raised from the sausage sizzle goes to the charity.
“Also every player puts in a gold coin donation.
“Every year we raise around the $600 mark.”