Blog 362 — Sing, Sing, Sing The Extraordinary Lift Cancer Choir Written 10 October 2026 Nearly three years ago, at 3.30 pm on Sunday 29 October 2023, I attended a concert by the Lift Cancer Choir. I was a special guest of Ms Lauren Whiting, Founder and Chief Executive of Lift Cancer Care Services. Lift ( https://www.liftcancercare.com.au ) is an accredited day hospital. In its own words: [Lift] delivers evidence-based, medically prescribed Exercise Treatment to support improved outcomes for people with cancer. This specialised, oncology-specific care is tailored to each patient and designed to enhance treatment tolerance, physical function, and quality of life. When I attended that concert, Margaret had been dead a mere ten weeks and five days. Even though the singing was wonderful, I wept softly through most of the songs as waves of sadness kept sweeping over me. When I went to that concert, I had no way of knowing that I too would one ...
