Team member Nicole Russell said this will be the first year the Blooming Pringles will walk together at the Cancer Council fundraiser at Orange Showground.  

“My work colleague [Lynette Bullen] has been diagnosed with breast cancer and she’s been having treatment so we decided in the lunch room to form a team and support her,” Miss Russell said.

Ms Bullen, is team captain and said she was delighted by the support and fundraising efforts of her team, which is named after the Pringle Building at Bloomfield Campus, where they meet in the lunchroom.

“I was really overwhelmed, they’ve been with me the whole journey because I worked through all my treatment,” Ms Bullen said.

“My work colleagues have been really supportive and made it easier for me to come in [to work].

“With cancer you don’t often think it will affect you, two years ago when I did the Relay for Life I was doing it for my Dad and little did I realise that a year later I would be going through my own cancer journey and now I’m nearly through it.”

Ms Bullen will have been through 15 months of treatment when it finishes in July.

She has been open about her journey since she was diagnosed and as a result some of her female colleagues, who are aged over 40, have had mammograms.

“It’s not as bad now as it used to be, there’s treatment, you can live with cancer as a chronic illness,” Ms Bullen said.

“It’s an individual journey, I thought ‘what can I do?’ and for me it was sharing my journey.”