SOMETIMES it's the little things that can make you feel a whole lot better.
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A community fabric cutting day was held recently as part of the project, A Simple Gift of a Bag, which is aimed at helping make the lives of breast cancer patients easier.
Members of the group create and design after breast cancer surgery bags which are pouches that hold the fluid bag from a drain that is attached to patients after a mastectomy and lymph node removal.
Albion Park's Lauri Fettell is a breast cancer survivor and was one of the founding members of the group. She said the bags really helped to provide some ease during a difficult time.
"A patient has one of the drains with them from a week to around one to two months," she said.
"You have just had major surgery and then on top of that you have this drain attached to your body all the time, that isn't that nice. There isn't anything holding the bag and often you have to put it on the floor when in the bathroom.
"It's just a horrible thing to go through and these bags just make it a little less traumatic."
Ms Fettell said the bags have been donated to 40 hospitals nationwide.
The fabric cutting and sewing day at the Albion Park Uniting Church was a chance for the group members to get together and create some small masterpieces.
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