Woonona woman ticks off bucket list goal

Feb. 23, 2015, 9:30 p.m.

Woonona's Karen Davies used an MS Australia Go for Gold scholarship to check one item off her bucket list.

Supporter: Karen Davies will be poolside at next month's University of Wollongong Mega Swim. Picture: ANDY ZAKELI

Woonona's Karen Davies used an MS Australia Go for Gold scholarship to check one item off her bucket list.

The scholarship - funded through the 24-Hour Mega Swim events - helped the former high school teacher make it to Canada in 2013 to participate in the centenary celebrations of the school she taught at in 1991.

Next month the 59-year-old will be poolside at the University of Wollongong Mega Swim event to support participants as they raise funds for scholarships for others living with multiple sclerosis.

"These scholarships allow people with MS to do something that they wouldn't be able to do otherwise," Ms Davies said.

"I came to my disability later in life but many younger people diagnosed with MS have had to quit university in order to work out how to live with the disease, they've had to put off their studies and their dreams.

"These scholarships have supported such people to get back to their education, and have also helped in many other areas like travel, employment, sport, music and the arts."

She resigned from teaching in 1998 after being told she had a brain tumour. When MS symptoms came after treatment for that, she thought she had another tumour.

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Woonona woman ticks off bucket list goal