Angus
My name’s Angus Barnet I’ve been lucky enough to have known Monty since we were in Year 8 and he was just one of the indistinguishable Summers twins, by year 12 (2006) we were good friends. So it came as a huge shock when, one weekend not long before QCS, I got a text from Monty saying he had Leukemia.
Monty was and is an incredibly fit and cheerful person, and the thought that a disease like this could affect him shook the entire year 12 group. Throughout the remainder of ’06 through to ’07, when Monty was getting treatment, I saw him as much as possible, but in hindsight, not nearly enough. Monty has this ability, and he used it expertly in the time he was getting treatment, to be so positive and so cheerful that it could be easy to forget what he was going through, and were it not for the hospital environment I most certainly would have.
Later that year, when my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, Monty was overwhelmingly supportive to my mother and myself.
What Monty has been through I cannot even begin to imagine. What Monty is about to put himself through is equally as astonishing, few people, of their own volition would be willing to organize and run in a 1,197km charity event from Brisbane to Longreach, Monty is. It’s a testament to his incredibly positive and pro-active outlook, that he is willing to sacrifice his time and roughly 120km of effort, for the sake of others.
