My husband Dom and I are part of a team that has joined together to collectively swim 22 miles (we are each swimming 1 mile) to raise money for Ryan. Given that the most activity either of us have done in a swimming pool over the last 5 years is wade around trying to help our two young children to learn to swim, this will be quite a challenge for us! Our swim will take place on Sunday the 12th of August 2012.

 

Each swimmer has their own personal goal but our target is for the team to collectively swim 22miles between Dover and Calais from the safety of our local swimming pool! Our youngest swimmer will have just turned 7 and will be swimming 1 mile.

Ryan has been fighting neuroblastoma, an aggressive childhood cancer, since he was 2 years old. He has beaten the disease twice but sadly the disease has again returned. Ryan’s immediate treatment will be life saving radiotherapy and chemotherapy to try and shrink the new tumour on his spine.

There are no relapse treatment protocols in the UK, Ryan’s best chance of beating neuroblastoma is to travel abroad for treatment. His mum and dad aim to take Ryan to Germany for a ‘Haploidentical Stem Cell transplant’. A recent conference held in Tubingen has shown very promising results for this treatment.

This transplant will not be funded by the NHS which is why Ryan needs your help. The treatment is likely to cost in excess of £300,000. Please give as much as you can afford to help save Ryan and other children like him. Every donation, no matter how small, helps

So please dig deep and donate now