Thank you so much to everyone that donated....... you are all wonderful shining stars and your help will do loads for Myeloma research xxxx

Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.

I am jumping off a big bridge in Scotland (gulp) to raise funds for Myeloma UK! So, if you want to make me jump, you'll have to give!

In February 2010 I was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow and blood which at present is incurable. My wife and I found the news a little devastating to say the least, but through information from the wonderful staff at New Cross Hospital Wolverhampton we discovered Myeloma UK.

Myeloma is quite a rare cancer, affecting about 4000 people a year in the UK. It is treatable but not curable at present. Life expectancy is improving and longer periods of remission are being obtained through new treatments discovered through research and Myeloma UK is the ONLY charity in the UK specifically dealing with Myeloma.

Myeloma UK  gives vital information and help to people like me who are diagnosed with this awful terminal cancer. They have a website, a phone line with nurses and other experts, they have people working tirelessly with doctors and consultants and the likes of NICE the government drugs control agency. They organise Info Days throughout the year to meet with patients and carers face to face. All of this costs big money which they have to fight to raise.

Why, when I am being told by my consultant to organise a tea morning or a disco or even a whist drive because of my precarious health situation, do I wish to abseil off the Forth Rail Bridge in Edinburgh? Well to put it simply, I wanted to do something a bit more profound and maybe dangerous (gulp), to PROVE how MUCH I am DESPERATE to raise funds for Myeloma UK as a thank you for the MASSIVE help and support they have given both myself and Lorna since that dark day in Feb 2010. You see, the people at Myeloma UK  are not just ordinary people, they do everything at a personal level, always available to talk to, always willing to help and they are putting a massive effort into fundraising to help with research and to keep up all the help they give.

If you can spare a few hard earned sponduliks, it will go straight to Myeloma UK...... and will also mean I cannot back out of the abseil..... (double gulp).

Love

Mike.