Hi, I’m George. I’m raising money for the children’s hospital charity (Sheffield Children’s Hospital). I will be hoping to raise money by abseiling off an old train bridge in Derbyshire. The reason I’m doing this is because I spent most my days of 2021 in hospital as I was diagnosed with a rare form of leukaemia. At first it looked good as I was told I had “ALL” (Acute Lymphoblastic leukaemia), this form of leukaemia should take 3 years of treatment to cure without any interferences, therefore though it was demoralising there was a lot of hope of surviving as it wasn’t such a harsh form. As time went on it was quickly realised my diagnosis wasn’t as clear as the doctors thought… The chemotherapy they had been treating me with evidently wasn’t working due to the power of the leukaemia, even with the strongest dose. Finding out that I had a rare form called T(17:19), the doctors quickly reacted and put me forward for a treatment called the blinatumomab (antibodies pump), this targets the “ALL” leukaemia. This was the first phase of a plan my doctors had sorted out by putting me forward to the board of national doctors, the second phase was a bone marrow transplant. The aim was for the blinatumomab to get my cancer levels as low as possible for the bone marrow transplant. The first month of this drug went all well and reduced my cancer cells greatly, everything was looking good. As the second month started the doctors soon realised from tests that the cancer had started to overpower the strong antibodies, my hope had decreased massively. The plan that had been forged together soon collapsed having seen how strong the cancer was. Soon enough the doctors quickly responded having seen how strong I was and hatched a new plan together. The bone marrow transplant was still on the books but just postponed till December. First of all a life threatening treatment called Car-T cell therapy would need to be completed, the post trauma of this treatment could cause organ damage and brain damage hence the reason it’s life threatening. It was a long gruelling month in GOSH (Great Ormand Street Hospital) but eventually I came out of the other side and all had gone well with no side effects. Now I was told I would have the bone marrow in a months time, bare in mind the Car-T cell therapy had caused me to lose a lot of strength in my legs, therefore I couldn’t walk. I had to gain a lot of strength to get back up and walking before my bone marrow transplant… luckily I managed to get walking with a week or 2 before the next phase. In December I had started the bone marrow transplant journey, at first there was 3 days of radiotherapy to get rid of my cells completely, then 2 days of antibodies to help prevent any cells from coming back, then a day or two of rest before the big day of the transplant. There were ups and downs again in Sheffield children’s hospital as I lost all my hair again due to new cells and strength had decreased once again. But 4 weeks after the transplant all had gone perfect and I was out of hospital hopefully cured. This news eventually came true for certain as all my tests had shown no cancer, so therefore I want to thank all of the hospitals that had helped me on this journey, but especially Sheffield children’s as there ward may have had a makeover while I was there but they’re not very fortunate with donations so I’d like to dedicate whatever I raise to them. Thanks.