On the 23rd July, Alex Cookson, Jamie Hawthorne, Anthony Edwards, Dave Pountney & Phill Tookey who are all members of Amazing Feet Running Club will be taking part in the ContiThunderRun 24hr at Catton Park, Derbyshire to see how many laps they can complete of the 10km course in 24 hours.


They will be raising money for Birmingham Childrens Hospital after Alex has seen first hand how important, crucial and critical the care they give is.

On the 11th April 2022, At 04.34am, Evie arrived into Alex's family making the family complete.
Later that afternoon just after 2pm Evie and Jas (Mum) were discharged from Hospital and everyone was going home to see Evie's big sister, Esmae.

When we all arrived home everything was great, we were exhausted but happy to be all together, after 9 months of patience and excitement.

That night, Evie wouldn't settle at all, her knee's were tucked into her chest, she was vomiting and she seemed in pain. She wouldn't feed and we began to feel like something wasn't right.

The following morning Evie's condition deteriorated, Then, Our world stopped.
Alex was forced to begin giving Evie CPR.

Evie was not breathing.

Her eyes were wide open and watering, she was blue. Our baby girl was not breathing.

Within minutes of calling 999, Police, 2 Ambulances, A critical care Dr, and an Air Ambulance were on scene. Just as the ambulances were arriving while Alex was still giving Evie CPR she began to cry and take a breath herself.

The Paramedics took over, Evie's heart rate was 260bpm, and her o2 levels were down to 46%. She was taken to the ambulance and prepped for transport, where they had to resus her again.

Evie was rushed to Worcester Hospital and onto the Pediatric ward where she was given more life saving treatment by several nurses and Dr's and they administerd early antibiotics as a precaution for sepsis.

Birmingham Childrens Hospital sent a Childrens Critical Care Ambulance for Evie and transported her to the Intensive Care Unit at Birmingham Childrens Hospital. By the following morning, she was on a ventilatior.

Over the following 3 weeks, including multiple operations, difficult conversations where we were told to expect the worst, countless tests, and multiple episodes of lifesaving treatment she was stable enough to be transfered off the ICU and onto a High Dependency Ward.

Over the next few weeks, a few more operations, minor and major took place and after each operation we were one step closer to being able to hold our baby girl without wires, tubes, and bags.

Multiple infections were picked up during our time here, each bringing fresh challanges that Dr's and Surgeons have again had to give more life saving treatment.

She will undergo more tests as she slowly gets bigger and stronger, but that could be weeks or months away but we take each day as it comes.

We still have a very long way to go before we can go home as a timeline is not even on the agenda at the moment, but knowing we are surrounded by such professional, caring, skilled and brilliant people makes us want to thank them by raising money for the hospital for some more vital equipment and supplies that can save the life of more sick children.