Having recently returned home to the UK, I am finally getting to live out a dream of competing in my hometown marathon, a race that I have watched from my Grandparent’s garden as a small boy in the New Forest.

In addition to trying to become a local legend, I am raising funds for The Brompton Fountain who recently supported a local friend’s son Huey during a long stay in hospital. 

Huey was born last November with a life-threatening heart condition called Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. He was born at Chelsea & Westminster, but immediately swept off to The Royal Brompton, a specialist heart and lung hospital in central London. 

Here he was put under the care of their world class team, as he underwent two critical open heart surgeries as part of a six month stay. Both surgeries were a resounding success and he is now at home. He will require a third surgery before he turns four. 

Huey's survival has depended on the leading expertise, technology and care at the hospital. All of which is supported by The Brompton Fountain, who works closely with the paediatric teams and provides a wide range of vital resources and services, as well as funding medical equipment and improvements to the hospital facilities.

Raising funds for The Brompton Fountain charity will ensure their support of children with serious cardiac and respiratory illnesses can continue and grow into the future, so more babies like Huey are given their shot at life. 

Having waited so long for this moment I will be leaving everything on the finish line. For little Huey and Granny Bridget watching from the sidelines.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Chris