I'm taking on the Aspire Channel Swim 2018, swimming the distance of the Channel over 12 weeks to raise money for Aspire. Every eight hours someone is paralysed by a Spinal Cord Injury and Aspire provides the essential equipment, advice, housing and grants that spinal cord injured people need to live their lives independently. Having worked at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, I have seen first hand the care that is needed to offer spinal injury patients a chance of an independent life.