At the beginning of 2012 my nan was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, sadly in August 2012 she lost her life to the disease. This was hard on the whole family, but this also brought the family a lot closer. However December 5 2013 my dad was diagnosed with the disease aswell. He ended up getting jaundice, blood clots and then on top of that a bleed. He didn't even have a chance to have chemo. He was admitted to hospital for 2 weeks at the end of January 2014 where they tried to fix the jaundice and the bleed but then they reached the point where they said they couldn't do anything else for him, so he said he wanted to spend however long he had left at home with his family. When he came home he must have relaxed so much that all he did was sleep all the time, and only woke up when we had to give him his pills. Sadly 3 weeks after being home he got rushed to hospital early hours of the morning with complications and sadly died 5 hours after getting there. He only survived 11 weeks from diagnosis, being only 54 and at the fittest he had ever been we are all so shocked in how quickly it really happened.

 

Pancreatic cancer is a silent killer, you don't have any symptoms till it is too late to do anything. On the 25th October - 2nd November 2014 my family and I are going to be walking the Great Wall for this great cause. We are doing this challenge to raise awareness for the charity and try our best to raise as much money as we can for the Pancreatic Cancer UK.

We are trying to get as many sponsors as we can, and spread the word about this charity to try and make people aware of Pancreatic Cancer and how fast the cancer can spread and cause so many complications.

Please take some time and look at Missy's page whi will be doing the trek with me.

www.justgiving.com/missy-wishart

 

Thank you