As week 4 starts in my Ultra White Collar Boxing training thought I’d tell you all a little bit about my self and why this is such a difficult thing for me to do physically and mentally. I was Diagnosed with type one diabetes at 8 years old which I struggled with all the way through to my late teens in and out of hospital and just couldn’t get a grip of controlling my blood sugar levels, finally got a bit better into my early 20,s playing rugby and breaking into the first team aged 27 ( big thing for me been pretty shit at all sports) then in summer 2006 not long been 28 whilst working at height a machine I was working on had a fault causing the gate to open and I fell 7 meters landing on a steel cage causing a lot of injury’s, broke both arms, broken wrist, broken ribs, lacerated liver, ruptured spleen, collapsed lung, torn aorta and internal bleeding all resulting in major open chest surgery and plates fitting to both arms.
Woke up 4 weeks later in intensive care weighing 5 stone less than when I went in couldn’t speak, couldn’t walk couldn’t talk, spent a further 6 weeks in hospital before been released a very weak person, since then I’ve had 7 hernia operations and a mesh fitted to my stomach lining to prevent more hernias, 4 hand operations and 2 frozen shoulder operations. Since then I’ve struggled mentally and physically to get through day to day tasks no steady job very little sport, PTSD and mental health issues.
So here I am today with a good job thanks to great friends Paul Spooner and Chris Long an amazing woman by my side Hayley Portrey and great children Kayleigh Neve Evelyn and William helping me.
So as you can see I needed to do this boxing as a way of kicking me up the arse and saying you can do this you are stronger than you think 😵‍💫🥊💪🏼 thanks for reading and please keep donating to a great cause.