As many of you know I was diagnosed with epilepsy in my teens. It’s been a tough role but through all of it I’ve had immense support from friends, family and my   amazing epilepsy team at the heath hospital in Cardiff. As we now know due to one of my anti seizure medications (sodium valproate/epilim chrono) me and Steve are unable to have children biologically without risking the child’s life.

I know this isn’t something very well known about outside of the epilepsy community so I’m doing it for all of us ‘can’t wait to be mum’s’ no matter which way we go about it. 

You’ll notice the event says London marathon 2019 and that is where my journey started but unfortunately with finding out about epilim and deciding where we were going to go from there I kind of switched off mentally but epilepsy action have been amazing and let me have a space again for 2020 and I’m determined to finish even if it’s the last race I ever run. 

Please spare any spare pennies or pounds. I’d be truly grateful because this really needs to be spoken about more, more research to be done and hopefully an alternative drug for women like me who can’t currently come off of sodium valproate will be found 💜💜💜💜