I will be completing a walking Challenge to raise awareness and fundraise for the British Tinnitus Association, the only national charity specialising in tinnitus support.Thank you for visiting my fundraising page. 

Hi Kelly here, 👋  welcome to my just giving page. My challenge is to walk two mile a day for over a month 😊 I have suffered with severe intrusive tinnitus for nearly 10year now. It impacts on me massively and the last two year made me severly depressed. Its a complex condition that not many understand and it's took me a long time time to adapt to it it along with my  hearing loss. It is a debilitating condition and really hard to live with. 

Last year I hit a real hard place with my health both physically and mentally and tinnitus was one of the root causes. After speaking with my GP they decided I would do small exercise each day to help me, at first I was scared to actually do this I had gone from a sociable person and very active to batteling hearing loss and tinnitus which has totally changed my life. I was scared of living and withdrawn from everything and thought it would be impossible to become well again. 

Each day I stepped outside for fresh air and walked eventually i was walking nearly 8 mile a day got into a great exercise routine,i also had good support from the BTA to. So a few month on and iam slowly rebuilding myself, and decided to  complete a walking  challenge it will be good for my overall health but the main reason exercise helps me deal with tinnitus and depression and iam determined to keep a healthy mind a healthy body!   

 I also want to spread awarness and help anyone else suffering or coming to terms with this condition that they have no cure for. 

Thanks for reading (If you did read)

Best wishes 

Kelly 🦻