So yeah, I’m running the London Marathon this year. 😳

26.2 miles,  over 500 miles in training to date and another 200 before the start line… 

all for LOROS and my lovely Dad, Peter Paris, RIP.    

In 2019, Dad was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. And for almost 2 years he fought it, with the support from our local GP, NHS staff at the LRI. 

But in September 2020, Dad’s health took a major turn for the worse and we knew his time was quickly running out.

Enter LOROS. 

The most amazing charity, who took control of a spiraling situation we just couldn’t.

Having not lost anyone in this way before, LOROS were able to give us compassionate and invaluable support, but more importantly they gave Dad free care when all other treatment avenues had been exhausted. 

They were at the end of the phone and provided care staff and a palliative care consultant to come to our house. They talked us through the options for end of life and helped us to come up with a plan that would minimize pain, maximize comfort and respectfully adhered to everything Dad wanted in the last weeks of his life.

They were consistently there to help guide us through the most difficult time of our life, as we journeyed further and further into the unknown. And I honestly can’t imagine how we would have navigated any of it without them.

Yet, LOROS is a charity that relies on voluntary donations, they are not the funded organisation you would be forgiven for thinking they were. 

So, it blows my mind that without donations and fundraising they desperately need, families just like ours and people dying from cancer just like Dad would not have the care and compassion they so desperately need at crucial times like this. 

So, I am running the marathon for Dad, for LOROS and for all the other families who will need the support and care LOROS provides every single day. 

I am already digging deep and am training hard at the moment - feel free to add me on Strava (Lorna Croucher) or Instagram @lornapariscrouchie where I am documenting my journey. 

So, please do anything you can to help support LOROS and the 2,500 patients and families they care for each year, as I take on the prestigious London Marathon in 2022.

I hope to make you proud, Dad, and will be thinking of you every step of the way (all 63,000 or so, of them). 🙌🏻