🎽💰Please sponsor me!😍💜

On 24th April 2023, at the age of 35 I was diagnosed with Stage 2 Grade 2 Invasive Ductal Carcinoma. Breast Cancer. Which was pretty crap to say the least!

Since then I have spent the last year having surgery, gene testing, 4 months of chemotherapy, and 10 rounds of radiotherapy. It has been one hell of a journey, but I am lucky to have remained pretty healthy throughout (apart from the whole cancer thing🙈).

I’m running the London Landmarks Half Marathon on 7th April 2024 to raise money for the amazing charity Macmillan. Macmillan do loads of great stuff but for me the most hugely important thing they’ve done is basically hold my hand... 

🏩 Cancer treatment is an overwhelming and confusing process, involving (for me) a variety of doctors and nurses, from different departments of multiple hospitals. The Macmillan nurses were there at almost all of my appointments and always at the end of the phone to answer my many panicked questions and translate the medical language.
🏩 They were there from the start to give advice on how to tell our young children that I had cancer - on hand to chase up much awaited scan results - and there even just to let me quite literally sob on their shoulders.
🏩 They do such amazing work and I don’t even have words for the difference they make.

I still have 10 years of hormone therapy ahead of me - but I’m very glad to be done with active treatment! 💪

I’m so grateful to not only all the NHS staff who have helped me along the way but also my BEAUTIFUL family and friends who have held up my family and I over the last year. 💞

So if you can spare a few quid please do! I WILL be running 13.1 miles - to raise money for an amazing charity - to celebrate my healthy and healing body - and last but not least to inspire my 3 wonderful children to always believe that no matter how hard life rains on you, you can always get back up and make a big fat sparkling rainbow. 🌈