Extra event update -

This Sunday….28th April 2024.

What would have been our 6th wedding anniversary.

Rather than sitting around imagining what could have been. I want to continue pushing myself.

50km

Visiting 3 significant places that have been part of our story ❤️‍🩹

🔹 Starting at The Mall, London

🔹 Heading to Waltham Abbey, Essex

🔹 Finishing at Essendon, Hertfordshire

It takes as long as it takes but I’ll do it 💪

Let’s see if I can get closer to that £40k 🙏🏼

Updates to come this week, I’ll be personalising a vest again if anyone wants a specific KM 🙏🏼🙌

Thank you so much for visiting my page.

As many of you are aware my beautiful wife Laura was diagnosed with a Sarcoma in 2021 shortly after our daughter Ivy was born.

After tackling this head on with radiotherapy and Laura having surgery in August we thought that our lives would be getting back to normal. Just after New Years we all caught Covid and Laura developed pains around her shoulder and back. These were still thought to be Covid related.

On April 28th 2022 we found out the devastating news that the cancer had returned and had spread to her lungs and spine and is incurable.

Pro longing life was now the aim. Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy would be used to try to slow down/stop/reduce the sizes of the tumours.

Chemotherapy started on Tuesday 24th May 2022. In the early hours of the 28th May Laura lost sensation in her legs and we had to rush her into A&E in Cambridge here we found out that one of the tumours on the spine had caused a spinal cord compression meaning she was paralysed from the ribs down and that this was more than likely a permanent change.

Laura faced this with so much strength and was grateful to be alive. We were still a family and would adapt to the new normal.

We embraced every given day and achieved so many memories.

February 2023 we were told that the chemotherapy wasn’t working and the cancer was very aggressive and had progressed around the body. They told us they needed to focus on pain relief and move Laura onto End of Life Care. We were heartbroken nothing can prepare you for this news. We were told she had a few weeks left to live.

Laura defied these odds and we continued to pack memories into every day and she made it to 8 weeks later.

My heroic wife Laura took her last breath in my arms at 2:30pm on Sunday 9th April surrounded by our family.

I’m now a widow at 31 years old and my daughter has lost her mum at 2 years old.

How I’m going to navigate life now I have no idea. But I promised Laura that we as a family will raise awareness of this cruel disease in the hope that with awareness comes research to develop treatments and prevent other families going through what we have.

Bring on the London Marathon, this time round I’m planning on enjoying the atmosphere remembering Laura and raising as much money as physically possible to make Laura proud.

She will be with me on the day as she is every day.

Thank you for your support.