I am the proud adoptive Uncle of a little girl called Lucy who has been helped greatly by this amazing charity.  I think it best to read Lucy's story through her mum's words to understand why I'm doing this challenging ride and trying to raise as much money as I can for a great charity.  I'll be riding 386 miles in one go from IKEA Reading in Berkshire to IKEA Glasgow with a time limit of 48 hours starting on the 14th March.  It will be one of my toughest challenges to date but nothing compared to what families go through on a daily basis.  I remember visiting Lucy's parents, Adam and Lynn, in hospital and feeling helpless and extremely sad.  But knowing they were getting support from Glasgow Children's Hospital Charity made me realise how vital their service is.  You can follow my progress with the link here which is the live tracker I will have on me:

http://racedrone.net/event/craig-moffat .  

Here's Lucy's story.  


"After 5 rounds of IVF and 3 miscarriages, we
finally fell pregnant with our miracle baby. And that’s exactly what Lucy is.

Hearing our longed for baby’s heartbeat for the first time was the best moment in our life so far! As long as there was a heartbeat then our baby was okay! Or so we naively thought! We found out at 23 weeks that Lucy's heart hadn’t developed properly. We were devastated but we knew we had to find out as much as we could about her condition and prepare ourselves for the future.

Lucy was born  in the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow.  Shortly after birth she was taken to the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at the Glasgow Children's Hospital where her main diagnosis of Double Inlet Left Ventricle was made (in basic terms, she only had half a heart).

At 18 weeks old Lucy underwent her first open heart surgery at the same hospital. The 17th March 2016 was the longest, hardest day of our lives as we waited patiently for news from the Surgeon. The relief we felt when she arrived back in recovery was quite overwhelming and seeing her with all the tubes and machines was scary but at least she had survived and her surgery had gone as well as could be expected.

Lucy is 3 now and continues to thrive.  She attends the Children's
Hospital or regular reviews and will have her next open heart surgery there when she is 5 years old.

The staff at the hospital are nothing short of amazing. From the day we
found out about Lucy’s condition to now, everyone we have met has helped us to be confident in caring for Lucy and we honestly couldn’t trust them more! 

We have so much to thank them for and words are not
enough but hopefully we can help raise a little bit for their charity to help them to continue to support our warrior children and their families."





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