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<p>Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.</p>
<p>UPDATE - We did it! Just under 50 hours of walking time spread across the 4 days, we arrived in Bath on Sunday at 5.30. Many many thanks to all who have supported us in this!</p>
<p>Me, my brother Paul Smith, and my good friend Andy Clark will be walking the entire length of the Cotswold Way on the 16th - 19th June this year to raise as much as we can for the charity ROSY. That's a grand total of 102 miles in 4 days and will take us from Chipping Camden, across the Cotswolds to Bath!</p>
<p>As some of you will know, our daughter Abigail was born with a condition called Edwards syndrome or Trisomy 18. This is a severely life limiting condition, most babies with this rarely make it through the first 24 hours as there are so many associated problems.</p>
<p>Abigail was a fighter though and lived for 11 weeks and 2 days, eventually passing on New year's day 2008. For the first month of her life none of us left the hospital, but thanks to the help and support of George Hedges and the team at ROSY, we were able to spend the rest of the time we had at home with her.</p>
<p>ROSY - Respite nursing for Oxfordshire's Sick Youngsters is an organisation that raises an awareness of the need for respite nursing and funds to boost the extremely limited resources of the Oxfordshire's Children's Respite Nursing Team, who offer respite nursing to terminally, acutely or chronically ill children and babies in their homes. Their continued support is invaluable to families in similar situations to ours and provides that extra help and friendship that you need to cope with every day. Please look them up at <a href="http://www.rosy.org.uk">www.rosy.org.uk</a></p>
