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I was diagnosed with MS back in 2007, I was 23 and just two years out of university. I was alone, I knew no one else with MS, let alone someone my own age with MS. Sure. I had friends I could talk to about my balance problems, I even had my girlfriend to confide to about peeing myself in work, but they could only sympathise. All I really wanted was to speak to someone else that had been through the same thing I was going through, and would be going through for the rest of my life.

 

Now the last time I could actually 'run' I was 22, my MS hasn't been kind on my body, it's always seemed to have a 'beef' with me. It soon had me in hospital for a week with horrendous motion sickness, I couldn't eat anything for three days. By the time I came to leave hospital, I had my own wheelchair, fun! No really, it was, I got my fiancée to let me free-wheel down the hill from the pub, narrowly avoiding a pedestrian and a bollard (that chair had some good brakes), when she caught up with me at the bottom of the hill she politely declined pushing me back up to have another go.

 

Since 2008 I've been in and out of hospital numerous times, in wheelchairs, on crutches, going solo, but I've always tried to approach things full on, with my complete conviction, hence the Great North Run. Now, as of writing this, I can barely walk 50 metres on my crutches, and that is on a good day. The Great North Run is 13 miles, which is ... lots. I'm doing my physiotherapy, and I'm aiming for improvements, but I will need encouragement, which is where your donations come in. I promise that for each £1000 I raise for Shift.ms, I will walk one of those 13 miles on my crutches. Which means if I reach my target, it may take me a couple of weeks to finish, but you can be damn sure I will walk all of those 13 miles.

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