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On Saturday 14th September I'll be taking part in Girls Night Out in Bury St. Edmunds, walking 11.2 miles in PJs to raise money for St. Nicholas Hospice. This is why:

In summer 2010 life could not be more perfect - 2 healthy children (a boy and a girl), lovely hubby, about to complete on our first house as a family. But then the things turned nasty when I discovered a lump in my breast. The diagnosis came back from the biopsy with a stage 3 cancer! The roller coaster of operations, complications, chemotherapy and radiotherapy closely followed by an oophorectomy took over our lives for the next 15 months - resulting in 5 hospital admissions, vacuum pump therapy for 5 weeks to beat the time and heal the post op wound that had re opened in order for the chemo to be effective, and finishing by my consultant removing my ovaries as I was diagnosed with an allergy to tamoxifen, the only drug prescribed for the pre menopausal women to combat the chances of cancer returning. Whilst all this was going on I encountered a number of people less fortunate than me - mainly whilst spending christmas 2010 (my little girls 1st Christmas) on the Macmillan ward of WSH as an inpatient due to neutropenic sepsis - witnessing people not making it through the treatment. I couldn't ask for better care from Macmillan nurses and Nurses from St. Nicholas Hospice at this very difficult time. I have returned to work in February 2012 and doing the GNO walk is my way of saying massive thank you to all of them! Working for Barclays Bank means that the first £750 of what I will manage to raise will be match by my employer through a £4£ scheme

It is my first fundrasing event involving any form of physical activity since my cancer treatment and I am determined to finish it!

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