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Jumping in aid of Muscles For Mitchell
My job takes me onto the roofs of some amazing buildings around the North, I've never jumped off one before!
So for some bizarre reason, I've decided to jump off one of the North East region’s most iconic buildings. I'm going to zip across the River Tyne from the rooftop of BALTIC on Sunday 5th March at 4pm.
I'll be a whopping 45m from the ground and gliding across the river on a 280m zip line experiencing speeds of up to 40mph.
Why? I'll tell you why...
When I was growing up, one of my best friends in Infants and Junior school had Muscular Dystrophy so it's been something I grew up with. When my daughter started school and one of the boys in her class, Mitchell was diagnosed with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy in 2014. It brought it all back to me, remembering my friend and his struggle with the disease.
There's no cure for Mitchell's condition and the natural course of the disease means that his muscles will waste away over time as his body is not able to make the muscle stabiliser dystrophin. At some point he'll lose the ability to walk.
Mitch is like any other little boy. He knows he has poorly muscles and that they can't be fixed. He wants to run as fast as his friends and not get 'worned out' so quickly. He wishes that Santa could fix his muscles, or that there was 'just some medicine that will magic it all better'.
There isn't!
This page is to help raise awareness of this condition and to raise vital funds towards essential research. All donations go to Duchenne charities and to funding vital research to find suitable treatments for this stinker of a disease.
In their first year Muscles For Mitchell raised over £20, 000 for Harrison's Fund which went towards supporting their investment in promising research and improving access to clinical trials in the UK.
Please like and share the facebook page to keep up to date with news and forthcoming events and to help raise awareness:
https://www.facebook.com/MusclesforMitchell
Thank you for your continued support.
Mitch is like any other little boy. He knows he has poorly muscles and that they can't be fixed. He wants to run as fast as his friends and not get 'worned out' so quickly. He wishes that Santa could fix his muscles, or that there was 'just some medicine that will magic it all better'.
There isn't!
This page is to help raise awareness of this condition and to raise vital funds towards essential research. All donations go to Duchenne charities and to funding vital research to find suitable treatments for this stinker of a disease.
In their first year Muscles For Mitchell raised over £20, 000 for Harrison's Fund which went towards supporting their investment in promising research and improving access to clinical trials in the UK.
Please like and share the facebook page to keep up to date with news and forthcoming events and to help raise awareness:
https://www.facebook.com/MusclesforMitchell
Thank you for your continued support.