UPDATE 27 April 2013:

I am now being sponsored NOT to run (as I have a mangled ankle from a running accident!) but I'm doing  this some way, somehow; by biking mainly, off road and for longer than 10k each day, as well as lots of walking.

 

I went back to The Royal Marsden Hospital recently and it was the first time I'd been back for 31 years since the last time I saw my/our Mum. She died there after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer four years earlier. I thought it was going to be very hard, and it was in a way, but it made me remember just what a special place this is for cancer patients and their friends and families.

I met a lot of people that day, it was a day for The Marsden's fundraising marathon runners to meet up and I was there to answer their training questions. Every one of them moved me, a lot of them had or had had cancer and been treated at the hospital, it was emotional. It was also strange because the first person who came to talk to me was running for his Mum, who was with him, and when I asked her about her cancer it was ovarian cancer. I thought that was uncanny and maybe my Mum was saying hello in a funny way!

This place is amazing, people say they have cancer treatment elsewhere but when they get to The Marsden things are so different. The care they give to all involved is very special; not only that but their level of treatment is at the forefront.

I hope that if you or anyone you love gets cancer (please, I hope not), that they have access to this sort of care.

 

If you are donating, thank you so much. 

 

Sal xx