Many thanks for your donation and the support this will provide to Tiny Lives in Tyne & Wear.
Whilst my last bike was not a penny farthing or even a chopper it has been almost 14-years since I rode a bike & the only peddles I have pushed since are in my car so some parts of my body are not looking forward to this challenge.
The short notice opportunity for me to take part in the C2C will make this my biggest ever challenge made all the more worth while for the monies it will raise, I voluteered on the 1st of April & fool I may be but it was an opportunity I could not pass up.
The following has been copied from Danielle's page.
"On 08/10/05 our daughter Megan was born and went to heaven. She was born with a rare chromosomal defect called Edwards syndrome. Which means her chromosome's tripled instead of duplicating.This caused Megan to have lots of abnormalities.
Megan was born full term with no detection that anything was wrong until she was born, Doctors were unsure what was wrong so they arranged for the flight team from Newcastle's RVI to come and give their opinion. This concluded in Megan being transferred to the RVI special care baby unit as the hospital she was born in didn't have the equipment she required.
This was when it started to sink in that our daughter was seriously ill and we were unsure of what was going on until we arrived at the RVI baby unit, where Megan was hooked up to a number of tubes and machines trying to keep her alive.
The roller coaster ride started this was the worst time of our lives.
Standing by the side of the incubator watching your daughter fight for her life is absolutely horrendous knowing that you can't do anything to help.Then the time came for us to say goodbye to our daughter as she couldn't fight anymore. Numb we rang family to get them to come and meet Megan for the 1st and last time.
The nurses were fantastic with us, they made a room available just for us and our family, they lent us a camera to take photos so that we had some pictures of Megan with her big sister Caitlin and family, they involved Caitlin in bathing Megan and doing her hand and foot prints for us to keep. They really couldn't do enough for us.
At this time you don't think of the costs of machines etc used within the unit, you just take it for granted that the machines are needed and will be available.This is not the case as the machines cost thousands of pounds and the unit require upgraded machines, new machines, tubes etc the list is endless. If it wasn't for people like you and I that donated to the charity these machines wouldn't be available and lots of babies wouldn't be given the chance of survival.
Since loosing Megan we as a family have done what we can to raise money for the TINY LIVES trust.
So as it is nearly 5 years since Megan died. In her memory myself and 9 other women have decided to try and raise as much money as we possibly can for TINY LIVES by getting donations and sponsors from everyone who knows us.
To do the coast to coast cycle ride on May bank holiday weekend 2010. (the words mental spring to mind I know!)
I would like to ask you for a little support and donate what you can to TINY LIVES in memory of MEGAN WILLIAMS
our daughter.
Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page and your support and donations the money you have donated will be put to very good use by Tiny Lives."
So please dig as deep as you can afford and donate now to support Tiny Lives and if possible St Gemmas the saying "every penny counts" is never more true!
Many Thanks
Steve
