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Raising money for Breathtakers
I'm running the Great North 10k and the GNR for Breathtakers because more research needs to be done into this disease!
Event: Bupa Great North Run 2012 on 16/09/2012
$639.79 raised of $377.24 target
29 donations
My Target:
$377.24
$639.79 raised so far
How to make a donation
Donate online at - www.justgiving.com/Susan-Whiffin
By mobile internet Scan this code on your smartphone to go straight to Susan Whiffin's page.
By text message to donate £10 Text NHRW90 £10
to 70070
My story
Well..... my Greta North Run 2012 didn't go as planned - didn't go at all actually!!
Thanks to an ankle injury (which is currently being investigated...) I couldn't take part in the run this year BUT I am guaranteed a place in the 2013 run so I will be back training as soon as I'm fixed!
To those of you who sponsored me for 2012 - thanks SO much, please consider your donation as being a year in advance!
Here's 'my' story....
Imagine your gorgeous, funny, perfectly healthy little boy catches a cold just days after his first birthday. It then turns to pneumonia which results in a fairly scary stay in hospital so he can be hooked up to oxygen and a feeding tube. Bad enough eh? Well now imagine that weeks later, after numerous medicines and tests, being told that your beautiful baby had actually contracted a post infective disease that has destroyed one of his lungs and a third of his other one. That lungs do not regenerate. That he is at the severe end of the spectrum and will now need oxygen 24/7 for the forseeable future. That very little is known about this rare disease called Obliterative Bronchiolitis (OB), but best case scenario is that he won’t get any worse….
This all happened to a very good friends of mine, Fiona and Duncan Phin and their fantastic son William, in December 2010, and it’s why I’m running the Great North 10K in July and the Great North Run (13.1 miles) in September this year. I’m hoping to raise some money for the Breathtakers charity that has supported the Phin family on their journey so far.
Very little research has been carried out into OB to date, and this is where Breathtakers are trying to help. Please read more about the charity to the right...
As OB is such a rare lung condition, the doctors are unable to give the Phin family any long term advice on how William will cope with this as he gets older. He is on oxygen constantly (which brings its own set of challenges), regular check ups at Newcastle’s RVI, daily physio to help his lungs clear mucus, and regular antibiotics to try and avoid him catching infections that he is at a higher risk of catching. At night William is put on a non-invasive ventilator which helps him to breath more easily.
As for William's future, the Phin family take this day by day, month by month. It has been a year since his diagnosis and he has coped very well in that time, he’s a happy, clever, chirpy little boy and never fails to make me laugh! Fiona and Duncan make sure that he has a better social life than most 2 year olds I know, he gets out and about all over and has a lot of fun! I'm sure he will not let this beat him, and your donation could help him get as much out of life as he possibly can.
Please dig deep and donate what you can to this VERY worthy cause.... thank you.
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My charity
Breathtakers
Charity Registration No. 1125330
Breathtakers is the UK's only charity supporting Obliterative Bronchiolitis(OB)- a rare lung disorder. Breathtakers offers pratical and emotional support to sufferers and their families and raises awarenes of the condition amongst professionals.OB is life limiting, treatment is only supportive, lung transplant maybe an option in end stage disease.
Donations 29
We'll look out for you at the finish line!! Go swiftly Whiffy xx
Donation by Cairine Chandler on 07/09/12
£20.00
+ £5.00 Gift Aid
Have fun
Donation by kathryn colquhoun on 03/09/12
£10.00
+ £2.50 Gift Aid
Go Whiff Go. Give that 10.5 mile hill some stick when you see it past the Nook!
Donation by Ally Donathy on 31/08/12
£20.00
+ £5.00 Gift Aid
Well done little Sis....great cause (any chance of a piggy back!!).
Donation by Nigel Platt on 31/08/12
£10.00
+ £2.50 Gift Aid
Good luck Susan - and a great cause too...
Donation by Nick Williams on 31/08/12
£10.00
+ £2.50 Gift Aid
Dare you to run it topless - best of love & luck bonny lass x
Donation by Piers Thom on 30/08/12
£10.00
+ £2.50 Gift Aid
Goodluck missus.x
Donation by LORRAINE MCGILL on 29/08/12
£5.00
A very worthy charity. Have a fantastic day!
Donation by Karen Roberts on 28/08/12
£5.00
+ £1.25 Gift Aid
Donation by Zakariya Rafiq on 28/08/12
£5.00
+ £1.25 Gift Aid
Hope you manage to smash your pb...well done
Donation by Andy on 28/08/12
£10.00
+ £2.50 Gift Aid
Run whiffers run! Get those knees up girl :-) love Kazza xxx
Donation by Karen Ainley on 28/08/12
£10.00
+ £2.50 Gift Aid
Donation by Suzanne Shatford on 27/08/12
£20.00
+ £5.00 Gift Aid
You go girl!
Donation by Niki Orchard on 27/08/12
£10.00
+ £2.50 Gift Aid
Good luck Susan - this is such a fantastic thing you are doing, enjoy the day! x
Donation by Emma Gaffney on 31/07/12
£5.00
+ £1.25 Gift Aid
Run florist, run
Donation by Dave Whiffin on 31/07/12
£50.00
+ £12.50 Gift Aid
Go Whiffers go! Good luck xx
Donation by Clare Lindsey on 30/07/12
£5.00
+ £1.25 Gift Aid
good luck Whiffin.. enjoy the run, the Red Arrows and finally seeing the sea.. good effort..
Donation by Duncan W on 26/07/12
£10.00
+ £2.50 Gift Aid
Good luck, Susan
Donation by Dale Rivers on 26/07/12
£5.00
Donation by Andrew Whiffin on 25/07/12
£10.00
+ £2.50 Gift Aid
All the best from all at sys-care
Donation by sys-care on 25/07/12
£20.00
Good luck Susan, it's a really worthwhile cause to support.
Donation by Lynne Henderson on 25/07/12
£10.00
+ £2.50 Gift Aid
Great cause enjoy the run!
Donation by Mick McGhee on 25/07/12
£10.00
+ £2.50 Gift Aid
Good luck!
Donation by Gillian Livingstone on 25/07/12
£5.00
+ £1.25 Gift Aid
Best of luck from all at Eureka - have you asked if there is a bus to take you back to the start?
Donation by Alistair Livingstone on 25/07/12
£100.00
+ £25.00 Gift Aid
Good luck, not that you need it. You will be fab! xxxx
Donation by Laura David on 22/07/12
£5.00
+ £1.25 Gift Aid
Donation summary
- * Online donations$639.79
- Offline donations$0.00
- Text donations$0.00
- Total raised$639.79
- Gift Aid$147.12
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