We spent Christmas 2008 in the Piam Brown ward Southampton Hospital (For Children's Cancer) with my brother Lewis aged 11. He was diagnosed with Lymblastic Lymphoma stage 4 Cancer.

Jan the consultant and her staff are amazing and have been very helpful. The facilities make the unit a better place to be and we would like to help out in anyway we can. This is the start of our fund raising for Piam Brown Ward to help other families in the same situation as we found ourselves in.

When Lewis's hair starts to fall out me (James), my older brother (ben), and my father (mark) will all be shaving our heads for charity. We will then be taking part in a 10k run.

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