As a team we are raising money for the Aplastic Aneamic Trust, in honour of a close friend who suffers from this savage disease.
Aplastic Anemia is when the blood unexpectedly starts attacking and killing the persons bone Marrow.
With only 38 years of age Glen was diagnosed with this condition and for 8 months he had to attend his local hospital 3 times a week to be pumped full of blood which took 6 hours each day. He was rushed to hospital 4 times during this period with infections and complications as he had no immune system to fight anything.
At the time of writing this Glen had been in an isolation room for eight weeks, during which he had received chemo and a bone marrow transplant. Within a week he saw an increase in blood counts for the first time since diagnosis.
Every year just 1 in 1.1 million people are diagnosed with this rare disease so the charity that raise funds to research this illness gets very little publicity.
We are just a bunch of normal people, so Yes Tough Mudder will be really tough, but with each other’s help we will ‘achieve the extraordinary’ in order to help others who have do the same, just to survive.
