This year i'm doing things differently. I am working as a team for these events, I will be doing the Yorkhill egg run with Stewart "Pooh" Russell (The egg run again was a huge success. We raised £255 by this point but reserved pestering folk for donations till now! Tough Mudder is our main even for this year!)

But I will also be taking part "possibly the toughest event on the planet"  in "Tough Mudder" ( an 11 mile assault course!) In a team with Carl "Rash" Harris, Paul "Relic" Harris and a new participant Chrissy "need an R nickname" Woods

http://toughmudder.co.uk/events/scotland/

To join in with this, the current plan is to let my hair continue to grow until the week before the event, at which point it will be   shaved into a mohawk (the hair bit is job dependant.)

Last year i aimed for £700 yet raised £1400, so this time i've set the original target at £1300, i want to push for as much as possible and this is now over two events.

As most of you know, I have always been happy to raise & donate money for charity.

My youngest neice (now recently turned 2 years old) suffered an enlarged heart at 4months old.  (now to fill in the rest in my sisters words)

Lucy was rushed into Yorkhill Childrens hospital in Glasgow and immediatly put into a medicaly induced coma and put on a ventilator. She was pumped full of drugs to keep her heart going as they assessed the situation. At this point we were told that she was in the rule of thirds. A third of kids with this problem will make a full recovery, a third will survive but always require medical intervention and a third will die. we had no idea what group she was in but we hoped for the best and feared the worst. As a week and a half went by she got no better.

After about a week of them being at her bedside and sleeping next door to the hospital.

We got a phone call in our room at 5am telling us Lucy's heart had gone into a strange rhythm. i have never run so fast in my entire life. we were back by her side in 3 minutes. So to cut a long and very painfull story short, she crashed and even with all the heart recussitation drugs her heart couldn't support her. She was immediately put on the ECMO machine which is a heart lung bipass. Basically taking over the job of both her heart and lungs. The ventilator was still used but this was only to keep her lungs from closing up entirely. At this point lucy was put on the emergency transplant list.

So as the days went by again we were told her chances were getting slimmer. she then developed an infection from her stomach and got septicemia (blood poisoning) as a result. Her left lung then collapsed and her kidneys failed. Her stomach then bloated so badly due to the infection that she was now at risk of having a ruptured bowel. Sitting by and watching my darling little child slowly getting worse infront of my eyes is the most heart breaking things i have ever had to endure. We were watching as her hopes were slowely slipping away.

Since then Lucy has recieved a heart transplant along with a pacemaker and Tracheotomy, She is back in Glasgow and is living a life that over a year ago seemed impossible. She is making a great recovery and is now seeming like a normal child.

All i can ask is Please Please Please donate to help allow Yorkhill to continue to provide the support that helped keep our family from loosing Lucy.