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In August 2017 we are packing up and strapping up to walk the Pennine Way. Why? because we are hoping to make a difference and further improve the care on Osborn One within the Princess Royal Spinal Cord Injury Centre in Sheffield, which also happens to be where we work as health care professionals! (fancy that!). The centre is one out of twelve across the country and also one of the busiest. Patients come to Sheffield from around the country for rehabilitation after they have acquired a Spinal Cord Injury. Osborn One otherwise known as Acute Spinal Injuries receives patients from ITU/HDU areas and patients who are still coming to terms and adjusting with the fact that they have newly aquired a spinal cord injury and their life has changed forever in one way or another. These injuries are aquired from traumatic incidents, medical problems and even everyday accidents and every patient is affected differently so we deliver unique care to every individual. All the Doctors, Nurses, Healthcare Assistants, Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists put 100% percent into their job and without being biased, myself and Zoe have seen some amazing stories within the unit and have watched our patients leave the unit as independent people who have learnt to live with the condition and love themselves after a Spinal Cord Injury. And this is why we want to raise the money!! 

Now depending on what we raise depends on what we are able to purchase with the money all you lovely people donate!! But the aim is to help contribute to a multifunctional room that will be available to all the patients including those who have a higher and more compromising paralysis and even those with tracheostomies and those who are ventilator dependent. We are hoping the room would be somewhere where patients can relax and socialise together, and even offer therapeutic methods of care to diverse the care the unit delivers. Because we are staff members we have first hand been told by patients the things they think the unit needs in order to improve and it is clear most are eager to be more independent and have equipment available that will make them feel more like themselves and less like they are an illness. We are very eager to achieve this vision we have and who knows, if people are generous we could even exceed what we hoped on achieving! With your help!!

The Pennine Way is also known as the 'backbone' of Britain. The walk is 287 miles in total and we are aiming to walk this in 16 days with only a tent, a map and compass and each other (oh dear, HaHa!)  to get us from one point to the next, anyone that is familiar with moorland walking will know the pennine way is going to be a challenge!! Oh and we forgot to say, neither of us are experienced in walking this far or for this long, most will say we're mad, but we want to do this for this patients and as an achievement for ourselves.

So please help donate and support us as much u can, myself, Zoe and all the patients and staff on Osborn One will be forever grateful and in return you will see a difference you have made to people's life ❤️