You’ve done the Great South Run Before….. So What’s the Big
Deal? 

With three emergency hospital admissions between December 2018 and April 2019, 21 days as an inpatient - including a crash call for a seizure while I was on the ward - weight loss of more than a stone and a half - which put me in age 12 jeans - and a total of 6 months off work and not allowed to drive…. I’d been, as one wise doctor said, “properly ill” and there was a time when I believed nothing would ever be normal again.  

If anyone ever doubted the power of mind over matter or how sheer determination can get you through, I’m now living proof it can…. and I feel so lucky to be alive. 

I’ve spent most of the summer as a medic for the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust and finally, a week ago, the Regional Pancreatic Consultant gave me the 'all clear' – no further interventions required.

I’m so grateful for my health that I’ve entered the Great South Run again to raise money for The Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust. 

Starting from barely being able to walk 50 yards in April and using a wheel-chair to get out with the dogs I’m working my way back to fitness…. I completed the Couch to 5K for the 5th time in 3 years and I’m now close to a sub 30 minute parkrun. I’m aiming to complete the Basingstoke 10K on October 6th and the 10 mile Great South on 20th October. Wish me luck!

I’m sponsoring myself as MyHypnotherapyWorks.

Well it certainly has for me! And it’s one of the benefits of working for myself, in a job I love! But if you feel you give a few quid too I can assure you that it will go to a charity that really does change the lives of all the children, young people and families it touches for the better! I’ve now been volunteering for this amazing charity for over fourteen years and have watched so many wonderful children and young people regain confidence and start to feel normal again! I can now also relate, just a little more, to their struggle having had my own journey to recovery this year.