As most of you know I found out last year that I had a brain tumour. Five days later I had a life threatening operation to remove it. Thanks to those amazing brain surgeons, everything went perfectly and I am now completely fine. I am such a lucky person and I appreciate life so much more since this experience. I really feel for those who are less lucky than me and so I want to do something to raise money for the Samantha Dickson Brain Tumour trust, a charity aimed specifically at research into brain tumours and providing support for sufferers. I have decided to swim the length of the Channel in my local swimming pool. This will be a total of 1416 lengths. I aim to complete this in 2 weeks (12th -25th August) which means I will need to swim about 100 lengths a day.

I cannot thank you all enough for how you helped me through my ordeal – your support meant the world to me. Please spare any amount you can to help me raise as much as possible to help those suffering from brain tumours. Funding research into the brain could save thousands of lives, making this a very worthy cause. Thank you.

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