London marathon to raise for a pace maker to save one life

denney lau is raising money for Royal Papworth Hospital Charity
In memory of Tom Lau
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London Marathon 2019 · 28 April 2019 ·

We support the work of Royal Papworth Hospital as the UK’s leading centre of excellence for the treatment and diagnosis of cardiothoracic disease, to provide additional amenities for our patients and their families and to fund Papworth’s pioneering research activity and vision for the future.

Story

By the time I am on the start line at the London marathon, my dad would have passed away for 10 years.

11 years ago, my dad was home alone when he suffered a major heart attack, he was rushed to hospital and was put into a coma before being transferred to papworth hospital.  

As a 27 years old at the time, I was immature and not spent much time with my dad growing up and I genuinely believed that I would not see my dad again but papworth hospital never gave up and gave him a second life by fitting a secondary external artificial heart machine and after a few months, my dad left the hospital with cheers and best wishes from all the staff from the critical care unit.  We knew without a transplant we were on borrowed time.

During the next year, I was able to make many happy memories with my father, including introducing him to my now wife, attending our engagement party, saw me qualified as a solicitor and seeing our new home.

Unfortunately with the lack of organ donor, his heart eventually gave way a year later.

I can still remember when I received the phone call from my mum telling me dad was found unconscious again.  I was overweight and unfit to the stage that I could not even run from my workplace to the carpark to rush to see him for one last time.

Since then I turned grief into energy and starting running, so to mark the tenth anniversary, I would really like to raise £1500 which is the cost of one pace maker.

I really hope that we can raise enough together to literally save one person's life, or even to extend someone's life even for a short period so happy memories can be made.

Donation summary

Total
£107.00
+ £26.75 Gift Aid
Online
£107.00
Offline
£0.00

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