In November 2010 I was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma, if you are not familiar with it, it is a Bone Marrow Cancer, which at present is treatable but not curable.
I have been treated with radiotherapy for a tumour on my spine, an operation to stabilise my spine and I now have two30cm rods connecting my spine to my neck. I have undergone two oral courses of chemotherapy, the first course resulting in me being hospitalised with pneumonia on the 2nd of January, I have had further treatment using a potent drug called Velcade, which has given me peripheral neuropathy in both my hands and feet, and all this within the first two years since diagnosis.
In March 2014 I underwent my first Stem Cell Transplant, having successfully come through two e-coli infections while recovering in hospital, I have gratefully had almost 40 months of improving condition.
Over the last seven years I have tried to support Myeloma UK and give as much as could be raised for research/development of new drugs or that very evasive cure for everyone suffering from Myeloma. I have completed, with the help of family and friends, an 8 kilometre winter walk, a 165' abseil down the Forth Rail Bridge, amazing "Walk with Me" and BBQ for the last three years as part of the Livingston Rotary Club fellowship, so the first of this years challenge's is during Myeloma Awareness Week with 2017's "Walk with Me" with my family and friends, and my fellow members of Livingston Rotary Club on a 4 mile trek around Livingston South on the 25th of June.

Keep an eye out for the second of this years challenge's which back to the Forth Rail Bridge in October with a limited crew this time, some new faces and some good old support crew, this time I plan to be fit and well before I jump off the bridge.

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