Hiya everyone 

My name is Paul walker I am a hard working family man, in January of last year my wonderful amazing wife found a small lump inside her breast and was concerned, she visited our local doctor who referred her to the city Hospital Nottingham within a few days.  when examined in the cancer breast unit they presumed the worst immediately performing a biopsy and a mammogram, it was confirmed, our hearts were breaking, they said my wife should be signed off work   from that moment and told us not to give up all hope. So she sat at home away from a Job she loves going to wait for an operation to remove the lump. They said it should sort the problem and a small amount of radiotherapy would beat the horrible disease !! 

After a week the operation came around and was completed successfully leaving my wife with a scar from near her spine to the centre of her chest along the bra line, this all felt bad enough and was so hard for her to take feeling so sick with a pipe drain coming out of her torso for a week draining blood daily, she showed me how strong a person can be impressively showing how tough she really is. 

we revisited the hospital for the results of the lymph node biopsy and even though the operation removed all the cancer from the breast it was present in the lymph nodes under the arm, this meant the dreaded chemotherapy was now going to be needed with all the hell that comes with it sickness, tiredness, it hurts you as much as the Cancer it is attacking chemo leaves nothing in its path untouched. 

The one thing that hurt my wonderful fighter of a wife and still breaks her heart every day is losing all her hair, for a woman I cannot image the deep pain she feels everyday getting ready to leave the house if she has the strength to, she picks a head scarf and goes out to drop our two young children off at school with the weight of all this on her shoulders. She is a legend to me and everyone she knows, knowing that even the common cold could put her in hospital isolation due to chemotherapy destroying almost all of your immune system leaving you fully open and defenceless to infection and germs. 

I live in fear of this happening to my perfect woman every day I try to continue with my normal day to day work and family fun knowing every 21 days she will be back at the hospital sitting in that big comfy chair while the super hero nurses pump the chemotherapy poison into her arm, I then renew the parking pass and take her home starting to feel it taking hold and for 7-8 days she will be taking more pills than you can imagine and inject herself with medicine to protect and preserve her insides while the chemotherapy attacks the cancer as well. the thing with chemotherapy is it can’t pick what it attacks it just kills everything and then after the body can rebuild when the cancer is hopefully gone wiped out, beaten!!. 

my wife has spent plenty of time taking part in sessions and sharing time drinking coffee and tea at Maggie's a wonderful place on the grounds of City Hospital Nottingham where Cancer sufferers survivors friends and family can sit back relax and take a minute while they are serving free tea coffee biscuits and much much more, they have classes to help ladies feel better when all is feeling like a loss, makeup and wig fitting classes to mention a few, I attended with my wife and I felt we were welcomed with open arms and brought into the conversation straight away, the place is full of life when people feel they have so little to be happy about I was taken back by the place. 

so for the help they give to so many and ask for nothing I want to raise money to give just a little back putting my body on the line!!!

I am going to run the ikano Nottingham Half Marathon in September the amount of money I raise will trigger the following things to happen so give give give if you want to laugh at me doing the forfeits below and with this I can give back something to a special place helping my wife and so many others.  

if I hit the donation Target of -

£100 - Run the race wearing pink pop socks  

£150 -  Run the race Wearing a Pink Dress

£200 - Shave all the hair off of my Arms 

£250 - Wear a Pink Sports bra under the dress in the race

£300 - Wear sexy pink pants under the dress

£350 – Shave all the hair off of my legs 

£400 - Shave my Armpits

£500 - WAX my Back AAAAAGH!

£550 - WAX MY CHEST DOUBLE AAAAAAGH! 

£600 - if I hit my target I will run another half marathon and continue to raise money till then setting another target wearing the dress, Bra and Pop socks 

New targets posted now get donations flying in

£850- good friends Kier and Simon wet shave their arm pits live on camera
£900- big uncle Tony shaves his legs on video
£1000- have my ears pieced for the race
£1100- have false nails done 💅in pink for the race
£1200 - spray tan before the race
£1350 - wear pink fish nets for the race
£1500 - run to the forest ground from Kimberley on match day and go to the match in the dress !! With my mates !

- £3200

we have been entered by maggie's in to the London marathon now i know i cant believe, am i mad enough to do this in a dress i bloody am i tell you so we now have to raise £3000 minimum i really think we can do it so follow the Facebook running i a pink dress to beat cancer pass it on to your friends and family come along to the events and cheer us on please, if you can run with us to the forest ground and go to the game. 

we love the support and it is amazing to feel the affection of all our friends and family but also the people who are just touched by our story. 

losing the hair was the thing that hurt the most and still hurts so much for my beautiful wife, so I hope people seeing me trying to laugh some of her pain away will be enough for them to donate and smash this target out of the water. 

I will be starting a Facebook and twitter page and all shaving and trying on of the items will be shared wish me luck and pray for my wife to beat cancer after besting the chemotherapy, we need all your support. 

I feel that making my wife smile every day is my greatest talent she is the glue that holds our amazing family together. 

thank you everyone at Nottingham City Hospital and Maggie's for you continuing support. 

just want to mention at the end we couldn't make it through this I really believe that without the help and support of our wonderful Family and Friends, from flowers cards phone calls messages taking the kids to school and parties having them over night to give us a break always being there when we really need you thank you!!! we love you all xx

so stop reading and start donating because the WAX is ordered !!