It’s about this time every year that I revisit the time of my brain tumour diagnosis. 

Thanks to a very talented team at the Walton Centre in Liverpool, it didn’t signal the end of my life, but the surgery and rehab effectively ended my first career.

Fast forward to today and I’m 20 years into the survival and 18 years into my chosen second career in education.

Today I was looking into a topic for my teaching and I noted how much we still rely upon some very old concepts and theories.

This got me thinking about what research progress has been made in the past two decades for my type of brain tumour, and the short answer is not a great deal.

I thought this was really disappointing, particularly as I’d personally invested 5 years post-op being scanned, prodded and measured in order to further the research knowledge base.

So what to do?

I’m doing this challenge in February2024 – not massive but it is something 😊

I'm going to run 15 miles in February and help fund the fight against brain tumours.

Why £137?  - It's because that figure represents 5% of the cost of a day’s research at a Brain Tumour Research Centre of Excellence. 

Why this Charity:

Brain tumours kill more children and adults under the age of 40 than any other cancer, yet just 1% of the national spend on cancer research has been allocated to this devastating disease since records began in 2002. Brain Tumour Research is determined to change this.