Sharee Tingle
Sharee & Mark's Bupa Great North Run 2014 page
Fundraising for Freeman Heart & Lung Transplant Association
Story
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Born Dec 1983. On Friday the 13th of August 1985 I was handed a death sentence, that being the diagnosis of the genetically inherited disease Cystic Fibrosis, which causes progressive lung damage and for which there is currently no cure. In January 2010, a severe bout of pneumonia caused a massive decline in my health and I was in and out of hospital on a monthly basis and was reliant on supplementary oxygen. In November 2010 I was referred to the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle to be assessed for a double lung transplant. On January 7th 2011, I was placed on the UK’s active transplant list.
Words can't explain the whirlwind of emotions that you and your loved ones go through whilst waiting for a transplant. I knew the statistics, it could take days, months, years even to find a match and I could die waiting. But I’d come so far and wasn’t ready to die yet even though at 27 years of age I was been told in no uncertain terms that without a transplant I would die. I was staring my own mortality in the face.
I waited 7 months and 27 days with two false alarms during that time. Then in August 2011 my life was to change forever. I recieved the phone call that didnt just save my life, it gave me back my life. It gave me a future!
So now we want to give something back, I want to use the gift of life that I so gratefully received to help other's in my situation. This year myself and my fiancee Mark are going to be pounding the streets of Newcastle and South Shields to raise money for the Heart and Lung transplant unit at the Freeman hospital in Newcastle where I under-went my transplant. The staff at this unit are beyond amazing and undoubtedly saved my life and continue to do so with the very best of care. From the amazing surgeons and specialist ICU nurses to the cleaning staff they are an amazing bunch of people who run in my opinion the very best transplant unit in Europe.
So please help us to raise as much money as we can so that these fantastic people can continue to save lives!
Please feel free to read more about my transplant journey at www.livesshorteatpuddingfirst.blogspot.com
From the bottom of our hearts.
Thankyou xxx