My Story

I definitely won't forget the day my mum told me she was ill. It was during my first term at university and I was home for reading week. We had just run from Tesco to the car because it was raining hard. She just came out with it, three words that would change our lives forever: "I have cancer." The tears came before I think I had even digested the news properly.

My first thought was of a summer evening several years previously. I had a friend over for dinner and we were sat at the table eating. I don't remember how the conversation had turned to cancer. I vividly remember my mum saying that one of us at that table would most likely get it. Those were the statistics. I didn't believe her.

I never for one second thought that my mum wouldn't be there to celebrate my 21st birthday with me or that she would miss the moment I walked across the stage on my graduation day. 

I didn't buy the fact she wouldn't be there to see me off at the airport when I set off to travel the world or that she wouldn't be there to meet me when I returned home.

If I can raise even a small amount of sponsorship money by taking part in Cancer Research UK's Race for Life to help fight cancer so that another young person has their mum or dad by their side to walk them down the aisle on their wedding day or is there to see their first grandchild when they are just a few minutes old then that has got to be something positive. 

Cancer Research UK's Race for Life

I'm joining Cancer Research UK's Race for Life this year. Please join the fight by digging deep and sponsoring me - it's quick, easy and totally secure.

Events like this are vital in funding Cancer Research UK's life-saving work into preventing, diagnosing and treating cancer. By sponsoring me, we can unite and create an army that cancer can't ignore. By sponsoring me, we will beat cancer sooner.

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If you're a UK taxpayer, please remember to tick the Gift Aid box as this will increase your donation by at least 25% at no extra cost to you.

Sponsor me now, and help me show cancer that hell hath no fury like a woman in pink.