Just one more day….

In Sept 2022 just one year after diagnosis our darling Jenny died aged just 28. She had been diagnosed with glioblastoma multiform, the most aggressive and untreatable brain cancer there is. It came from nowhere. Despite many surgeries, treatment and weeks in hospital she died too young and with so many unfulfilled dreams. In her memory I am stepping way out of my comfort zone to run the London marathon in 2026, I’m not a runner and it will be hard, but nothing compared to what my darling Jenny endured. I know a cure is some way away but I’m running to improve research and treatment to give another family maybe just one more day together; we would have given the world for one more day to say I love you; to hold your hand; to put the world to rights and if another family can have that day or a week or a month then this ridiculous idea will be worth every step and every minute of training. Jenny and I said we’d do this together one day and although she won’t be by my side she’ll be in my head. Together we will complete it.

One in three people in the UK knows someone affected by a brain tumour. This disease is indiscriminate; it can affect anyone at any age. 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. It is the only national charity focused on finding a cure for all types of brain tumours. Help fund the fight. Together we will find a cure.