I am due to walk 100km continuously along the Jurassic Coast on 18 May 2024.

On 9th February 2024, while travelling to go on holiday, my partner, Vicky, started experiencing stroke symptoms. She had word finding difficulties, slurred speech and the left side of her face drooped, once we arrived at the local hospital, within seconds of arrival, she had several tonic-clonic seizures which was extremely frightening for Casper, Marley (our children) and I. I felt extremely lucky that she was surrounded by medics during this scary event.

Vicky was whisked through the emergency department, and within 4 hours of arriving at hospital, we were told the breaking news that Vicky had a brain tumour and that we couldn't continue on our holiday.

Weeks later, during a pre-op consultation, when we thought the news couldn't get any worse, we would find out that the tumour was thought to be cancerous.

Vicky has bossed this ordeal throughout, including managing to have a 4 hour awake-craniotomy on 20th March. This removed most of the high grade tumour, however the surgeons were unable to get the whole tumour as it was 'diffuse' and Vicky's speech and cognition would have been significantly impaired if they tried to remove anymore.

During a post-op consultation, we were advised that the biopsy had come back confirming that VIcky had a Grade 4 Brain Cancer called Glioblastoma. This made all of the nightmares that I had been experiencing a reality. This cancer has a prognosis of 12-18 months, with around 1% of patients living for over 10 years.

Following a second biopsy, results have returned as ithe tumour being a high grade brain cancer called Astrocytoma, with a biomarker of IDH-mutant. This cancer has a better prognosis than Glioblastoma, however remains life-limiting and Vicky will require intensive chemoradiotherapy treatment over the coming weeks, months and years to prolong her life.

It has therefore made complete sense to look at fundraising towards a charity whose help pages I have been on since day 1, and whose mission could not be any closer to what Vicky, I and our families are currently experiencing.

This will be a total challenge as walking 100km (62 miles) in one go is no mean feat, and even with the appropriate training, would have been mentally and physically draining. Due to the above ordeal, I have been unable to train, so it will be additionally tough.

I am lucky enough to be supported by 2 of my colleagues in completing this challenge, and the challenge is likely to be a 'last man standing', however we are aiming at completing hiking the distance in under 30 hours.

This challenge has been paid for in full, and therefore all monies raised will go directly to The Brain Tumour Charity.

Any and all monies are gratefully received and would mean the world to us!

Thank you for all of your support and kind wishes. It has been overwhelming at times to see how many people have been thinking of us! <3

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