Welcome to my fundraising page for CoppaFeel!

This September I'm setting out on a challenging, extraordinary and life-changing trek, all in the name of checking chests! Along with Gi Fletcher and some other famous faces, I will embark on a life changing trek across 5 days along the Great Wall of China, in a bid to raise funds towards CoppaFeel's life-saving mission.

I know that early detection can save lives - it saved mine!

I was diagnosed in 2021 with invasive Breast Cancer, at the end of Covid and with a pub to reopen. As I told my surgeon, it was a massive inconvenience.

I had a single mastectomy with immediate reconstruction, i was on the table for 10.5hours. But during the operation my surgeon found another tumor bringing the total to 3. I had no signs of lumps just a swelling that wasn't my normal.

Chemotherapy then followed, a gruelling 6.5 months of treatment, losing my hair, my eyebrows, eyelashes and having to get my husband to help me carry the Christmas shopping bags. (The damsel-in-distress look didnt sit well with me!) Radiotherapy followed and in March 2022 I finished active treatment.

I was lucky enough to get a place on the CoppaFeel! Sahara trek in the November 2022 and training for that spurred me into recovery.

4 years later, I've just had my final reconstruction operation in March and I will be celebrating 5 years free from cancer in May and what better way to celebrate than to trek again.

I'm lucky enough to be able to self-fund the trek so this means all of your generous donations will go directly to CoppaFeel!

They are on a mission to stamp out the late diagnosis of breast cancer by making sure that young people are regularly checking their boobs, pecs and chests and getting to know their bodies in order to have the confidence to see their GP if something just doesn't feel normal.

Thanks so much for your donation & support. To find out more about CoppaFeel! head to www.coppafeel.org.

And remember..... Check Your Chests!

Much love

Michelle xx