I was first injured on the 22nd of September 2022, I had an incomplete spinal cord lesion with inflammation across my spine centered around my T9 vertebrae. Within 24 hours of me first noticing a numbness in my feet, I had become a paraplegic, with no bodily function below my diaphragm. Treatment started immediately in the intensive care unit of the PRUH at Hayward Heath, which was closely followed by 5 months of physiotherapy.

My journey has been long and hard with really low lows but even higher highs also, and for me, when the moment comes that I finish the London Marathon, that is the moment that I will close the door behind me and leave this chapter of my life as a thing of the past. All the physio sessions, countless doctors appointments and the runs (so many runs), have all led to this race and I intend on throwing the kitchen sink at it.

I am running for the SIA and my new family of people with Spinal Cord Injuries, all 50,000 of us. It was in the NSIC in Stoke Mandeville hospital where I first met this family as well as first came across the Spinal Injuries Association. My three months there were the most inspiring three months of my life and to this day it feeds my drive to improve my physical health. They teach you that movement is medicine and that having a disability doesn't mark the end of your life, but only the start of a new one.

https://www.nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-conditions/brain-nerves-and-spinal-cord/transverse-myelitis