Hello everyone,

Well, here we are, saying something I thought I’d never say, I am running the London Marathon 2025. Just to clarify incase it wasn’t glaringly obvious, I am not a runner, so this is going to be a lot of hard work.

More importantly I am so proud to say I will be doing this to raise money for Compton Care.

This charity is one that is so incredibly important to me.

30th March 2013 will always be a date that’s etched in my memory forever. My beautiful and brave Mum, who fought an incredibly tough battle with Myeloma, passed away at Compton Hospice.

For those of you that don’t know, Myeloma, sometimes known as Multiple Myeloma is a cancer that that develops from plasma cells in the bone marrow. It is an incurable cancer.

Upon diagnosis my Mums life expectancy was 5 years and of course she out lived that, she was always one to prove you wrong.

This wasn’t my Mums first rodeo, she’d been diagnosed (16 years prior) with ovarian cancer, which was only discovered because she had a pulmonary embolism! She battled that, had the all clear only to develop Myeloma years later. She went through a lot more health complications too, more than one person should have to deal with in a lifetime. The bravest and most incredible human I’ve ever met.

My Mum was a nurse, it was all she ever wanted to do and she was a great one at that. She was working as a nurse only 4 months before she passed away. Which was typical her, putting everyone else before herself.

After lots and lots of time in hospital over the years with Myeloma, operations, blood transfusions, stem cell transplants, trial drugs, the day came that the doctors said ‘there’s nothing else we can do.’

The decision was made to transfer my Mum from hospital to Compton Care.

We arrived at Compton Hospice, in a room that over looked a beautiful garden, which was a stark difference from the hospital room she had spent months in.

Even in those painful circumstances, I felt at peace there knowing how much genuine care and comfort my Mum was receiving. The staff that work there provide a different level of care and support for the patient and their families. Everything was met with patience, dignity and kindness.

Compton Care provides specialist palliative and bereavement support to over 2500 families living across Wolverhampton, The Black Country, South Staffs and East Shropshire.

All services are free of charge and they can only continue to do this with donations. It costs £10million to run their clinical and support services, 60% of which is funded by local community support.

My wonderful, strong, hilarious, Yorkshire lass of a Mum, would have loved to hang onto one more day of her life, she wanted nothing more than to live, so I’m trying to live it for the both of us and push myself out my comfort zone more. Please dig deep and help me reach my target for this truly amazing charity.

Thank you SO much 🌼