Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.  I am running the virgin money London marathon in 2017 in support of Birmingham Children's Hospital charity. By accepting a charity place I have a fundraising target of £2,500 and I have many planned events to help to raise this target.

Many  thanks to the following for their support so far,

Stourbridge football club

West Midlands Safari Park 

JJDL leisure Ltd

Kev from the Murmur

Dudley Zoo

LINC Medical

Blue Box Medical Supplies

Jenny's Kitchen (wall heath)

Cakes by Sian

Dunham McCarthy

Sainsburys

BCH Bus fare Club

Waitrose

Pepsico

I am a specialist nurse on the renal unit and have worked with chronically ill children for the last 16 years helping them with the management of their long term conditions with dialysis, to the  facilitation of receiving a kidney transplant. I love my job and it is so rewarding to help these children whose lives are affected so much, and to be able to make a difference to the quality of life these children endure on a daily basis.

Your donation would be gratefully acknowledged and will make a very real difference to children and families across the UK facing the most difficult circumstances imaginable. 

Running the London marathon has been a long life ambition of mine since the age of 15 years old. I'm now 36 and closer to reaching my dream and I can't be  more honored to be doing  it for the children and families I work with. 

The training is going well although I have sustained a few injuries. Completing the Birmingham half marathon  was a massive buzz for me and I decided very quickly that I wanted to do London 2017 with a BCH vest on .

I have ran the Warwickshire half marathon , the pretty muddy and the great north run. All good training. I have now recently reached my first 20 mile non stop run. I have also given up drinking for the past 7 months in preparation for Sunday 23rd April 2017.

Looking after ourselves is now a big part of our lives after I was genetically diagnosed with FH 24 months ago. FH is a genetic cholesterol condition Familial hypercholesterolaemia which untreated can lead to early heart disease.  My son Jack who is only 7 yrs old has now been diagnosed with the condition too. One of our proudest moments was us both running the 5k Santa Jog together. Jack was amazing! We are a very positive family and thank our lucky stars that genetic tests are available. There are many health conditions which are far worse then mine and Jacks and we will do everything we can to help families and children who are more unfortunate then ourselves.

Thanks for all your support it means the world to me. This journey has been incredible and this is a last push to raise as much money as i can for a wonderful hospital Birmingham Children's Hospital.

Massive thanks to everyone xxxxxx

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