Breast Friends
This May I will have been cancer free for 10 years - thanks to the Royal Marsden Hospital.
To celebrate, I'm walking 15 miles on the Banham Marsden March. I'll be stepping out with some amazing friends who were there for me when I was going through it all - our team is called Breast Friends.
The Royal Marsden isn't just a hospital with incredible medical teams and carers, it's also a world-leading cancer centre with researchers that develop life-saving treatments.
So I think it's really worth supporting.
Thank you for any donations!
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I'm not ready - but I'm doing it anway
Saturday 9th May Tomorrow I'll be walking with some amazing friends Siwan Lloyd Hayward Sarah Dain Andrea Marsh and Alison NoorThank you so much to everyone who has donated so far.
I'm afraid I'm totally unprepared for a 15 mile trek. I did something to my Achilles tendon last week and so had to take it easy this week.
In a way it's quite appropriate that I'm not ready though. No one is ever ready for cancer. It always happens to someone else - until it is you.
Sometimes I think it's harder for those who have to deal with the fallout. Weirdly when it's happening to you - it's your cancer and you kind of accept it. You go to the treatment sessions. You do as much a you can to get better, but somehow you come to terms with whatever the future might be.
For family, partners and friends it's almost worse. They feel helpless, lost and stressed. It's hard to talk about. It's hard to imagine the future.
I'm very glad I'm still here but I can't help feeling guilty occasionally as I have friends and family that didn't make it.
And some who are still going through it all.
This year the The Royal Marsden NHS celebrates 175years of life changing care and ground breaking treatment for cancer patients.
It changed the life of myself and my Mum in different ways. I also found out it was the only research facility in the world that could identify a rare cancer that another friend had.
So I think it is really worth supporting.
If you'd still like to donate it would spur me on as I think I may well struggle to get to the end. Share
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Bharadia
Well done Maddy!!! Love Dev and Tom xxx
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Go girl!!
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Rory Neighbour
Darling Mady, we’re so proud of you. What a way to celebrate this milestone. With lots of love from Rory, Bea and Pepper xxx xxx xxx
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Great cause. Good luck! X
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Three weeks! Go go go!
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All the best Maddy! Big hugs
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Go for it. Well done you xxx
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