I think most are familiar with the fact that about 13 years ago my wife, Joy had breast cancer and that last year was diagnosed that it had returned ... with the inevitable prognosis for secondary cancers ......
Anyway, the status at present is that she is responding well to treatment and for the time being, the tumour is shrinking.
She's about to embark on another bit of fund-raising for breast cancer research and in a fortnight's time will be doing the MoonWalk.
Despite the name, she assures me she will not be mooning
but, along with 15,000 other participants will be walking a half-marathon at night in her bra!...... just like this (random picture from a previous year's event)
The fact that she is able to do this is quite remarkable as her tumour surrounded one of her airways and essentially stopped a lung from working (that's how we found there was something wrong with her).
A few months ago she was struggling to walk up a slight incline yet now she's about to walk 13 miles. We got over the psychological hurdle of walking that distance on Saturday when I took her for a 10 mile practice ..... she coped well with that (but is aching like mad today).
Anyway, without sponsors, a sponsored charity walk is just a walk so we're letting our friends know so that they can sponsor if they wish to do so (but we only want them to if they can afford it and want to do it).
So if anyone on here wants to support her efforts, her sponsorship page can be found here: I have noticed that some of her friends have sponsored her most generously - don't feel that what some people have sponsored online is some sort of "going rate" - it really isn't.
I am her "support team" and will be rushing round cheering her on, handing her energy bars and taking embarrassing pictures.
