Abby's Walk 100 Miles Challenge Giving Page

My Story

My Dad was the strongest man who fought such a long & hard battle that he didn’t deserve but he continued with a smile on his face & faced every challenge with the most positive & fighting attitude he could. I couldn’t be prouder of him & feel like the luckiest girl in the world to call him my dad. There are no words to describe the relationship I had with dad other than he was my best friend, we were inseparable and there wasn’t a day that went by that we didn’t see each other. I’m so lucky to have the memories I have and without the research that goes into cancer research my dad may never had survived cancer when he first was diagnosed with lymphoma at 16, being one of the first patients in the UK to undergo chemotherapy. In 2019 after a week skiing my dad developed a pain in his shoulder, believing hed just pulled a muscle he went to the doctors just to be sure, Only to find out his treatment from all them years ago had made the cancer return but into his lung. After a successful operation and several rounds of chemotherapy My dad was given the all clear. Fast forward to 2021 and the cancer returned and after every possible form of treatment available including chemotherapy, radiotherapy and immune therapy his body just couldn’t take anymore and in November 2021 with myself and my sister beside him he fell to sleep ❤️ The day before my dad found out there was nothing else that could be done to save him he said to me he just wanted to see Lottie on her first day of school and it broke my heart to think this was never going to happen, but she will grow up to learn all about her “gangan” and what an amazing man he was ❤️ If raising money for cancer research can make one grandads wish to see their grandkids grow up then I’ll do anything I can to help make these dreams come true. Myself, my sister and our children were my dads absolute world, there was nothing he loved more than us, anyone who knew my dad would agree he was the best dad and grandad and he devoted his entire life to us from the moment we was born. Without this amazing charity I may never have had the time I did and created the memories I did with my best friend, my dad 💙 “ free to ski down the clouds and paint a few stars along the way”