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Heather Tudway

Heather's Race for Life

Total raised

£205.00

+ £46.25 Gift Aid

102%% Complete
102% of the £200.00 target
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Folkestone 5k 2018

Sun 10 Jun 2018

I'm taking part in Race for Life to raise money to beat cancer sooner for all those fighting

In memory of

Richard Humphrey

My Story

Hello all as most of you know I have fought my own cancer journey . Long and hard and I was 1 of the lucky 1s my diagnosis was in 2013 Hodgekins lymphoma originally stage 2a I stared chemotherapy locally in Kent at 1st it was a success after 6 rounds we were told I was clear ! yay .... little did we know how aggressive it actually was within 8 weeks I had relapsed the doctor tried 2 more different chemos and relapsed both times then tried a new drug which failed . Things got very scary I was transferred to London and the process of stem cell transplant started . They tried to harvest my own at 1st but failed in the chair as they found out it had spread and I was now stage 4 and it was in my bone marrow . Being a mum to a 4 and 7 year old at this point as you can imagine I feared the worst. Luckily the charity Anthony Nolan were given my details and blood and within just 4 weeks I had a phone call to come to London and they had found me a 100% match from an annoymous donor amazing ! And so the process began in sep 2015 I was admitted and a lot of bumps along the way a few scares an intensive care admition. Flooded lungs with 50% damage to both . I have fought my hardest today I am much stronger and so so lucky to be alive . Thanks to amazing support from my family and uclh London and Mcmillan and my children and close friends I’m here and still fighting another day 💪 I am running for myself and a dear family friend who sadly passed away from burkitts lyphoma his name is Richard humphrey I will be thinking off him and his mum when I run . And to all the other survivors and fighters and the 1s who aren’t with us anymore your all amazing

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