My Story

I’ve never had a life plan, but getting an aggressive type of breast cancer age 39 wasn’t a part of life I knew existed. Stuff like that doesn’t happen to me.

But it didn’t just happen to me. It landed like a bomb in our family, ripping everything apart with the ripples reaching far beyond us.

We got through chemo, through surgery and radiotherapy, I ran a half marathon and then finished active treatment. . Discharged from oncology. But what now?

Life after cancer is uncertain and scary. You exist with one foot in the past and one in the future. A version of you exists in both worlds and you are forever looking back to try and work out what happened.

Breast Cancer Now has helped me and so many women come to terms with their diagnoses and their lives now. I want to raise money to help continue their important research and the support they provide as more people are diagnosed daily.

For everyone facing a breast cancer diagnosis, this isn’t all you are and all you’ll be.

Running continues to help me through hard days. Because I've learned what a privilege it is to be well enough to run a marathon. 

Thank you so much for all your support, it really means the world to me.