Elanor’s Story
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We all know that Cancer is a common disease but despite that you never expect it knocking at your own front door. So when Mum was recalled after her first routine mammogram we thought it’ll be a shadow, or talcum powder, or a thumbprint on the negative! We certainly didn’t expect the diagnosis of Breast Cancer and the two operations that followed.
I don’t need to go into detail about the upset and the fear that goes with this kind of diagnosis in your family. Those who have been there know, and if you haven’t I hope you never have to… trust me, it’s utterly horrible.
We were so, so lucky. Mum had amazing care and, though it felt like forever, was comparatively quickly given the all clear. I’m painfully aware that not everyone is so fortunate. When something like this happens, you find yourself looking for ways to help the people, the organisations, the whatever that helped you and the people you care about so when Mum announced she was planning to do the Moonwalk in 2008 I said I’d walk with her.
Walking a marathon through London half naked in the middle of the night may seem like a strange way to celebrate life but what the hell, why not! That’s how I see this walk, a Celebration and perhaps also as a gesture of solidarity with those who have been through it too, and most especially for those who can’t walk it with the people they lost to Cancer. I am so grateful not to be doing this walk alone.
All the money that we raise will go via “Walk the Walk” to Cancer research and hopefully go someway towards preventing other families experiencing what we, and too many others, have experienced.
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