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So you're running the London Marathon today. How do you feel firstly
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I'm so nervous but really excited for it. I feel like all my training is to this moment so I'm really excited
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And what charity are you running for? I'm running for the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity
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And what led you to run for them? I am a patient at the Royal Marsden. I'm on a clinical trial for melanoma skin cancer so I felt like it was really important to kind of give back to them
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and I want people to have the same opportunities that I've had being on a trial
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because it really is saving my life and I just feel like I want to give back so more people have this opportunity
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I'm trying to think of a way to kind of... What's kind of your experience and your story
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My story is I was diagnosed with cancer four years ago. I got the all-clear two years ago, but I relapsed
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I now have an inoperable tumour in my groin which can't be operated on
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So now I'm with the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity, no, I'm with the Royal Marsden
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on a clinical trial to hopefully shrink the tumour and to become cancer free But it a really long journey and the trial is fantastic but it a long process so I still going I got another year of treatment to go and then hopefully it will turn
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around I'll be cancer free and how's it gone fundraising for the charity how much support
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have you got I've had so much support everyone's been amazing so good I've raised 3,700 so far
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and it's been so everyone's so lovely everyone has given so much money and I honestly has given
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me a boost to carry on to run. What are you most kind of excited or afraid for
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Oh 26 miles. I'm afraid. I am so excited to be doing this because it's a once in a
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lifetime. The crowds are amazing and the buzz is phenomenal so hopefully that will
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get me through but I am really really scared. What do you hope people who might
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see this and hear your story will do or it will encourage? I just hope it lets
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people know that you can do anything you put your mind to it because I am still on treatment I'm still having immunotherapy every six weeks and I just
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feel like if I can train for a marathon and run for a marathon whilst on treatment then you can do anything you put your mind to and I hope that really
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makes people think that they can do something and it's for such a good cause as well
