Mile by mile for Keira

On the 3rd of July 2020 when my daughter was only 8 weeks old we took her for her first vaccination. 3 hours later our world was turned upside down. Our GP was worried about Keira and phoned the Bristol children’s hospital. We were called and told to take her directly and quickly to A&E, they did a CT scan and found a brain tumour the size of a tennis ball. We had no idea she was ill. 

She has very little chance of surviving the cancer but she’s fighting hard. As Keira’s mummy I wanted to do something to help all the amazing charities that have helped her and us as a family. I never knew what support was out there or that so much support was even needed. The idea of childhood cancer was one I’d never even entertain. Knowing now what I know, It’s so important every family going through this gets the help and support they need. 

So I’ve set myself a challenge to walk, run, cycle or swim a mile for each and everything my little girl has gone through and continues to go through. We are collecting beads of courage for her. Each bead is for something Keira has had to go through in her battle. Each bead will equal a mile for me to complete. For me this will be a challenge. I can’t swim, I can’t ride a bike and I have my own health battles with a chronic heart problem which makes running very very difficult. 

I want to raise money doing this for each and every charity that has helped us. My aim is to raise £5,000 per charity.  I’m sure this list will grow but so far this list is as follows  : 

The grand appeal
The south west children’s hospice 
Clic Sargent 
Macmillan cancer 
Beads of courage 
Dexters Odyssey 
Molly Olly - Olly the brave 

I’ll be posting my progress over on Instagram. Look for mile_by_mile_4_Keira

Thank you so much for taking the time to read this and for any donation, no matter how small. We can’t stop cancer but we can make this journey a little bit easier for families when it happens.