Jessica is waiting for a double lung transplant and has been for four years, receiving 8 false alarms. She is currently on Oxygen 24 hours a day and She decided, with just 11% lung function she would do the 5k addidas challenge in Hyde Park! Jess can only breathe in the amount of air in a can of coke, yet she wanted to walk 200m out of every Kilometere and thus walking 1 whole Kilometere! I am so pleased to say she did it, and as ever had a smile on her face!
Click here to see a video of Jess's Challenge and details of how to sponsor her.
Louise has had a single lung transplant and she decided she also wanted to take on a challenge and raise funds for LLTGL although she is post transplant she is suffering severe complications, including a form of post transplant cancer and heart failure. Lou decided she would hug a tree for 2 hours continuously, this doesn't sound much, but Lou finds walking difficult so standing for 2 hours was a huge physical and mental challange, but she did it!
Click here to sponsor Louise.
Lou and Jess are such an inspiration, they are brave, corageous and fabulous young ladies and I am totally in awe of their acheivements!
Congratulations girlies, you rock muchly :)
Whilst on the subject of Live Life Then Give Life, I just want to wish them luck for tonight, it is the Charity Times Awards and they have been nominate for best new charity!
Fingers, toes and everything crossed that they win. They do a fabulous job in raising awareness of Organ Donation, supporting people on the waiting list and ultimately saving lives.
I am so pleased and proud that I am part of such an amazing charity and team! Having kidney failure is pretty rubbish, I'm not going to lie, but if it hadn't have happened I wouldn't have met half the people I have today. People that I can now call friends. I am part of a club that no-one really wants to be apart of... but I'm so pleased I am... and I'm never going to leave :)
Congratulations Jess and Lou, what great acheivements :D Inspirational!
ReplyDeleteGood luck to LLTGL for tonight, am keeping my fingers crossed.
Moll x x
Oh I totally love this post hun not just because of the 'big up' but because like you said...we are a special lil team and like you, i never will leave beacuse LLTGL has given me so so much! Can't believe the great news...hope those guys saved some celebratory drinks for us?!!! Lol! xxxxx
ReplyDeleteI hope so too Lou! x
ReplyDeleteThat's a gorgeous post hon - and please don't forget that YOU (and all the other advocates) are an integral part of LLTGL...and a large part of the reason we won!
ReplyDeleteSo thank you for all your hard work. We do rock rather don't we ;)
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