It was Sunday Morning, I was soaked through but I DID IT!!! I walked 10 miles for the Sue Ryder Care Charity, Not only did I do it but I did it in 3 hours.
My Friend and I decided we would do this ages ago and Hey what is ten miles when you are walking, not like we are going to run it!!!
We chose to do this not only for the above statement but Sue Ryder is a very good cause and almost everyone knows someone who has needed their help. They are carers/nurses and doctors who care for terminally ill patients.
There are now 17 Care Centres in the UK — 6 hospices and 11 neurological centres. There is also a growing Homecare service. The charity also provides support to 30 projects in 11 countries in Europe and Malawi. The charity needs to raise £13million (pounds sterling) each year to supplement its statutory income to continue providing care and this is raised from fundraising and through Sue Ryder Care Shops, of which there are around 400 in the UK. What I did not expect was to fall ill, not sure many do, but in January I was taken to A&E with severe chest pain that went right through me. I vaguely remember telling the Paramedic " I've had 3 kids I know what pain is and THIS HURTS!!!!" After the 30 min drive in the ambulance on gas and air I was still in pain i told the consultant that it was like having a permanent contraction in my chest that does not ease. I then vaguely hear the words Morphine that was it I woke up hours later in the ward sore and drowsy..I has been scanned and checked and I had Gall Stones, they had moved and blocked one of my tubes thus causing the pain. I then spent 3 I must say rather relaxing days in hospital, i was then told I would need my gall bladder taken out but not now but don't know when they will send a letter......great nothing like being able to plan, we already had our holiday booked but luckily we managed to have that first( will blog that later)
So My opp was sent for the 14th of April, which was about 3 weeks before the walk, it was day surgery and keyhole so i decided to try and do the midnight walk if all went well, which it did. It took about a week for the scars to stop hurting ( so much for keyHOLE I had 5 holes in various places from my bellybutton to between my bust and 3 on my side)I did stay in a night which i was not meant to but they gave me morphine again so i was good for nothing so I stayed in.
The next week was just building myself up again so I was very lucky and recovered quite quickly.
Sorry had to put them on.
these are my gall stones, I filled 1 1/2 of these.
Right where were we......
Standing in Serpentine Green Tescos car park at 23:45 on a Saturday night, in a sea of a thousand flashing bunny ears we begin a worm up to the sound of Black eyed Peas- I've got a feeling....by the time she had finished I was ready to go home not start a 10 mile walk.
10. 9.8.7.6.5 the Count down began
4.3.2.1 WE WERE OFF
12:00
and then came the rain, ooh well what did we expect it is England after all. but it was nice and quite refreshing, the temp was not cold and there was no wind so not too bad. I had given our self 4 hours, I had done no training i am not the fittest person and had recently had said opp so off we set at a nice steady pace as the mad power walkers sped past us.
I wont go in to detail about the walk (if you have me as a friend on face book i kept a running commentary on there not that many people were up to read it at that time) so we kept a nice steady pace and chatted and laughed at some of the things people were wearing( " It's all for Charity mate!")
so when a Marshal said "well done ladies you are halfway we very surprised to see it was 1:22, so on we plodded until another marshal said 3 miles to go!!! that's when the aches and pains started so set in and we realised we must have subconsciously sped up, the thought of home to great...
so we slowed down and tried to ease our aches with the slow pace
Now if i ever see the next Marshal again not sure what I'll do, I'm sure he lied...1 MILE TO GO!!!! How can one mile seem twice as long as what we have just walked, we both ached, was going through not the most picturesque part of Peterborough we started to loose the will. I lost count how many times i said I think it is just round this next bend, I'm surprised my Friend did not just tell me to shut up.... But then there it was The big light in the sky that was TESCO, We had made it 3:00 Wow that was good, I was soaked, cold and very shaky but was VERY glad I had done it.
As we stumbled across the Finnish line, and was handed our Medal, goody bag and shown where the hot drinks and pastries were I think i could have curled up and gone to sleep there and then. I felt like I had been on a pub crawl not a walk, my hand shook that much I could not even stir my coffee,i could not face the food, put that in the bag for brunch!! we decided not to sit and relax we better get home before we seized up, we still had the 20 min drive home (thanks Carey for Driving)..
Apart from a blister on one foot I feel quite good, still a bit stiff getting out of bed but very surprised at how well I feel and will most defiantly be doing next year!!!
