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Virgin London Marathon - Human Interest 2010 Ian Baker Oxford Ian’s daughter Zara was diagnosed with cancer of the eye when she was three and a half. Her cancer type was extremely rare so even their eye doctor friend didn’t think anything was wrong with her. Everything happened really fast but they first started to suspect something was wrong when only one of Zara’s eyes had red eye in a family photograph. Zara was in hospital within 48 hours of suspecting something was wrong and she had her eye removed that day. Ian is a consultant clinical neuropsychologist, his wife Susannah is a clinical psychologist. They both work at the John Rudcliffe hospital nr Oxford. Both are used to seeing cancerous tumours and giving the bad news but not being on the receiving end of it. Ian has five children, Zara is the youngest of these and she has one full brother Rory. Rory, seven, was scared he would catch the cancer, like it was a cold. Both Ian and Susannah had a tough time calming him and being careful with giving presents to zara as Rory was very jealous of the attention they were all giving Zara. Ian has run the Abbingdon marathon and has raised £1800 at a charity wine tasting. Zara’ survival prognosis is excellent. She has a Perspex eye but you can’t really tell at all. Their friends and family have been incredible supportive. CLIC Sargent were there every step of the way. Clic Sargent Shaun Michael Donnellan Sheffied, South Yorkshire 38274 Gary, 39, was homeless for many years and was in and out of trouble with the police. He became affiliated with Crisis due to his past experiences and is keen to support their emotional services. Crisis
Virgin London Marathon - Human Interest 2010 Sharon Mogg Bridgend, Wales 28775 40 year old Sharon who is mum to 12 year old Keelan with Cystic Fibrosis won the Virgin Money Giving competition to ‘Run with Richard’ so she is very much looking forward to running her first marathon. Her son Keelan suffers with the digestive side of Cystic Fibrosis very badly, yet was still able to take part in a sponsored swim for charity. This inspired Sharon to sign up for the marathon and she hopes to raise £2,000 to fund research into Cystic Fibrosis. Cystic Fibrosis Trust Sally Woolgar South London 38404 30 year old Sally Woolgar had a life-saving double lung transplant aged 21 after waiting 5 long years for organs to become available. She is getting ready to run her first Virgin London Marathon, which will be an extra special achievement for her as ten years ago she could hardly walk let alone run. Cystic Fibrosis Trust Alan Williams Plymouth 28774 31 year old Alan is running an incredible 31 races for the CF Trust this year with the aim of raising £31,000. Until very recently, the average life expectancy for someone born with CF was 31. The races include the Virgin London Marathon, Tokyo Marathon, Great North Run and he will be covering 500 miles in the races alone. I have attached an article on him for more info and his website is www.run31.org.uk twitter http://twitter.com/alanw_run31 Cystic Fibrosis Trust Yoko Sellek Guildford 39631 Yoko is running as part of a team of five for the Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity. Pippa Moorin, Chris Burrows, Adrian Woodman and Ian Wilkes are part of Yoko's, 53, team. Yoko and her team will be running in memory of her son, Akio who died at GOSH last year at the age of 16. He suffered from systemic vasculitic inflammation and pulmonary fibrosis and died as a result of pneumothrorax. GOSH
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