Courage and sheer determination - and a pack of oxygen - are carrying a woman with debilitating lung disease round the London Marathon course. Lynne Ashton's lungs were damaged in a fire at her home in Huntingdon, Cambs, on Christmas Day six years ago.On Tuesday she passed London Bridge - halfway round the 26.2-mile course which she aims to complete on Thursday.
Mrs Ashton, 45, took up the five miles a day challenge to draw attention to the plight of people with lung disease. Her lungs were damaged when a candle set light to a plastic table cloth and she inhaled the fumes.
She cannot go anywhere without a portable oxygen pack, which she is pushing round the course on a trolley.
"It is a big but very worthwhile challenge - if I manage to complete what I want to do," she said.
"Six years ago I didn't have a very good prognosis but I feel I am doing fairly well now and I wanted to do something to raise the profile of lung disease and the British Lung Foundation."
She is hoping to raise £5,000. The London Marathon started at 9am on Sunday.
4 comments:
and there she is ladies and gentlemen..she has passed the finish line...congradulaions.....er..mamm? mamm? call 911 call 911. the bitch is dead..
C'mon JS don't be a bitch all yer life .. her did well
yes, but that would have been going for the obvious...i like the obscure...
True, lol , forgot about that
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