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.
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..
ReplyDeleteC'mon JS don't be a bitch all yer life .. her did well
ReplyDeleteyes, but that would have been going for the obvious...i like the obscure...
ReplyDeleteTrue, lol , forgot about that
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