Quality of life

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Hi everyone,

As Christmas approaches some of us will look at giving gifts to charity, with this in mind I am turing to you,
I was on an Aer Lingus flight about six months ago. During the flight the attendants made an announcement saying that they were going to collect change for the charity of the month, that charity was the Laura Lynn foundation.
I'd never heard of the Laura Lynn foundation but what I heard moved me greatly. The foundation was set up in memory of two daughters of the McKenna family, Laura and Lynn who died tragically within two years of each other. Laura was born with a hole in her heart and died just 4 years old, in her short life she had endured two serious operations, six months in hospital and sadly did not survive her third and final heart repair operation.
Lynn was 13 when she was diagnosed as having Leukaemia, it was on the day that little Laura passed away.
I gave what little money I had on me but as I left the plane and walked down the steps the story stayed with me, and with it a growing certainty that I had to give more, do more. It struck me as scandalous that there is not even a single children’s hospice in the whole of Ireland. This despite there being over 1,400 children with life limiting and life threatening conditions, such as cerebral palsy, profound brain damage, meningitis, HIV and cancer each year and over 354 children's deaths a year in Ireland. Yet there is nowhere for these children to spend their last days except in a hospital surrounded by busy staff in a clinical environment often with no where for their parents to stay. The LauraLynn Foundation was set up in 2001 to build and run Irelands first children’s hospice.
So at seventeen and a half stone and not having run in years I looked about for a significant challenge. I was certain that I would be able to do a Marathon and also wanted to do something extreme that would be a true challenge. I have been training now for seven months, now weight 14.8 Stone and have run three marathons in the last five weeks, in the next ten weeks I will run 480 miles.
On the 26th May I will be running the Namibia 24 hour Ultra Marathon; three back to back marathons in 24 hours, self supporting across the Namib desert. The heat will be up to 46 degrees during the day and down to 0 degrees at night.

http://www.lauralynnhospice.com/about_us.html

If you'd like to sponsor me please follow the link below, You can make a difference to families across Ireland, Please help if you can.

http://mycharity.ie/event/jamile/

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Thanks to the person who has anonymously sponsored me.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca