My Channel Swim

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Well I made a start today! I’m really proud of myself, after speaking to my doctor he advice me to take it slow, don’t lift my head up and stick to breast stroke, it should start to help my back, so off I went with my advice thinking il just do my best! I gets in the water and I’m confronted by 3 old women (I felt like I was back at school and I’d sat in a year 11s seat) so they set off 2 walking and one swimming backwards and I still couldn’t catch them up! When I first got in, it was full length swimming split into 3 section FAST MEDIUM SLOW so I chose slow with the 3 women in, I did 8 full lengths of 25 meters before the pool was split in half (not good for my maths) then squeeze 8 half lengths in, I was in a bit of pain so didn’t want to push much more out of me, it’s early days.

I’m really hoping this helps me 🤞🏻

And I hope I can help others too, please sponsor me, it means a lot xx

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Not the best start!

My Daughters been ill also had an accident and ended up going to A&E at the beginning of the week, then my backs been playing up so decided to rest it, but fingers crossed I’m going tomorrow, my bag is packed, IM READY!!

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I'm taking on the Aspire Channel Swim 2019, swimming the distance of the English Channel over 12 weeks to raise money for Aspire. Every four hours someone is paralysed by Spinal Cord Injury and Aspire provides the essential equipment, advice and housing that spinal cord injured people need to live their lives independently. This is a big challenge, but the more I raise, the more of a difference I'll make, so please be generous!

My story

I’m not doing this for sympathy! I’m doing it to help raise awareness, Any type of spinal injury affects people in so many ways and the daily struggles with normal day life is so hard

Over a year ago on the 25th June I gave birth to my beautiful Daughter through emergency C-section 6 months later doing an ordinary daily task of getting dressed I experienced severe pains down both my legs and could not bare weight, having been rushed to hospital and had several tests no diagnosis was given, every day is a struggle now and it effects me more than physically as I never know when it’s going to happen again (I’m not saying it’s spinal I’m just saying I can relate slightly)

So I’m hoping this challenge will help me mentally and physically and bring awareness to others

And mostly raise lots of money for a great cause

Please sponsor me and help me on my new challenge

Thank you