Our MND walk!!

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Well my loves, what a morning!! First though I'm listening to Mike Dignam - Beautiful Tragedy, I think I have mentioned this song in a previous blog, I'm not totally sure but it's a very strong, beautiful song I love it. Why not listen to this song while reading this blog? 

I'm happy, I'm full of pride and overwhelmed with emotion to be honest. Today I took part in my first ever charity walk, I took part in the Humber Bridge MND walk. Myself, Rob, my work colleagues Sue, Audrey and Shell, Audrey's brother in law Andy, their friend Ed and Shell's daughter Keeley all got together this morning to do this walk. 

I saw on Facebook that this event was happening around 2/3 weeks ago and automatically decided I needed to do it and when I shared the event to my friends I never expected anyone to want to join me, so for my work friends and their family members to want to do this with us really made me happy. I never knew what to expect or what to do but I'm so glad that I never backed out of doing it.

When we got to the car park (we all arrived at different times) we got ourselves registered and received a little goody bag of biscuits and a MND t-shirt (I had to find a way of changing my top with no one seeing my wobbly bits, how embarrassing!!) the top may have been a tad snug but I wore it with immense PRIDE. My friends bought a balloon for us to release for my dad which we wrote a little note on. I was a bit shocked at how I felt when I saw a couple of people there in wheelchairs with equipment to help them breathe, I found myself feeling very emotional and sad for two reasons 1, because they are fighting this awful disease and don't deserve too and 2, because my dad hasn't got to that stage yet and it was a glimpse into what the future may bring for my dad. That's quite hard to realise sometimes. 

There we all are just before we set off :)

There were so many people it was amazing! I even met two lovely girlies who I have as friends on Facebook, if you are reading this, I'm sorry we didn't manage to have a chat, hopefully one day we can. 

I thought I would be quite puffed out and knackered doing the walk because it's quite a long way from one side to the other and then back again and I'm certainly not the most fittest or active person in the world but having great chit chat and laughter really made the time fly by (my legs are very tired now though) and the view from the Humber Bridge is pretty amazing. 

My dad wanted to join us on the walk today but I thought it was a little too far for him to walk and there was some time waiting around which I know he wouldn't have liked. I think as time is passing by his legs are now getting more affected, which I knew would always be a possibility but I've always hoped it wouldn't affect his legs, time will tell...

I loved that so many people got together to do this walk, all strangers but all connected. Lets all do this again next year :) 

Thank you friends for joining me today, not only to raise more awareness but for being a strong support network for me during this hard time in my life. I'm just about holding it together because of all of you and I thank you for that.

Much love
Beth xx

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