Morag Alexander 10 Races for Ross' 10 yr anniversary
10 Race challenge.
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Ross
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Morag Alexander
This year in October Ross will celebrate his Bone Marrow Transplant 10yr anniversary.
In January I decided to set myself a challenge to run 10 events to raise funds for the Bubble Foundation (the charity who support Ward 3, The Transplant unit) at the Great North Children’s Hospital. I’ve completed 9/10 races, across the country in areas covered by NHS Highland, NHS Grampian and Newcastle Health Trust, where Ross received most of his care.
The final run in October is a 50k trail course, from Brodie castle to Inverness castle with my running buddies who have supported me over the years.
Ross was born with an ileal atresia requiring a bowel resection operation at only a few days old, his recovery from this was incredibly slow and wasn’t able to leave hospital.
9 months spent in Aberdeen undergoing endless tests and scopes revealed he had autoimmune enteropathy and was transferred to the GNCH in Newcastle where the decision was made to list him for stem cell transplant. He spent a year as an inpatient in Newcastle, and eventually we travelled home in 2017 after nearly 2 years of hospital care.
The Bubble Foundation provided Ross and myself with an overwhelming and endless amount of support, whilst we negotiated a life changing treatment, allowing Ross to become the hero we know today.
This is my way of saying thank you ❤️
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Ross was born with an ileal atresia requiring a bowel resection operation
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This year in October Ross will celebrate his Bone Marrow Transplant 10yr anniversary.
In January I decided to set myself a challenge to run 10 events to raise funds for the Bubble Foundation (the charity who support Ward 3, The Transplant unit) at the Great North Children’s Hospital. I’ve completed 9/10 races, across the country in areas covered by NHS Highland, NHS Grampian and Newcastle Health Trust, where Ross received most of his care.
The final run in October is a 50k trail course, from Brodie castle to Inverness castle with my running buddies who have supported me over the years.
Ross was born with an ileal atresia requiring a bowel resection operation at only a few days old, his recovery from this was incredibly slow and wasn’t able to leave hospital.
9 months spent in Aberdeen undergoing endless tests and scopes revealed he had autoimmune enteropathy and was transferred to the GNCH in Newcastle where the decision was made to list him for stem cell transplant. He spent a year as an inpatient in Newcastle, and eventually we travelled home in 2017 after nearly 2 years of hospital care.
Seeing people run the Great North Run in Sept 2016, a month before we headed upstairs to Ward 3, I told myself that one day I will come and give it a try. 10 years later and 1000’s of miles on my legs, the GNR will be my penultimate race in this challenge.
In January when planning out the events, I did not expect to overcome some brutal setbacks along the way. Snowed out and unable to reach the start line of one, and in May whilst competing in Race to the Base on the west coast of Scotland (number 5) fell heavily on my knee and didn’t think I would make the finish. But remembering why I was doing all of this, and seeing Ross never give in when his challenges tested his resilience over the years, focused my priority, and got me through.
To all of the children we met on our journey, our neighbours in the bubble, from near and far, this is for you. We will never forget the overwhelming and endless support we received from the bubble foundation. The support to Ross and myself made negotiating the most difficult life changing treatment survivable.
This is my way of saying thank you xx