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I'm jogging one mile a day for Dementia UK
This April, I’m jogging/shuffling one mile a day for Dementia UK and I’d be so grateful for your support.
Dementia UK is a specialist dementia nursing charity and has these brilliant Admiral Nurses – they’re on the end of a phone and one of them helped get me out of a hole on a particularly difficult day. £8 covers the telephone costs for two families seeking support through the free helpline. £33 funds an Admiral Nurse spending an hour helping a family in the community.
My family, like sadly too many, lives with the impacts of dementia every day and has done for over three years. That’s when my lovely mum, pictured two years ago on a good day, was diagnosed with mixed dementia – that’s vascular and Alzheimer’s Disease.
When mum was diagnosed, we had no idea what lay ahead: the heart-breaking decision to move her to residential care, the falls and injuries she’d suffer, her physical deterioration so that today she’s “non-verbal”, unable to move and utterly reliant on carers – and the destruction of her intellect and cognitive faculties. “Does she know who you are?” many ask me. I honestly don’t know.
So, if you are able, please support my fundraiser. It feels like the only way I can fight back against this dreadful disease. I’ll post my jogs everyday on this page – and on Strava.
Thank you!
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My Updates
30/30! Thank you!
Wednesday 30th Apr
Potsdam potter
Friday 11th Apr
Day 6 - slow Sunday
Sunday 6th Apr
Day 4 completed:)
Friday 4th Apr
Day 3 :)
Thursday 3rd Apr
Lovely Leeds at lunchtime
Wednesday 2nd Apr
Run 1 done!
Tuesday 1st Apr
Thank you to my Sponsors
£50
Heather & James
£50
Vanessa & Simon
Best of luck Ros, it’s an amazing cause and we’ll be supporting you virtually mile by mile. Love Vanessa & Simon xx
£50
Caren
Amazing effort!! Can't believe you did it 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations Super Woman 💪🏼♥️💪🏼♥️💪🏼
£50
Anonymous
£50
Will Ballard
A worthy cause! keep going as the month is reaching its end and you are almost there!
£50
Anonymous
You Go Girl!Love Lesley
£50
Aunty Marion And Uncle David
£50
Richard Dawson
£50
Ann Scott
Good luck with your running
£50
Edwina Simpson
Brilliant Ros, thinking of you and your mum x
£50
Julie Arscott
With love from all in Scarborough xx
£33
Heather
Good luck Ros, a great cause. I know the effects that dementia and Alzheimer's can have on people, their families and carers. Wishing you and your mum the very best.
£33
Ros Dawson
£33
Anonymous
£33
Rachel Maclean
Brilliant to support your Mum and so many with dementia xx
£33
Liz Lowe
Go Ros! Your mum is proud of you - this is a brilliant thing to do! Keep going! Lots of love xx
£33
James Reed
£33
Claire Hart
£25
Kathryn
Well done Ros and God bless Auntie Dorothy.
£20
Andrea
Fab effort Ros well done you.
£20
Katie Livesey
A brilliant effort for a great cause. Well done.
£20
Jane Coulson
£20
Chris Blackwood
Well done Ros.
£20
Ewan Mcculloch
£20
Jessica Wilson
£20
Anonymous
Keep going Ros, such a good cause
£20
Louise Hill-ord
Smashing it Ros, keep going!
£20
Gabby And Andy Xxx
Go Ros!!
£20
Juliet Sadeghian
Good luck
£20
Amy
Well done Ros on your great effort for a very worthy cause.
£10
Ann Sedivy
Good work Ros !
£10
Ellie Dawson
£10
Paul Birch
You can do it Ros!
£10
Craig
£10
Lauren
Good luck, amazing work and a very worthy cause. Not long to go...
£10
Sarah Arthur
Go Ros!
£10
James Hutchinson
Well done, Ros!
£8
Lindsay Wallwork
Good work Ros, sounds so hard for you with your mum xx
£5
Sarah White
Well done Ros
£5
Holly Owens
Go Ros! You are incredibly strong, best of luck!
We hope the sun shines on you every day, and the springtime sights and sounds are uplifting as you run xxx