March for Men
Rachel Rodgers
Clinical Animal Behaviourist at Nose To Trail Founder of The Canine School of Trailing Head of Training for Napo.
Some of you may know I have written a fair few JustGiving pages in my time and a few of you may even have been kind enough to donate only recently to my Great North Swim page which raised money for the RSPCA.
Usually I give information about the charity I am fundraising for, so you can see why it’s worth you parting with your money. This time the challenge is a little different for me and certainly the hardest I’ve had to write about.
Earlier this year I went up to Lancaster to visit my family for a little break, but things didn’t go according to plan. I’ll save you the long story but after a fairly horrific few days we found out that my amazing father didn’t just have a bad back, but he had a tumour pressing on his spine. The cause of this tumour? Prostate Cancer.
It’s safe to say none of us ever for one minute considered this could be the cause of dad’s bad back. Like many we assumed the more obvious causes, maybe a slipped disc or over doing it gardening in his retirement.
That’s why, although I want to raise money to help Prostate Cancer UK do their amazing work, a large part of what I am aiming for with this event and training is to simply raise awareness of the little man badge, and encourage you all to get the men in your life to go and get tested.
The earlier prostate cancer is found the better. It doesn’t have to be the embarrassing physical examination you may be thinking of, it can be identified by a blood test now. So please encourage the men in your life to go to their GP or go to a free PSA testing event in your local area.
If you are able to donate, thank you! Together we can hopefully ease the battle for men around the country. My JustGiving page can be found here:
https://www.justgiving.com/RunningRodgers?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=fundraisingpage&utm_content=RunningRodgers&utm_campaign=pfp-tweet&utm_term=Dd4y3mgP5
A huge thank you in advance has to go Kerrianne for supporting me with this event and no doubt dragging me over the various obstacles we will encounter across the 10 mile run!