What Oliver means to me
I have always wanted to cycle an End to End but like everything something needs to happen to spark me into doing something so this time it was pumping marvellous who rekindled the idea, then my best friend Phil said he would do it with me so I got the spark I needed.
So then comes the reason, as a personal ambition I was always going to do this but I accept my heart failure journey raises awareness so much so involving the 2 charities that have been so much part of this journey was a given.
But I needed something more, something that during the hard parts would make me realise how lucky I am to be able to attempt this & something to start the intense training. It didn’t take me long to find my reason.
I 1st came across Oliver when we were looking for stories for Pumping Marvellous video advent calendar. I had spoken to his mum briefly before so I was aware of his story. His mum Andrea quickly agreed and supplied a video that touched the heart. Since christmas I followed this families story as they overcome issue after issue, andrea sends me videos of Oliver trying to stand or playing with his brother and I see the difference every time as he develops.
So I love the wee mans bravery to keep fighting along with his family looking to the future positively, at times I feel down but I remember Oliver and i know that I am lucky to have lived to see family grow and have holidays and memories with them so would love to raise enough to see what options I can offer this wonderful wee lad and family who inspire me.
Oliver’s story is on my facebook page and I have asked Andrea to post some times to highlight the wee lads fight and continuing fighting spirit
Link to his facepage is
https://www.facebook.com/OliversHypoplasticLeftHeartSyndrome
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