by Lisa | Sep 5, 2023 | Bright Red Hero's
I was an inpatient in Ward 33 at Freeman Hospital for almost 5 months in 2020/21. I had Aplastic Anaemia and required 2 stem cell transplants, the second of which saved my life. Being in hospital for such a long time was hard. Even more so because I was a long way...
by Lisa | Sep 4, 2023 | Bright Red Hero's
Over Christmas of 2019 I noticed something wasn’t right. I was 26 and as a personal trainer and boxing coach I kept myself very fit and active, engaged to my then fiancé we were planning our wedding the following year in Santorini. We talked about starting a family...
by Lisa | Sep 2, 2023 | Bright Red Hero's
I received a bone marrow transplant on Ward 33 in the Freeman Hospital during January 2019. I wanted to find a way of saying “thankyou” for the magnificent care that I received from all the staff and wished to support the continuing work in research and diagnosis for...
by Lisa | Sep 1, 2023 | Bright Red Hero's
In 2015 I was diagnosed with Myelodysplasia, MDS. in 2020, Prime COVID time, the MDS transposed into Acute Myeloid leukemia. I was admitted to ward 33 at the Freeman hospital in early October 2020. I had three lots of CPX chemotherapy to kill off the leukemia cells,...
by admin | Jul 13, 2022 | Bright Red Hero's
From the day he was born, Ross Sanderson was ‘a joy’. His mum, Julie, says that he was not only ‘friendly and popular, caring and polite’ – he was also ‘never shy in giving his view on things!’ Ross sadly passed away on New Year’s Eve 2019 -at just thirty...
by admin | Jun 23, 2022 | Bright Red Hero's
Am I going to die? “It is not curable, but is very much treatable. We often find that with some treatments, you can live a further 10 years.” I’m now half way. For most people September 11th will rightly be the day people remember the attacks on the twin towers in...
