Lbs for £ !

UPDATE

Huge congratulation to Julie and Jackie on finishing their sponsored weight loss challenge! Well done girls for loosing 11lbs between you, while gaining funds for our charity. We are extremely grateful to you and your sponsors for raising £504 to support our work.

Now enjoy re-discovering the contents of your wardrobes!

New twist on fundraising challenges by two dedicated sisters!

Lbs-Pounds for £-Pounds !!!

Julie Brooks and her sister have a Dad with MDS – and want to help MDS UK.
Read up on the great plan they have devised to fundraise and how Julie is also overcoming a long-standing phobia of needles.
They are planning to do a sponsored weight loss – and have promised some before and after photos.
Well done to both of them – and we wish them loads of success.
We look forward to hear about progress.

Use their Virgin Money Giving link to donate or make a pledge for each Lb lost?

http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/julesandjacksmdsslimatthon

Julie also has a sponsor form at work.
Here is her story – in her own words on Virgin Money Giving:

“Hi thank you for taking the time to visit our page.

We are sisters and apart from sharing the same parents we also have in common we are both serial yo-yo dieters.
Well we have a wardrobe full of clothes brand newish waiting patiently to be fitted into so we thought why don’t we raise a few pounds by dropping a few pounds once and for all.

We are aiming to lose 14 lbs ie a clothes size in 8 weeks and raise money for MDS UK at the same time??

MDS is a form of pre-leukaemia which our dad has got.
There is no cure at the moment for generally anyone over the age of 60.
Up to that age there’s chemo available and/or a bone marrow transplant but dad’s not a young youth, and at 75 it’s looking like he will be blood transfusion dependant for the foreseeable future.
At the moment he’s not doing too bad but in november he was admitted into hospital with pneumonia and it was a very shaky 2 weeks on oxygen, blood and platelet transfusions, pumping water and anti-biotics into him.
Some sort of miracle happened and he was able to go home but we honestly have no idea how long these transfusions will carry on working so we are wanting to raise funds and awareness of this illness.

I was probably born with a phobia of needles, I came out crying at the very thought, but after spending hours at hospital with my mum and dad watching him receiving pints and pints of blood I decided to take the “brave” decision of becoming a blood donor.
Only 2 pints up to yet, I fainted on my 2nd one but they brought me round with lots of chocolate biscuits, every cloud….
We are both members at Weightwatchers Kirkby in Ashfield, Notts and our leader will be keeping a close eye on us so we can’t afford to slip up.

I have spent hours and hours on worldwide forums looking for a wonder cure for MDS but it’s always the “wrong kind”, there’s lots of different types so I guess I will leave it to the experts and do a bit of fund-raising to help them towards finding a cure.

The MDS UK Patient Support Group are doing an absolute fantastic job and always on the end of the phone for an ear bend or three so I would like on behalf of my family and our friends to say a big thank you for their tireless work and support and hope to donate big to them for their work.

If you have gotten to the bottom of this blog thank you too and please help us to help them to help MDS sufferers throughout the UK.”

Thank you so much for these kind words Julie – and for your great challenge.
Please also know that every pint of blood you donate helps someone immensely – and that donors like you keep patients alive and able to do so much more!

Please spread the word – and maybe even consider becoming a stem cell donor!?