Nass MS & London to Brighton Cycle Ride Sunday June 16th

June 02, 2013

Nass MS & London to Brighton Cycle Ride Sunday June 16th

Good afternoon

from

Arundel Eccentrics Antiques

This is Nass, my lovely husband.

Did I ever tell you how I met him?

Nass came to England to go to school.

A boy of 11.

His parents thought it might calm him down. LOL

The sad thing was

due to the problems

that erupted

in his own country

he was unable to return.

It was 20 years before he saw any of his family again.

By the time I met him, Nass was my son

Jay's,rather gorgeous

sports master

and I was in the middle of a divorce.

Ha Ha,

so the benefits of being on the PTA

were for me long term.

Best thing I ever signed up for.

The PTA that is.

Nass

Nass is not one to build himself up.... so I am going to do it for him.

My husband is amazing.
But don't tell him I told you.

A couple of years ago he was diagnosed with MS.

We were both shell shocked.

For some while we didn't talk about it.

The Elephant was most definitely in the room

When we did eventually deal with discussing it, his reaction was;

" I'm not taking this lying down, I'm going to fight it."

Oh Ohhhhh.

What's he up to?

What did he do?

He signed up for the Brighton Marathon and ran it for

The Chestnut Tree Hospice
just outside of Arundel,

raising money for sick and terminally ill children.

The amazing thing was after only 6 training sessions

and around the same in training miles,

Nass damaged his leg.

He thought if he went out again and aggravated

it he wouldn't be any good on the day.

So he didn't train anymore.

But run it he did and not only that, slowed himself

down by running with someone who was on the

brink of giving up, so they both came through the finishing line together.

yeah yeah...I know, she's pretty...well he needed SOME encouragement.

I breathed a sigh of relief.

His doctors breathed a sigh of relief.

All his friends breathed a sigh of relief.

Oh no......you can't keep that Nassie down.

Now he is about to do the London to Brighton Cycle Ride.

Its on Sunday June 16th

The training regime has been much
the same as the marathon.

It would be great if you could support Nass

with one of the charities he is raising money for.

The Chestnut Tree Hospice

"Chestnut Tree House is the only children's
hospice in Sussex and cares for
280 children and young adults
from 0-25 years of age with progressive
life-limiting conditions from
Sussex and South East Hampshire.

Completed in 2003, the hospice
provides a 'home from home'
environment with 10 children's bedrooms
plus eight family rooms,
a wet and dry play area,
computer and music rooms,
a multi sensory room and hydrotherapy pool.
The house is set in beautiful gardens
within an area of outstanding natural beauty.

There are potentially 1,000 families with
life-limited children in Sussex.
Chestnut Tree House offers support for the whole family
including psychological and bereavement support,
end of life and short break care and sibling support.

The hospice costs almost £3 million per year to run.

Families are never charged for their care and less than

8p in every pound is funded by the government,
so they rely heavily on the generosity,

help and support of the people of Sussex."

The British Heart Foundation

The Brain Tumour Charity

We have several friends who have been

struck down by this terrible disease
or who have very sadly

lost a child to it.

One friend who went through it

and fortunately came

out the other side,

told me,