London marathon

[Guardsman68]

Hello friends, hope you are all as well as can be.

I would like to say a massive thank you to group of runners running in the London marathon for Ataxia uk my son in law Ben Smyth is in that group Ben has raised so much awareness and money in the last year and is a huge supporter of Ataxia uk.

Ben himself has overcome adversity as he had a motorcycle accident at 17 and broke his back in six places he was in a full body brace for 18 months and a wheelchair for 2 years so he sort of gets the struggles I’m in every day and all ataxia sufferers.

Good luck to all the runners stay safe

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Lee

[wobblybee]

👍 Good Luck Ben…thank you 🙂

[Guardsman68 in reply to wobblybee]

Hi all an update on Ben who’s doing the marathon he’s finished and is well. A fantastic achievement i and all his family are so proud of him up to date ben has raised for ataxia uk £1751 and still rising. Thank you everyone

Stay safe all

NO SURRENDER 💂🏻‍♂️

Lee

[wobblybee in reply to Guardsman68]

👍👏🥳

[penelope2]

👍👏 Well done Ben. Let's hope that someone somewhere has been made aware of ataxia.

[Bearbonny]

well done to your son in law and all the others making ataxia more aware to people my son has cerabeller ataxia so many people have not heard about ataxia so a big thank you to who run well done

[PatsyIpswich]

Thanks for sharing and ditto from me x

[paul456]

Well done to Ben that is a great achievement especially after a very bad injury.

All respect to the lad 👍🏻

[Libra7]

what an uplifting story of triumph over adversity. Thank you Ben 🏃🏻👏🏻😀

[Trinity1948]

I think you congratulated our granddaughter Emma when she ran the Sheffield half marathon at the end of March ? Now it’s my turn, well done Ben for raising a wonderful amount of money for Ataxia,it couldn’t have been easy for you. Unfortunately,we didn’t follow much of the Marathon this year as my husband of 91,previously in good health,suffered a stroke last Sunday,so that is why I am late with my congratulations.He is making good progress but he had been my unpaid carer.Jeanette.

[Guardsman68 in reply to Trinity1948]

Hello Jeanette thank you for that Ben did us proud as did Emma. I’m sorry to hear about your husband’s stroke I hope he’s doing better. You all take care and be safe my best wishes.

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Lee