Amy’s Army takes on the Great Wall of China

On 28th February 2020, I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer, I couldn’t believe it, I was only 30 years old. It completely turned my world upside down and I felt like I was thrown into a world I knew very little about. After an MRI scan, Full body CT scan & what felt like 5 million biopsies they were confident my cancer hadn’t spread past my lymph nodes and a plan was put into place.


I will go into more detail throughout March to help keep my fundraiser relevant but my plan consisted of surgery, 18 weeks of chemotherapy and 15 sessions of radiotherapy. I will continue to have targeted therapy until the middle of this year and I will be on some kind of hormone therapy for 10 years, hello hot flashes


From the 1st March Amy’s Army will be walking the length of the Great Wall of China, that’s 21,196 KM!!! Most people will know that I lived and worked in China for two years and god can only tell you how many times I went to that bloody wall when people came over to visit It was totally worth it for the toboggan though So we need as many people as we can onboard to reach our target!


I have decided that all the money raised will go directly to the Rosmere Chemotherapy Unit at Royal Preston Hospital. This is where I had all my chemotherapy and continue to have targeted treatment for the next 3 years. It’s somewhere that I have spent a lot of time at this past year and I cannot shout enough how wonderful all the nurses and other members of staff there are. In a time during covid where I, and every other cancer patient have had to face cancer treatment alone, it is the nurses that have been there to reassure me So I think it’s such a worthy cause.

Please, if you can spare a donation, no matter how small, I will be so grateful. It will help keep everyone motivated throughout March to get those steps in and smash our target!! 

Thank you,

Amy xx