Raising funds for Cornwall Hospice Care

Hi there,

My name is Ben Davey, and I am taking part in the Chris Hoy Charity Tour de 4 (57mile/92km bike ride) on Sunday the 7th September in Glasgow alongside my Dad Peter Davey and our friend Lorna Murray.

The Friday before Christmas 2024 my Dad called me to say he was struggling with his breathing, and that he needed an ambulance.

After getting him to hospital and having several tests and scans done straight away, the results lead to them finding a large amount of fluid on his lungs. During the week he was in hospital they took 4.5 litres of fluid off of his lungs. Thankfully, we managed to get him home within a week and got to celebrate the new year together having missed Christmas.

Throughout January, we were going back and forth to the hospital for further testing and scans to try and figure out what was the cause behind all of this. After a long time waiting, we got an answer we weren’t expecting. Mesothelioma Lung Cancer, which they believe was caused by asbestos which he had been exposed too years previously throughout his working life.

I am taking part in this charity race to support my Dad throughout his Cancer journey, he has always been there and supported me, as I will for him through everything that is to come from this illness. We also sadly lost my Dads partner Jules on the 1st of November 2024 to an aggressive form of lung cancer and we are both doing this in memory and to honour her.

Cornwall Hospice Care has always been a very important and big part of the community and to us personally for some of our family members we have also lost. It is an amazing charity that relies on the generosity of the public for donations to keep the hospice going.

If you can please help in anyway, either with a kind donation or just sharing the page via social media to help raise awareness for the charity, anything and everything will be greatly appreciated and make such a difference to so many people’s lives not only now but also in the future.

Thank you in advance for reading this and supporting us both throughout our journey x