On 29th April 2014, I release my first post entitled “What’s it all about” i.e. why on earth am I writing a blog!
It was simple in those days, I just wanted your money 🙂 I was fundraising as many diagnosed cancer patients and their supporters frequently do. In my own case, I was fundraising for my local NET charity who were raising money to support NET patients in various ways. Their latest challenge at that time was getting access to intraoperatrive radiotherapy machine (IORT), something that could help ‘blast’ small cells and tumours in places near to the ‘operative bed’ and would help to cytoreduce (debulk) the disease and reduce the need for other therapy downsteam. A good cause, so I walked 84 miles with my wife Chris asking people to donate. My blog was the platform for this walk. I eventually raised over £4000.
However, I also used the walk to function as a turning point in my health and life challenges at the time. I selected a challenge already on my “to do list” and had been for over 10 years festering in a drawer. I had recently retired and after an entire lifetime of working (where most days were challenging!), I was looking forward to taking up new challanges at my own pace (no pun intended). Read about the Hadrian’s Wall challenge by clicking here or on the picture below.
The blog turned out to be very successful and after many people suggsted I keep writing, I cracked on and here we are today! I now have almost 2.5 million views, won three awards, and the blog has expanded to include 3 Facebook pages, 3 X (formerly twitter) accounts and the biggest Facebook support group in the world. If you are a part of any of the above, then technically you are also an award winner – my first award was for “Best Community”. The others were “Best Blog” (after 3 finals – very tough competition) and “Lifetime Achievement”. The latter was interesting as I was just getting started 🙂 As a Brit, winning 3 USA based awards was like being the blog equivalent of the Beatles, The Rolling Stones and David Bowie (…… well, kinda!)
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When I kicked off my blog to support the 84 mile walk along Hadrian’s Wall, my wife Chris immediately said she wouldn’t do it with me. She also insisted we do some training (she normally knows best!) and so she also walked around four times that length when I add up all the training walks we did. Not only has been watching and listening to me battering the keyboard for the last 10 years, she’s also appeared in quite a few of my blogs, something always appreciated by the readers, particularly on my Facebook Page “Ronny Allan“
My right-hand woman – Chris – Ronny Allan – Living with Neuroendocrine Cancer
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