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Merry Christmas 2025!
ByPeterThis year marked 15 years since our very first visit to St George’s Hospital with Father Christmas, a tradition we have been proud to continue every year since, apart from the Covid period which brought its own virtual adventures! Once again, it was a truly special day, bringing festive cheer, smiles, and a little bit…
Darren’s Iron Man
ByPeterDarren Bowler, one of our trustees was once known as “the fat controller”. Amazingly, he is doing an incredible iron man event in Switzerland in a couple of weeks. It involves a 3.8k swim (in the lake with 2500 others) , 180km cycle (through the Alps) and finally he has to run a full marathon….
Happy New Year
ByPeterClaudia took Christian into the Marsden for his 3 monthly check up today. He had a chest x-ray, a leg x-ray, and an abdominal ultrasound. The chest and tummy are fine and we should get the result of the leg x-ray in a couple of days. The leg x-ray was done at the last moment,…
Christian Blandford Fund – GDPR
ByPeterIf your inbox is anything like ours, it’s recently been filled with emails asking you to read new privacy policies or asking permission to email you. This is because of a new European privacy law called the General Data Protection Regulation (or GDPR), which comes into effect on May 25. While this is an EU…
The Bone Biopsy
ByPeterChristian had the bone biopsy today, it all went fine and they got a good sample. We will not get the results until next week so the Hickman line insertion is going to wait until then. He was in pretty good form all day, the biopsy was quite intrusive so he’ll be a bit sore…
Sam Tanner – Bournemouth half marathon
ByPeterSam is Christian’s Aunty and is running a half Marathon at Bournemouth marathon festival for the Christian Blandford Fund. Here she is with Christian the day after he was born. Like all the members of our large family, Sam was very supportive through Christian’s illness and we are very grateful that on top of that…
