Random Acts Of Kindness

This evening, I've reached - and now passed - my original fundraising target of £2,000.

Throughout last night and this morning, my fundraising whipped smartly through the £1,950 mark thanks to some lovely colleagues, whom I've never met but have conversed with both socially and professionally via a professional website, Doctors.net.

This evening, the £2,000 target was smashed by someone I've never met, but had contact with through the AUK message boards.

And then, a few minutes later, another person took the fundraising well beyond the target. I've never met this person and was, indeed, unaware of their existence. I've never had contact from them before and may never again.

I'm extremely awed and touched by all of this activity on my fundraising page over the past 24 hours. I'm moved by the fact that so many people, who have never met me, are so prepared to give me such support.

Asthma is funny like that. It's a phenomenon probably shared by other illnesses, but there's something about Asthma. Maybe it's the whole not-being-able-to-breathe thing. Unless you've experienced it, you can't really know what it's like. We can do our best to try to show you, by pinching your nose and making you breathe through a straw, but we can easily release your nose and let the straw drop. If only aborting an asthma attack were so simple.

Just looking over my sponsor forms & JustGiving, I've had 78 donations. My M-I-L has another two sponsor forms, but I'll have to discount them cos I ain't got 'em here. Of those 78 donations, a massive 38 have come from people I have either never met, or met only very briefly in "real life". That's just awesome - literally.

The internet has been hailed as both a blessing and a curse - but for now, I have to call it a blessing, for enabling me to get the word out about my marathon so widely, and for allowing me to "meet" some truely amazing people.

Thank you all so much.