Hi My name is Neil

I was Diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer in November last year.

At a very frightening time I looked for some positives and found so many people in a similar situation as myself.

Particularly Chris Hoy who had a similar diagnosis and has set up a fund raiser to increase awareness and medical advances and fund charities that support this aim.

His fund raiser is called Tour de 4 so named because his Diagnosis of Stage 4 Cancer and his obvious high level achievements in the world of competitive cycle racing..

His aim is to show the world his positive attitude by making a positive statement about his determination to keep going in as normal a way as possible during his terminal destiny.

He has therefore set himself a cycling challenge later in the year to cycle between Edinburgh and and Glasgow to illustrate what can be achieved in the later stages of his stage 4 diagnosis'

I am not much of a cyclist, but I am a dog owner and I am trying to raise funds to go to the same charities as Tour de 4.

I aim to achieve my goals by continuing to walk my dog as long as I possibly can to emphasise my determination to keep my remaining life as normal as possible. Sadly though there are two dogs on my Fundraiser, Quinn my beloved Weimaraner x Labrador died recently from having such a big heart,

Dogs are such a huge part of many people’s lives and show such unconditional love, support and sensitivity during good times and bad I thought I would add to my beneficiaries a donation to Dogs trust from where I got Quinn and Rafferty by continuing to walk Rafferty . In memory of Quinn and also to raise awareness of Prostate cancer, stage 4 diagnosis with a positive determination to keep at least this part of my life s normal as possible. I also aim to contact as many dog owners to similarly get sponsored to assist me with raising as much as possible for all the charities that support the awareness and research of treatment o Prostate cancer so that future generations have a better survival chance from this widespread diagnosis.

Please help me achieve my goal of raising £100000 for MacMillan, The Christie Cancer research UK and prostate cancer uk and other charities being supported by Chris Hoy. In addition to the dogs trust to honour the enormous support our dogs give their owners during mental or physical illness

Thank you for your support to help rid us of this quiet killer disease through awareness and research and the unending love our dogs give owners.

Neil