00:00I was able to be there every week, watching games on the Saturday,
00:06turning up on the Sundays to train the girls.
00:08So rugby was, you know, central to everything in terms of giving me
00:15a solid, happy platform in which you can survive these things
00:24or prolong the pessimistic diagnosis that you get in the first place.
00:32Well, thank you for joining us, Stuart.
00:33And I suppose my first question is, where did this all start?
00:36I know you've done a similar walk in previous years.
00:39Tell us about that and where we are now and why this year is different.
00:45OK, so last year's walk was on the 19th of October,
00:50which was about four months after I was diagnosed with a brain tumour,
01:01a terminal brain tumour called a glioblastoma.
01:05So I started being treated for that and being in remarkable health
01:11and having had lots of help from the brain tumour charity,
01:17I thought in between treatments I would organise a walk to raise money
01:24for the brain tumour charity.
01:26So we did that in November, October, sorry,
01:31and 50 of us walked along the medway from Maidstone to Tunbridge Jullions Rugby Club
01:39to deliver the match ball and we raised £18,000 during that walk.
01:49So fast forward a year, I'm still in remarkable health,
01:56although the diagnosis was 12 to 18 months.
01:59So I opened my phone one morning to see the reports of Lewis Moody
02:12and his diagnosis with MND and I watched his recording on the BBC
02:18and it reduced me to tears.
02:22It just took me straight back to where I was just over a year ago,
02:29you know, perplexed and not really understanding what was happening to me.
02:36And I saw, you know, I saw me in him.
02:40I saw the human being struggling to come to terms with what he's been told.
02:45And I just was moved to recreate the walk.
02:52It was almost to the day, a year since the last one,
02:56so it seemed appropriate.
02:58I know Lewis Moody is a supporter of the brain tumour charity as well,
03:03so kind of a quid pro quo.
03:07I'll raise some money for research into the cures for MND.
03:13I chose My Name's Doddy Foundation and we set off on a walk, same walk.
03:21Fewer people because it was short notice,
03:25but 35 to 40 of us did the walk and ended up at the same place,
03:31the rubber glove, to do a speech to them, you know,
03:36regarding MND and my condition.
03:38I see.
03:40And tell us a bit about what was said in that speech
03:43and how was the walk in general?
03:44I mean, quite a distance.
03:46Tell us about that.
03:48Yeah, the distance is about 16 and a half, 17 miles.
03:53The walk was fine.
03:54I mean, when you get a group of like-minded people with you,
03:59walk's very easy.
04:00It sounds daunting,
04:01but you just plod on and in no time at all,
04:06the time flies and you're there.
04:08And you stay in touch today,
04:08so that you don't need to get it out.
04:09And I know you do y'all know,
04:10the way you virtually don't行 to England.
04:11So now you have anyone right now with you here.
04:13It must tell you it to worry about how to do a friend or you
04:15do a friend or children or
04:17you do a friend or a grown others or you know.
04:18I've had enough at this time,
04:18to do a super
04:27nothing and I can't glaube.
04:28So grab your friends
04:29and hopefully like- blown others.
04:30Yeah,
04:30well,
04:31I'll take a break.
04:32Next time you're subscribed toë³´
04:34what's going to be?
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