Kilimanjaro Walk for Overcome in memory of Sara Foster
In October 2026 me and Rod Bond one of my oldest school friends and best man at mine and Sara ‘s wedding in 2004 will be climbing Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. I thought it about time I did something for this charity so close to my heart.SARA’S STORY
My beautiful wife Sara first got diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2017. In May 2017 she had started to feel bloated and tired and in the June had blood tests and was sent urgently for an ultrasound . Over the next few weeks her stomach became bloated with Ascites and she had over 7 litres of fluid removed from her stomach. On the 31st of July 2017 Sara had a full hysterectomy and a tumour the size of a football removed. Five weeks later her first round of chemo began. Her beautiful dark red hair began to fall out so she shaved it off to match me before the second round. In January 2018 after six rounds of chemo treatment was completed, a few weeks later a scan was done and Sara was given the all clear.
Sara got involved with Overcome and did a charity catwalk at the Mayfair hotel in London . The Touch of Teal in March 2019 and raised Thousands with 12 other ovarian cancer survivors .It was an amazing day and made me and everyone feel so proud of her being out of her comfort zone.
Ovarian cancer is sadly probably the hardest cancer to diagnose and stop from recurring which is why I want to help support the cause today . Since her diagnosis Sara had read a lot about Cancers and tried to understand why her , why anyone ? She was convinced it was due to hormones, sadly no one truly knows.
In the middle of 2019 Sara’s blood markers were raised and again she faced more treatment. Chemotherapy being the standard treatment after recurrence. This time she decided to have surgery first to debulk the masses, this was only offered by two places in London to prolong the reoccurrence time. So in August 2019 the surgery was done in West London which took 4 hrs to remove the cancers but her bowel needed to be re sectioned in 3 places. She had a lot of scar tissue from the initial operation. Recovery was slow her scar took a long time to heal, twice she got sepsis and was back in hospital. Over the next few months she struggled to eat much . The bowel never recovered properly as there was so much scarring. Then towards the end the only option was tube feeding which didn’t work. Sara wasn’t well enough to even have any Chemotherapy. By the December she had had enough and didn’t want anymore treatment. Sara passed away on the 10th of January 2020, the most perfect person I have ever known, she was a beautiful daughter,mother,auntie and friend .xxx
