Breast cancer survivor’s 100km Sahara trek celebrates ‘getting to live’

A bosom crab subsister is to trek 100km (62 miles) crossed the Sahara godforsaken to people 10 years since she was fixed the all-clear.

Jackie Scully, 42, from Greenwich, southbound London, volition acceptable disconnected crossed the North African terrain connected Saturday successful representation of her person who died from the aforesaid illness.

The selling enforcement has raised implicit £150,000 implicit the past decennary by taking connected a bid of challenges, including climbing 24 peaks successful 48 hours successful the Lake District.

Mrs Scully besides broke a Guinness World Record astatine the London Marathon successful April for the fastest marathon clip successful a 10-person costume, portion successful July, she and 120 radical ran 10km from antithetic locations astir the country.

Her five-day trek crossed the Sahara successful Morocco volition rise funds for Breast Cancer Now, NHS Charities Together and the Willow Foundation, organisations which supported her passim her attraction and recovery.

“The Sahara godforsaken is each astir a person of excavation – we were diagnosed the aforesaid week with a precise akin diagnosis of bosom cancer,” Mrs Scully told the PA quality agency.

“We were the aforesaid age, and we recovered each different done attraction clip and we did tons of fundraising together.

“We were of a precise akin property with akin stories. She was re-diagnosed with bosom cancer. I got to unrecorded and she died.

“One of the past things she did earlier she was re-diagnosed was she trekked the Sahara desert.”

Mrs Scully was archetypal diagnosed with bosom crab successful 2015, astatine the property of 32, which resulted successful having her close bosom removed and undergoing a tummy tuck procedure.

She besides had her pelvis rebuilt successful 2007, astatine the property of 24 owed to having hep dysplasia.

“I’m benignant of bionic, due to the fact that I’ve been benignant of rebuilt from the near broadside up the close side,” she said.

“But it’s everything that has happened to me, each my scars, the information I don’t adjacent person a nipple connected my close side, nary of that matters.

“What matters is that I got my assemblage backmost – I get to live, and I get to unrecorded successful the astir spectacular mode by going retired into the mediate of nowhere, into landscapes that galore radical volition ne'er spot and get to stock that acquisition with truly large friends.”

For this upcoming situation Mrs Scully volition person to vie with a antithetic climate, uneven crushed and adust conditions.

“It’s going to beryllium a existent situation for my hip, arsenic I unrecorded successful beauteous overmuch changeless pain,” she said.

“Because of the mode that my legs are built, I find it precise hard to locomotion connected uneven ground.

“This situation for maine is simply a superb mode of closing the past decennary and showing to myself that you tin spell an atrocious agelong mode with the close radical by your side.”

To find retired more, sojourn Mrs Scully’s fundraising leafage here: justgiving.com/team/100kourway