In the early hours of July 5th, 2024, Oxford resident James Lawton and his two friends, Tim and Al, will embark on a unique cycling journey. Starting at 1:30 am from Oxford, they will ride to the Royal Free Hospital in London, retracing the exact timeline of James’s call for a life-saving liver transplant two years ago. The trio aims to arrive by 11:00 am, coinciding with the time James was taken to the operating theatre.
Special thanks to Kieron Dyer for wishing James, Tim and Al good luck with this incredible challenge.
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so it’s nearly two years since my liver transplant and I’ve decided to start a research project when you get called for transplant the NHS provide Hospital transport to take you in my case from my home here in Oxford down to London to the raw free hospital for the operation the question I have and that this research is going to attempt to answer is could the NHS save a watch of cash by getting endstage liver disease patients to cycle themselves to the hospital for their transplant rather than providing transport let’s find out So the plan is on the 5th of July which is the 2-year anniversary of my transplant I’m going to get up at 1:30 in the morning which is the time that I got the call to go for transplant cycle 95 km down to the RO free hospital and try and see if I can get there for 11:00 a.m. which is the time that they call me down to theater for the surgery my great friends Tim and Al are going to join me for this and will be raising money for PSC support PSC has no cure and no effective treatment PSC support have committed to funding 1 million pound worth of research into PSC by the year 2030 like proper research with scientists and everything not the sort of nonsense that I’m doing now while he may never have won Gold Medal in football at the British transplant games here’s someone who’s still enjoyed incredible success on the football pitch and done a great job recover recovering from transplant and raising awareness about PSC James Kier on di here wishing you all the best for the bike ride I hope you absolutely smash it I hope you raise loads of money I’m now going for a run myself so hopefully I get fit enough for next year I’ll be on the bike ride or doing some kind of charity work with you good luck mate take care you don’t want to disappoint a former England International and you heard that Kieran wants us to raise load of money so if you can why not help us raise some money for PSC support and I’ll keep you updated on how our training is going on thanks friends