An aspiring dad ran more than 350km from London to Liverpool for his wife with a chronic disease.
John Harris, 32, got roughly four hours of sleep over the three-day journey, which raised more than £16k for the Endometriosis UK charity, including a £2k donation from an anonymous donor on Sunday morning. He set himself the challenge after seeing his wife Sophie, 33, suffer for years with debilitating and "crucifying abdominal pain" akin to appendicitis.
The incurable condition, affecting roughly one in ten women and some trans men and non-binary people, involves tissue similar to the lining of the womb growing elsewhere in the body. This causes chronic pain, heavy bleeding and can block bowels and causes fertility problems, which saw Sophie and John, from Caldy on the Wirral, go on a four-year "emotional rollercoaster" of miscarriages and IVF treatment from Care Fertility Clinic in Liverpool.
