Cycle for Louise
Travelling to and from the Royal Highland Show 2016 was slightly slower and more challenging for Katie Davidson from Halmyre Farm, Haugh of Urr.
This year she challenged herself with cycling the 200 mile round trip to Ingliston and back to raise much needed money for her friend Louise Hartley.
Louise, 24, was diagnosed with Hypercalcemic Type, Small Cell Cancer of the Ovary after having a tumour and ovary removed in March. Chemotherapy wasn’t successful in treating this aggressive and rare type of cancer, her family undertook their own research and found immunotherapy was their only hope in helping Louise to fight this horrendous disease.
Unfortunately with only 500 known cases of her type of cancer worldwide, immunotherapy isn’t licensed on the NHS. So her family have turned to private health care and her treatments cost £3000 per treatment which she receives every three weeks.
Lancashire-based Louise is well known in agriculture through her work as a journalist for the Farmers Guardian and as an enthusiastic member of Holstein Young Breeders and Young Farmers.
As well as Cycling for Louise, Katie also judged the dairy calves and showmanship classes on the Sunday morning before making tracks for home.
Katie would like to thank everyone who has supported her in raising money to help fund Louise’s treatments, especially Rodger Callander and Jane Armstrong, who each joined her on one leg of the journey.
So far she has received over £4000.
