{"id":7601,"date":"2019-01-11T15:40:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T15:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fitproblog.mysites.io\/moonwalk-london-2019\/"},"modified":"2023-04-24T15:54:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T15:54:22","slug":"moonwalk-london-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/moonwalk-london-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"MoonWalk London 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>With a new year now upon us, we can\u2019t think of a better challenge to get involved with. Join the original night-time charity walk and experience London like never before &#8211; at the MoonWalk London. The theme this year is Disco Inferno! Are you ready to boogie on down and step into the groove with your funky decorated bra? FitPro\u2019s Flamingos certainly are!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WN0oFZ88z_8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>If you have any questions or you want to chat to other walkers, take a look at the MoonWalk community on its Facebook page:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/walkthewalkworldwide\/?__tn__=%2Cd%2CP-R&amp;eid=ARDYymCVsaiEQUirmQJtXYEkfmA8vIGW0979B5kgyKGw1C4byi9xNPqaZ1C80Lwr4IMkT4NHoq6NLbXR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Walk the walk<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>Don\u2019t just take our word for it \u2013 check out the event\u2019s reviews <a href=\"https:\/\/walkthewalk.org\/challenges\/the-moonwalk-london\/in-depth\/moonwalkers-reviews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/walkthewalk.primoevents.com\/ps\/event\/TheMoonWalkLondon2019?joincode=l01dK4505b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SIGN UP<\/strong><\/a> today<\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>We hope Bryan\u2019s story below will inspire you to find your walking shoes and disco through the night with other fit pros&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6872\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Bryan-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Bryan MoonWalk London\" width=\"452\" height=\"678\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bryan Thorn is a 48-year-old customer technical services engineer at Tata Steel who was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 44. Bryan was involved with the Men Get Breast Cancer Too! campaign. This is his story.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, I noticed a lump in my right breast when showering. I wasn\u2019t checking; in fact, like many people, I didn\u2019t know men were supposed to check their breast area. I wasn\u2019t naive enough to think men couldn\u2019t get breast cancer but it wasn\u2019t something you heard about.<\/p>\n<p>My mother had had breast cancer, so I went to see my GP and he referred me to the breast clinic, where the consultant told me it was a fatty lump and sent me on my way. A year later, the lump was getting bigger, the nipple became inverted and I started to get discharge from it. It also became painful to touch, even if someone just brushed past it. I went back to my GP who quickly referred me back to the breast clinic, where I saw the same consultant, which was a bit strange. I remember sitting in the waiting room and looking at all the things they say to look for and thinking, \u201cRight, OK, that rings a bell.\u201d This time they sent me straight for a biopsy and mammogram.<\/p>\n<p>That week of waiting for the results was horrible; I hadn\u2019t told my children or parents because I didn\u2019t want to worry them till there was a need for them to worry, so only my wife and I knew. I didn\u2019t sleep much that week. When I was given the diagnosis, all I could think about was, \u201cHang on, this has been there for 14 months; if that\u2019s the case, I\u2019m not sure what\u2019s going to come out of the consultant\u2019s mouth.\u201d My wife was furious it hadn\u2019t been diagnosed the first time, whereas I just wanted them to tell me there was something they could do about it. I had a moment on the walk back to the car where I had to sit down and gather my thoughts to avoid falling over.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back, it does anger me a bit but, at the time, I just wanted to get through it. I had a mastectomy, six months of chemotherapy and three weeks of radiotherapy, and here I am today. Throughout it, I tried to push on as positively as I could. It wasn\u2019t an easy conversation to have with my children, or my parents, or my wife\u2019s parents. It wasn\u2019t the easiest conversation to have at work. I work in a fairly male-dominated industry and a lot of people said, \u201cI didn\u2019t realise men could get breast cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To this day, other than the people I meet through Walk the Walk, it\u2019s not something you hear about much. It\u2019s so important to raise awareness in men about breast cancer. Almost everything you see is female related \u2013 and that\u2019s fair enough if you look at how many men actually get breast cancer compared to women \u2013 but I\u2019ve never seen any literature aimed at men. Really, I don\u2019t think it needs to refer to women or men; the literature could just talk about breast cancer symptoms in general.<\/p>\n<p>I think talking about it helped me mentally. My wife was brilliant, as was my family, and work was exceptional with my time off. Colleagues came to visit me between chemotherapy sessions and I liked that because it was a bit of normality between the peaks and troughs of the chemo, where I\u2019d feel absolutely terrible for seven to 10 days after each session.<\/p>\n<p>In the last 12-24 months, my wife and I have been doing different, new things as we feel a bit like I\u2019ve dodged a bullet. In the back of my mind there\u2019s always the fear it could come back, but it\u2019s all about making the most of life. Five years on, things are going alright \u2013 touch wood \u2013 and I think to myself, \u201cWhat a seven months that was!\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>SIGN UP today <a href=\"https:\/\/walkthewalk.primoevents.com\/ps\/event\/TheMoonWalkLondon2019?joincode=l01dK4505b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Where next? Find out how yoga has helped women who have experienced domestic violence.\u00a0 Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/index.php\/yoga-for-abuse-survivors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a new year now upon us, we can\u2019t think of a better challenge to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2980],"tags":[407,473,212,518,1801,141,1038],"class_list":{"0":"post-7601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-exercise-video-library","8":"tag-breast-cancer","9":"tag-challenge","10":"tag-charity","11":"tag-fitness","12":"tag-moonwalk-london","13":"tag-training","14":"tag-walking"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10112,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7601\/revisions\/10112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}