I am running to raise funds and awareness for a charity close to my heart, The Parkinson’s Foundation. While I am hoping to raise much needed funds to help support all PD sufferers, I am running with a particular hero of mine in mind, my father-in-law, Wedner Wiscovitch.

Fortunately, Wedner does not have LinkedIn and is a reluctant user of social media as he would no doubt be embarrassed by me describing him as a hero, but hero he is!

Wedner was born in Puerto Rico before moving to NYC in his early 20s, and soon started his 30+ years tenure working in maintenance in a building next to the World Trade Center. On 9/11, Wedner helped all those in the floors above him make it out, carrying a woman down 40 flights of steps to safety, and walked his way back to New Jersey to his family, only to return every day after to clean up and help in any way he could. Whilst this anecdote is one that clearly evidences his heroic nature, it is only a chapter of the life story of a man who has demonstrated strength and resilience time and time again. 

PD is a cruel, capricious, debilitating and non-discriminate disease that affects even the strongest of people.

Please denote to help support urgently needed research and care.