A big shout out to @carpies_89 who continues to crush every #ToughMudderChallenge while also battling a brain tumour. His #ToughMudder journey is a pretty inspiring one.



"Back in 2010 a pesky brain tumour was missed during a CT scan. It wasn’t discovered until 2018.



In 2016 and 2017 I completed my first and second Tough Mudder. Thanks to that misdiagnosis in 2010, this means I earned my orange and green headbands with a brain tumour. In 2018 I had brain surgery to remove the pesky little hitchhiker. I told a nurse sat next to me during the surgery that I’d be completing two Tough Mudder’s in a few months. She giggled and reminded me that I won’t be doing anything like that at all for at least a year.



Spoiler alert – much to the annoyance of my friends, family and consultant, I nailed my blue and yellow headbands 3 months after the brain surgery! Within a year of the surgery, I was told I had a hole in my head, leading to my brain. It was caused by an infection from the brain surgery – meaning the weekend I’d earned my blue & yellow headbands, I did so with a hole in my head.



Not long after I nailed my 5th Tough Mudder I was told that my pesky hitchhiker missed me so much, it had started to regrow, meaning I’d completed a third Tough Mudder with a brain tumour hitching a ride all the way.



We all have a story to go with our headbands. When I see my headbands, it’s one of the rare times I actually get to feel proud." #HeadbandMonday #OvercomingObstacles ...