‘When I couldn’t fix George, I climbed a mountain’

‘When I couldn’t fix George, I climbed a mountain’

A father climbed Mount Kilimanjaro while wearing a special vest that weighed 20kg (44lbs) to represent his son’s weight in a bid to raise awareness about meningitis. James’s son, George, was diagnosed with bacterial meningitis at three years old and spent several days in intensive care before having a seizure and losing his hearing. The … Read more

‘We couldn’t afford fertility treatment so we risked finding a sperm donor on Facebook’

Private clinics were not an option for Lorraine and her partner, however. “It was far, far too much money, it would take me years to save up,” Lorraine says. Obtaining sperm from a sperm bank costs between £600 to £1,300 pounds per sample, depending on the country of origin. Source link