The feeling when I arrived home yday was unbelievable, 21 days, 2,573km through 7 countries from my original home in Luton, UK to my home here in Mallorca on my bike. I missed Cav & Indy so much. As always Cav was waiting for me, bless him 😸 🐾
#LondonSquareOQVueltaACasa
14 yrs ago today, I found this in my dressing gown pocket, Mum was taken down to theatre v early & I was being prepped to follow her into the adjacent operating theatre. Mum saved my life by giving me the best possible gift ever
@PoppetQ
my transplanted kidney. Thank you Mum ❤️
I was feeling quietly confident earlier after this morning’s MRI, then got confirmation the big C has indeed fucked off. So good to see the incredible guys at Guy’s & the amazing surgeon behind it all the legend
@tsoburol
🙌🏽🥰
#TeamOQ
#FuckYouCancer
#alive
Unbelievable! Just walking through Bedford town centre & this lovely lady just been fined £75 for riding her town bike in the town!
@BedfordTweets
are u having a laugh? How is this encouraging a healthier lifestyle, environmental factors et al?!🤬
@theJeremyVine
@cyclingweekly
5:30am wake up, last cup of water, shower, sexy gown & tights on, opted to go commando as disposable pants really weren’t doing it for me. Ready to rock & roll in a few hours! Let’s get this show on the road. Fuck you cancer, we’re coming for you! 👊🏽
#SavingPoppetQ
#FuckYouCancer
London for scans yesterday & back in today to see my surgeon
@tsoburol
to get results. Don’t think the cancer fancied a little bike trip through 7 countries back home to Mallorca & has buggered off! Yep a yr & half on from the cancer op, it’s stayed away! 🙌🏽❤️
#FuckYouCancer
Spotted our legendary left back
@alfiedoughty4
in the old town, what a guy & what an amazing season he’s had, so incredibly proud of our club not just this season in the Prem but every season 🧡
#COYH
#LutonTown
@LutonTown
I may not be home at the mo (I’ll be back v soon) I have no work but I’m on the road to recovery. No income & more importantly NO CANCER! Yep I’ve won 2020👊🏽 Nxt yr is going to be incredible! Thank you to all of your support at
@OQServiceCourse
❤️
#TeamOQ
#FuckYouCancer
#Mallorca
Yesterday morning’s morning. Back home now. Do me a favour if you haven’t already, can you sign up to the organ donor register please or at least consider it if you haven’t. It’d mean the world to me & lots of others! Thanks❤️
#OrganDonorRegister
#OrganDonation
@NHSOrganDonor
Well they did it
@tsoburol
& Mr Olsburgh removed the cancer tumour that was encapsulated inside my transplanted kidney
@PoppetQ
& saved her (& me!) now I get to leave & start the recovery process.
Watch more 👉🏽
#SavingPoppetQ
#FuckYouCancer
No better way to feel very much alive! Celebrating 16 years today since my Mum gave me Poppet my kidney. Fuck it’s good to still be here. Thanks to my team of surgeons, family and friends you guys are amazing 🥰👊🏽
#TeamOQ
#OQAlive
#kidneytransplant
Auditions for the biggest smile contest. Close call, but I’m going to call it a draw. Cancer has obviously got bored of me, all clear for another year. Can’t thank the legend that is
@tsoburol
enough 🥰
#TeamOQ
#FuckYouCancer
#health
#alive
I had kidney transplant in ‘07 I was told I’d never play football again. I worked full time for
@LutonTown
as a physio (2007-2010) we were relegated each yr after going into admin’ but The Mighty Kenny gave me the focus & determination to succeed I needed.
#COYH
#GCN
“So your cancer’s gone, you’re ok now!” Unfortunately no, back to being ‘just’ a kidney transplant patient. Be as strong as u can be; both physically & mentally. It goes a long way to fighting shit like this. Sitting waiting for tests to check my transplanted kidney is doing ok👊🏽
When you slowly get to meet the whole squad via Mallorca 🧡 Couldn’t be any prouder of our club
@LutonTown
Have a well deserved rest & mega holiday
@EdozieOgbene
#COYH
The NHS is incredible in case you didn’t know that before. I’m out of intensive care and now on the ward with the chicas at Guys Hospital. Big shout out to Ephel for all of her help last night making me comfortable & getting the central line without any pain!
#SavingPoppetQ
Own your health no matter how good or bad it is.
It’s yours.
Take responsibility, know your numbers, know the best people & do not take it for granted!
Ever.
I keep thinking how much worse all this could’ve been if I wasn’t fairly fit & knowledgeable.
#Health
Couldn’t not take a hospital selfie! Hair on fleek & no fucks given. One big battle coming up, in the words of the great Christmas legend herself (her cookbook used to always be out at my house this time of year) Delia Smith “Let’s be ‘avin you!” 😠👊🏽
#TransplantLifeSucks
I’m not gay
I’m not depressed
I’m not vegan
I eat meat
I like men
I like caffeine in my regular tea
I’m on more drugs than a small pharmacy has in stock
I sometimes like my sandwiches cut up into quarters (fairy slices)
Happy Monday all!
#WhyIsEveryoneSoFuckingNoseyOnTwitter
12 yrs ago today my Mum gave me the greatest gift of all (nope not a ZX82 Spectrum with Bubble Bobble) but my life saving kidney! We’ve had many adventures since on & off the bike. Thanks never seems to be enough, but both my Mum & Dad know what live
#organdonation
means to me ❤️
Reckon I’m the only kidney transplant person on world kidney day picking up their drugs in a Mallorcan pharmacy in a
@LutonTown
mask?! Yeah I know quite a niche market 😜🧡
#WorldKidneyDay
#COYH
In 2 wks I’ll be captaining
@GBTxCyclists
team at The World champs in Newcastle. The cycling team no one wants to be part of & you never know how long you’ll be a member of. You’ll also have to fail a fair few drugs tests too. All alive due to the generosity of our amazing donors
5 yrs ago today I made Puerto Pollença my new home. There’s no better place to be.
@OQServiceCourse
was created in 2017 & regardless of some pandemic continues to help all levels of riders here, new & old. Looking forward to seeing more of you over here when shit calms down 🥰
Bidons just for kids? No! Here’s my collection I’m fairly new to cycling after not being allowed to play football after my kidney transplant, cycling’s become my life. These plastic vessels fuelled my passion for the sport. Thanks to those people who inspire me along the way 👊🏽🥰
Two years ago lunch with these two legends before work here in the port. I remember GS saying what a buy Amari’i Bell was, he wasn’t wrong! What a squad they’ve built with
@Mickharford
How good is to have
@DavidDwilks21
& the gang in charge! 🧡
#COYH
@LutonTown
1 day to go! The cancer’s stayed away, now it’s time to ride home. 21 days, 7 countries, 2600km from U.K. to Mallorca. All in aid of my 2 surgeon’s urology charities. Who’s joining me for a spin through Europe? 😁
👉🏽
#LondonSquareOQVueltaACasa
@gcntweet
I’ve used my 8 yrs of teaching & 20 yrs of coaching experience to produce an online course of how to use social media both effectively and succinctly;
Lesson one -
Don’t be a cunt.
#socialmedia
#onlinelearning
#lifelonglearning
WE LOVE YOU LUTON, WE DO! WE LOVE YOU LUTON, WE DO! WE LOVE YOU LUTON, WE DO! OHHHH LUTON WE LOVE YOU! See you at Wembley lads! You were fucking incredible!!! 🧡
#COYH
#LutonTown
@LutonTown
Remember a convo I had with a player when I worked in pro football in 2007 post transplant.
“So you’re gonna get a tattoo for every yr you & your transplanted kidney live?”
“Yep”
“What if you live a long time?”
“Then I’ll be fucking covered” 😎🥰
#Alive
As week’s go this has most definitely been my hardest ever. Thank you to everyone who has messaged, sent best wishes & generally been awesome. The biggest thanks to my surgeons
@tsoburol
& Urology/transplant team for being the absolute best! 👊🏽❤️
#SavingPoppetQ
@CraigDavid
Hi everyone, I’m afraid I bear some sad news. Most of you will know Dave has been fighting cancer for the past couple of years. Last night, on 28th February 2024, with Lili, Dave’s wife, his family, close friend David and myself by his side, he passed away peacefully at home. All
10 yr old me, in floods of tears drew this masterpiece & put it up in our front window in 1992 (you can tell by those beautiful net curtains😆) but I knew we’d be back in the top flight!
1 more sleep, who else is beyond excited?!
#COYH
🧡
@LutonTown
Self employed with small business in bike, tourism, physio, outdoor industry in country which is in total lockdown with kidney transplant on immunosuppressants, currently has cancer on said kidney & living on my own. Could be worse!😜
#COVID19
#CheerUpButtercup
#WeAreAllInTheShit
That makes it my 4th European TT title. Not a bad little backdrop, no free cuppa or cake at the end though (I did pee in the bush like a normal mid week TT though 😆)
#OQRideFast
#EuropeanChamps
#cycling
#alive
At 8pm tonight here in Puerto Pollença the local police & Guardia Civil came out to thank us all for complying with the strict lockdown rules. If you don’t comply it will not work. Love my town. ¡Muchas gracias a todos!🥰
🎥 credit Andrés Moreno
#coronavirus
#Mallorca
#lockdown
As more people return to mainland Spain & those who ‘chanced it’ here now back to the U.K. the port is getting quieter again. If u can afford to quarantine on your return (or even holiday not on the U.K. quarantine list after) Mallorca is more beautiful than ever to visit 🥰
A Kidney isn’t just for Christmas. Most people think once you’ve had a transplant that’s it you’re all better. It’s a treatment not a cure. Thank you so much to the wonderful NHS staff for keeping me alive the last 12 years! 😘
#kidney
#transplant
#alive
#organdonation
#thankyou
Its
#organdonationweek
both of my parents are living
#organdonors
My Mum gave me her kidney
@PoppetQ
in 2007 & my Dad was my Uncle’s kidney donor in 1986.
Incredible proud of both of them!
Thank you 🙌🏽❤️