25 August 2020

CNWL service user Cedric Littman is going to cycle 100 miles for Diabetes UK.

Unfortunately, due to Covid-19, Diabetes UK's annual bike ride has been cancelled but that hasn't stopped Cedric taking it upon himself to perform a strenuous 100 mile cycle.

Cedric says

I will ride 100 miles by riding north to Swains Lane, a killer hill where George Michael, Karl Marx, Michael Faraday, Henry Moore and many other famous people are buried. I ride up more killer hills in north London and then I will ride south to Canonbie Road, another killer hill, with a stop at home for food and water. That should be about 50 miles. Then I will ride on the flat and up some more killers till I have clocked up 100 miles. 

Cedric has been with our South Westminster Community Mental Health Team this year after a difficult experience, however since then, things have improved. This is what he had to say about the team earlier this year:

The world was losing no opportunities to make me ever more unhappy and was full of people I did not want to know so I decided, almost in the words of the song, to stop the world so I could get off. The world did not stop, though, and I awoke in hospital and was passed to the care of CNWL. Although life has been and remains difficult there has been a lot of improvement since being in their care. I saw a psychiatrist who helped me overcome my resistance to medication and made me feel like I am her most important patient and am working with an employment consultant who really cares and gives me invaluable help and encouragement.

Before the world closed down I participated in a course so I could be involved in interviewing CNWL staff and attended an event where, by chance, I found myself sitting next to the Chief Operating Officer who valued what I said so much she mentioned it in her conclusion.

I have nothing but thanks for CNWL and plenty of it.

Cedric now needs your help in sponsoring him for his 100 mile cycle. You can sponsor online using this link.