A legal eagle in Hampshire has unfolded her wings for charity – literally.
Trainee legal executive Stacey Quar, 29, raised £500 in a tandem parachute jump.
The mother-of-two, who works near Southampton, took part in the white-knuckle adventure to raise money for research and to support people with Crohn’s disease.
Stacey was diagnosed in 2009 with the condition, which causes inflammation of the lining of the digestive system.
She said: “At present there is no cure for the disease, which is very painful. When the disease it at it worse it involves admittance to hospital to be put on intravenous steroids and strong pain medication.
“I was absolutely terrified of falling out of a plane at 10,000 ft but the experience turned out to be fantastic and has helped focus the spotlight on Crohn’s.”
The debilitating condition, named after Dr Burril Crohn, one of the three doctors who first identified the disease in 1932, affects between 30,000 and 60,000 people in the UK – equivalent to 1 in 1,200.
The parachute jump, which involved being strapped into a harness with an instructor, took place at Old Sarum, near Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire.
Stacey works for Graeme Quar & Co, the business law specialist with offices in Fareham and Petersfield, owned and run by her father and managing director, Graeme.
To find out more about Crohn’s and Colitis UK, the beneficiary, please click on to http://www.nacc.org.uk/content/home.asp
Main symptoms are pain, urgent diarrhoea, severe tiredness and weight loss.
