A woman who watched her mother die of multiple sclerosis has raised more than £3,500 for other victims of the disease by running the London Marathon.
Karen Burt, 29, spent her childhood caring for her mother, Jane, as she got more and more ill with MS.
Karen Burt
Mrs Burt finally died in September last year.
Her daughter, of Gladstone Road, Headington, has raised the money for the MS Society, which trains full-time carers enabling sufferers to stay at home for longer.
The environmental consultant said: "In training, I'd run 21 miles, but that hadn't felt as bad as I did 20 miles into the marathon. Feet swollen, tired and aching, I started to feel very emotional as the memories of the last few days spent with my mum as she was dying came flooding back.
"I began to think that the pain in my body couldn't be anything like the pain she suffered, and was spurred on once more."
**Picture: Richard Cave
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