He was then transferred to the University College London Hospital and taken to a specialised Covid ward, but he then started to become seriously ill, and was transferred to Intensive Care and placed into a medically induced coma for the next three weeks.
Whist battling Covid, Shaun still had to start treatment for his AML, and was placed onto a clinical trial which was able to be administered whilst he was in his coma.
Months later, and Shaun was finally given the news in March 2021 that he was in remission, all before receiving the blow that the leukaemia had come back in November 2021.
Shaun then went on to receive a bone marrow transplant in April 2022, which he is still recovering from to this day.
Last year, Shaun wanted to give something back to the charity, and first took on this streaming challenge last year, managing to raise an impressive £670.
He spoke about his motivations at the time:
“I have been a Crystal Palace supporter from birth and, growing up, my favourite player was Geoff Thomas.
“Knowing his problems with leukaemia and the amazing work he has done to raise funds for Cure Leukaemia I wanted to follow suit. He is inspirational and a big reason why I’m determined to do what I can for the charity.
“The problem is my fitness is nowhere near good enough right now to do anything cycling-related as Geoff has done.
So, I thought ‘what is something I know I can do?’ Having previously done a charity stream on Twitch, I thought ‘why not go for it again.”