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Could you be our fundraiser of the month?

Starting in August we'll be launching a new regular feature here on the blog. Each month we'll be highlighting the exploits of one of our amazing volunteer fundraisers.

To be featured you don't necessarily need to be raising the most money what we are on the lookout for our new, exciting, different or inspirational fundraising stories that will showcase the fantastic work put in by all of our countless fundraisers who make everything we do possible.

We'll also be posting your story on Facebook and on Twitter so it'll be a great way to get some more publicity and hopefully some more donations.

If you'd like to put yourself forward just leave a comment below to let us know what you're up to.

Posted in Fundraising by Ian Beningfield on 23 July 2010

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Posted on 01 August 2010

Comment by jason longdon/Sarah Spittles

SASKIA AMELIA SPITTLES LONGDON 6 MONTHS OLD AT TIME OF ILLNESS STARTING/ AGE NOW 9 MONTHS NOW; (MENINGITIS MENINGOCOCCAL SEPTICAEMIA SURVIVOR LEG AND FINGERS REMOVED BY AMPUTATION WE SPOTTED A RASH ON SASKIA’S STOMACH AND DID THE GLASS TEST STRAIGHT AWAY, BUT THE RASH DID NOT GO AWAY.
IT WAS SUSPECTED THAT SASKIA HAD MENINGITIS AT GRIMSBY HOSPITAL WHERE SHE WAS MET BY THE SPECIALIST THAT DEALS IN THIS CONDITION. THE MENINGOCOCCAL SEPTICAEMIA SPREAD THROUGH HER BODY VERY FAST AND POISONED HER BLOOD STREAM HER RIGHT LEG TURNED BLACK AND THE FLESH WAS HANGING OFF. HER TIPS OF HER FINGERS ROTTED AWAY. THERE SHE BATTLED FOR HER LIFE AND IN THE MEAN TIME WAS TRANSFERED TO LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY WHERE SHE CONTINUED TO BATTLE. WE WERE TOLD THAT SHE MAY NOT SURVIVE AND THE NEXT 48 HOURS WOULD BE CRITICAL. SHE HAD TO BE GIVEN C.P.R AS HER HEART STOPPED FOR A WHILE.
SHE FORTUNATELY MANAGED TO GET THROUGH THE NEXT 48HRS WHERE WE CLINGED ON TO THE HOPE SHE WOULD SURVIVE. SHE SPENT THE NEXT 3 WEEKS ON PEODIATRIC INTENTSIVE CARE UNIT WHERE SHE MADE 2 STEPS FORWARD AND 1 BACK. AGAIN ABOUT 2 WEEKS AFTER BEEN IN PEODIATRIC INTENTSIVE CARE UNIT SHE HAD TO BE GIVEN C.P.R AGAIN AS HER HEART STOPPED. SHE MANAGED TO IMPROVE AND WAS TRANSFERED TO LEEDS PEODIATRIC CHILDRENS WARD 55.
SASKIA’S RIGHT LEG HAD TO BE AMPUTATED FROM JUST BELOW THE KNEE AND SHE NOW HAS 3 HALF FINGERS ON ONE HAND AND THE TOPS OF THE OTHER HAND TOPPED FROM ABOVE THE NAIL, AND ON A COUPLE ON THE NAIL.
EVERY OTHER DAY SINCE THE LEG HAD BEEN REMOVED, WE HAVE TO WATCH AND LISTEN TO SASKIA’S SCREAMS AS SHE IS PLACED IN ANTI-BACTERIAL SOLUTION, AFTER HER DRESSINGS ARE REMOVED FROM HER STUMP. (THIS MUST REALLY STING AND CAUSED HER A LOT OF PAIN). WE TRY TO COMFORT HER THE BEST WE COULD.

OUR LIVES HAVE BEEN TURNED UPSIDE DOWN FOR THE LAST 12 WEEKS AND WILL CONTINUE WITH REGULAR HOSPITAL VISITS IN THE MONTHS AND YEARS TO COME WITH PROSTHETICS MAYBE NOT EVEN IN THIS COUNTY.
WE HAD BEEN LIVING AT THE SICK CHILDRENS TRUST FUND CENTRE WHICH IS 2 MILES AWAY FROM LEEDS GENERAL WHICH RUNS ON CHARITY DONATIONS AND WE WERE NOT CHARGED FOR THIS ACCOMADATION WHICH WAS A LOVELY PLACE TO STAY .WE WISH TO RAISE MONEY FOR THIS CHARITY AS WITHOUT IT WE WOULD OF NOT BEEN ABLE TO STAY CLOSE TO SASKIA.
IF WE CAN STOP THIS HAPPENING AGAIN TO SOME BODY ELSE’S CHILD BY TELLING OUR STORY BY THEM SPOTTING THE SIGNS EARLY AND GETTING PROMPT TREATMENT THEN WE HAVE ACHIEVED SOMETHING OUT OF THIS TERRIBLE TIME IN OUR LIVES. OUR HEARTS GO OUT TO ALL THE FAMILYS WHO LOST LOVE ONES TO THIS TERRIBLE DISEASE, AS WE KNOW THERE IS CASES AROUND THE LOCAL AREA. JASON LONGDON AND SARAH SPITTLES.
CHARITY EVENT AT THE ADAM AND EVE PUB WRAGBY 7TH AUG 2010 (ALL DAY EVENT -TIME TO BE FINALISED) TO RAISE MONEY FOR THE MENINGITUS RESEARCH FOUNDATION AND SICK CHILDRENS TRUST. GAMES BOUNCY CASTLE RAFFLE ECT ECT AND LOTS MORE ALL WELCOME. MAKING A SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCE IS SASKIA HERSELF.