Thanks to everyone who supported me on one of the most challenging days of my life!!! What an amazing day. I'm doing a half marathon in October for SENSE. If you fancy sponsering me please just follow this link to another just giving page.

http://www.justgiving.com/Aisling-Creevey0

 

Thank you!!!

 

Deafblindness is a visual and hearing impairment sometimes called multi-sensory impairments (MSI). My granddad was born deaf and dumb and for his whole life he never spoke and never heard any of the people he loved speak a word, never heard the roar of fans at a football match or the sound of his children laugh or cry. All of the sounds in the world we take for granted, it would have been his wish to hear them for just a few seconds.

If you donate:

£5 – could buy a set of musical bells to help stimulate even the tiniest amount of a deafblind child’s hearing in music therapy.

£7.50 – could pay for a deafblind child to experience sailing and feel the wind on their face on their Sense holiday.

£15 – could pay for a tactile book to develop a child’s sense of sight and touch at a Sense family centre.

£25 – could buy an interactive light tube to help stimulate a deafblind child’s remaining sight.

£50 – could pay for an afternoon’s pony riding at Sense’s stables in Peterborough 

£250 – could kit out a home with sensory ‘trails’ enabling the deafblind residents to identify specific rooms, stairs etc enabling them to live in a safe, secure environment.

£500 – could pay for a child to undergo a specialised educational development assessment to establish what their learning abilities are.

My granddad lived his life through a notebook. This is how he communicated to those that could not sign. He was very lucky to have trained as a tailor and through this notebook he made a living and met and fell in love with my Nana.

They spoke to each other using an alphabet with their hands and this is what I learned as a child and this is how I communicated with him.

He absolutely loved football, trains and drawing. His family put together all sorts of wonderful helpful home made contraptions so he would realise the bell or the phone was ringing or the cooker timer was going off! People say that the eyes are the windows to the soul and if you looked into his eyes you would have seen he had the most gentle spirit.

He would have loved to have lived in this era and perhaps he may have even been able to hear with all the wonders and advancement in audio enhancements.

I am running the London Marathon in his honour for anyone affected by deafblindness.

No one would have thought that a deaf boy born in Dublin all those years ago would been educated, married and had a wonderful family.  Nothing is impossible.