August 2021 Update!

After a nearly 18 month delay due to the pandemic, we will finally be taking part in the Great Hospital Hike next month to raise money for King's College Hospital Charity! We'll be walking the 17 miles from King's to the PRUH as a small family group.

As before, we're hoping to use the occasion as a way of saying 'Thank You' to King's College Hospital who have provided amazing care to Amelie - both during her acute stay in hospital in early 2020 for her liver transpant and since as a regular visitor. She is now a mischievous and charming 20 month old toddler and is doing incredibly well  - a testament to the fantastic support she's received from King's and our family and friends. 

This event will be particularly special as we are expecting our 2nd child to arrive - at KCH - at the start of September, so there may be a few bags under my eyes on the start line!

You can still sign-up to join us and raise money - see the GHH sign-up page at: https://supportkings.org.uk/great-hospital-hike-register

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On Saturday 28 March 2020 a team of our family and friends will be taking part in the Great Hospital Hike in support of King's College Hospital Charity and its Paediatric Liver department.

[  If you would like to join us - the more the merrier - you can sign up here: https://supportkings.org.uk/GHH

We are 'Team Amelie' :)   ]

We're doing this event as a small way of saying thank you to King's and its staff for the amazing care they have given our newborn daughter over the past weeks, and to support the Paediatric Liver department in delivering life-saving treatment to children from across the UK, Europe and beyond in future.

Our personal relationship with King's began in January 2020 when our beautiful 3-week-old daughter Amelie was referred here from St Thomas' Hospital after some blood tests identified a problem with her liver. Over the next few days, the experts at King's diagnosed her as having acute liver failure which would need a liver transplant for her to survive. On the Rays of Sunshine ward (paediatric liver) and in the Children's Critical Care Centre she received life-saving treatment while she waited for a donated liver to become available.

On 31 January, after 11 days on the super-urgent paediatric transplant list, Amelie received the amazing gift of a liver from a deceased donor and their family, which was transplanted in a complex 8 hour operation. The surgery went as well as we could have hoped and the clinical team began helping Amelie overcome the complications that arose from her surgery.

Amelie is still at King's and on the road to recovery. Without the world-class care and expertise available at King's, she would never have survived her condition. By raising money for King's we would like to make a small contribution to ensuring that children from across the UK, Europe and further afield can benefit from world-leading liver care at King's.

The money raised will go towards improving the medical and personal experiences of children and their families on King's Rays of Sunshine ward, which cares for children pre- and post-liver, intestinal and multi-organ transplant, including living donor transplants. The ward treats over 3,000 children per year and becomes home for families who are often admitted for months at a time.