To anyone reading,

This year i will be taking part in the Glasgow Easter Egg Run, in support of Yorkhill Children's Hospital.

I have done this event a few times now but this year its closer to my heart than ever. As you may have noticed the web address seems strange. but to explain,

My youngest neice (now over 1 year old) suffered an enlarged heart at 4months old.  (now to fill in the rest in my sisters words)

Lucy was rushed into Yorkhill Childrens hospital in Glasgow and immediatly put into a medicaly induced coma and put on a ventilator. She was pumped full of drugs to keep her heart going as they assessed the situation. At this point we were told that she was in the rule of thirds. A third of kids with this problem will make a full recovery, a third will survive but always require medical intervention and a third will die. we had no idea what group she was in but we hoped for the best and feared the worst. As a week and a half went by she got no better.

After about a week of them being at her bedside and sleeping next door to the hospital.

We got a phone call in our room at 5am telling us Lucy's heart had gone into a strange rhythm. i have never run so fast in my entire life. we were back by her side in 3 minutes. So to cut a long and very painfull story short, she crashed and even with all the heart recussitation drugs her heart couldn't support her. She was immediately put on the ECMO machine which is a heart lung bipass. Basically taking over the job of both her heart and lungs. The ventilator was still used but this was only to keep her lungs from closing up entirely. At this point lucy was put on the emergency transplant list.

So as the days went by again we were told her chances were getting slimmer. she then developed an infection from her stomach and got septicemia (blood poisoning) as a result. Her left lung then collapsed and her kidneys failed. Her stomach then bloated so badly due to the infection that she was now at risk of having a ruptured bowel. Sitting by and watching my darling little child slowly getting worse infront of my eyes is the most heart breaking things i have ever had to endure. We were watching as her hopes were slowely slipping away.

Since then Lucy has recieved a heart transplant along with a pacemaker and Tracheotomy, She is back in Glasgow and is living a life that 8months ago seemed impossible. Everything is still not perfect and she has a lot to go through.

More can be seen at a facebook group my sister set up:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=108404639209677

All i can ask is Please Please Please donate to help allow Yorkhill to continue to provide the support that helped keep our family from loosing Lucy.

 

For this Event, i will be traveling from my flat in middlesbrough (fully kitted in fancy dress (Currently looking like it will be sonic the hedgehog) ) and i'll ride my bike like this all the way to Glasgow, then will happily put on the outfit and take to the streets for the Easter Egg Run.

If i can raise £700 on here, my work, will match it. This will give Yorkhill a whopping £1400 so Please click that button and make this happen!