Some of you may know that last year we had to use the air ambulance when our son Albie became very unwell.

Last April Albie had chicken pox. He only had a few spots and wasn't poorly, we thought we'd got away with it! One evening he went to bed, saying he felt a "bit funny" but we thought nothing of it. Our eldest son, Owen, called down to us as he could hear Albie making a funny noise, I go upstairs expecting to tell him to go to sleep, except what I found was horrific.

Albie was having a full tonic clonic seizure. Which means all his arms and legs where jerking, he was foaming at the mouth, not at all with it. We dialed 999 and very quickly first responders and an ambulance arrived.

The paramedics confirmed he was having a seizure. They thought this could be because of a fault with his shunt. Albie has hydrocephalus and has a shunt fitted inside his brain which keeps him alive.

Paramedics gave Albie what medicine they had but it soon become clear this was a critical situation. Albie needed to be incubated (put to sleep) and given further medicine to stop him fitting.

The air ambulance was called and landed right outside our house. Its a bit like bringing an intensive care unit right to us. He was incubated and given more medicine which thankfully stopped him fitting. Because of the seriousness of the situation - it was not safe for Albie to be driven to a local hospital and because we thought the shunt was faulty he may need emergency brain surgery.

We was flown to Addenbrookes hospital in Cambridge and arrived within 30 minutes. Addenbrookes deal with all hydrocephalus problems and brain surgery.

Thankfully he didn't require any surgery but the cause of the seizure was put down to Epilepsy which is common with Hydrocephalus.

If we hadn't have been able to have access to the air ambulance that day Albie would have died. He needed to have the specialist resources and treatment immediately.

We cannot thank the air ambulance and crew enough for that day. So we are planning on doing this wall to try and supoort others who may need their help one day.

If anyone can help, no matter how big or small, or words of encouragement we would greatly appreciate it.

East Anglian Air Ambulance receives no regular government funding and relies entirely on the support of the community.

The crews are tasked an average of 8 times a day across the two bases, with each mission costing in the region of £3,750. They can reach anywhere in the region within 25 minutes when every second can make the difference to a patient in their time of need.