Pduk & gosh

[Lee]

Performance Deals Uk & Great Ormond Street Hospital






Hi Guys, Performance Deals Uk Ltd have chosen to make the GOSH there sponsored chairty and as such has set up its own donating page located here



http://www.justgiving.com/performancedealsuk


GOSH holds a very special place in the heart of PDUK as Dave the Co-Director of PDUK lost his 3 week old daughter in GOSH in 2003 and because of this we have decided to donate to this wonderful charity. Aswell as the donations page PDUK will also donate quarterly to the GOSH from its profits.



Between your donations and our contributions we hope to raise £10,000 in a year.



I personally thank you in advance for all your kind donations.



Lee & Dave



Performance Deals Uk Ltd

[Lou]

Done! ;)

[Lee]

Done! ;)

Many Thanks Lou, and you are right it is a very worthy cause.

Here is a bit from Dave and is the reason why we support this charity.


I apologise if this post upsets you in any way but i feel that a full understanding as to why we picked this charity to support as it holds a place close to our heart which myself and my wife have chosen to explain to you.

On Tuesday 1st may 2003 at 05:24 a little girl called Mia charlotte was born. No one new the journey that was is store for this little life, the struggle, and the courage that someone so young would have to endure.
Mia was born at St Mary’s hospital in Portsmouth and after having all the normal checks done she was said to be a healthy little girl. Her first night was spent at Blake’s maternity ward in the Gosport war memorial hospital in Gosport. We were there from the Tuesday until the Friday morning, we took her home everything was fine for the first two days then my wife noticed her colour changing from the baby pink to a grey colour and she always had bluish hands and feet I asked the professionals is this normal and I was told babies change colour so for my wife being a 21year old mum first time she believed what was said. On her 11th day she had her morning feed as normal at 08:30 and slept to 15:30 I tried to feed but she wouldn’t take her feed she just wanted to sleep, the rest of the day her feeds were only small feeds. The next day about 13:00 my wife’s mum said that she wasn’t happy with the way Mia was behaving so they went to Blake maternity ward at the War Memorial Hospital Gosport, while they were there and the midwife was taking a look at her Mia’s colour changed which caused the midwife concerns so she called for an ambulance which took them to St Mary’s hospital Portsmouth, she spent 3 and a half days there and then was taken to Southampton general to the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) as St Mary's had exhausted all their avenues. She was put on a machine called an oscillator. She was only at Southampton half a day as early hours Friday morning she was rushed to Great Ormond Street Hospital to be put on a machine called Ecmo at this point we still didn’t know what was wrong with Mia until she had been at great Ormond Street for two days. She had been diagnosed with a condition called Adeno virus. Unfortunately things didn’t get any better and on the 19th June we had to make the decision on continuing the treatment with only a 2% chance of recovery or choose to end the treatment so the machine became free for another child that had a better chance of survival. Mia passed away at the age of 7 weeks and was buried on the 24th June.


Here are a few facts about the treatment that was provided for our daughter,


ECMO was first used successfully in the USA in 1976 and was introduced into this country in 1989. It was first set up at Great Ormond Street Hospital in 1992 and to date GOSH have supported over 400 babies and children. Great Ormond Street Hospital is one of the three centers currently providing ECMO support for babies in England and Wales. Between these centers there are only fifteen machines available. The ECMO machines cost about £70,000 but a target of £100,000 has been set to include costs for training staff to use the equipment. If the family had gone private it would have cost them £3,000 a day to use the machine.

I can’t stress enough how much support GOSH requires and I hope that you will pass the word around to help raise money for this charity as on an average they require to raise £50 million a year to help provide the treatment and since our time in GOSH they have been constructing an extension which they hope to have open in 2012.