A big thank you from Charlie Randle

Dominic Randle is organizing this fundraiser to benefit THE BUBBLE FOUNDATION UK.

We are raising money in aid of THE BUBBLE FOUNDATION UK as a thank you from Charlie Randle for getting a great chance for a healthy and happy life.

At 2 weeks old we found out Charlie was extremely unwell with a condition called SCID, a condition where your body cannot protect itself against any incoming infections or virus’, allowing it to take over the body. Even a common cold could kill, affecting 1 baby in 58,000 in the UK. Luckily we found out Charlie has this condition due to the introduction of a new heel prick test done on babies at birth which was only introduced in September and is only on trial in certain parts of the country, with Manchester being one of them! Charlie was the first baby in the country to be diagnosed with this condition following the new heel prick test. Normally parents would be unaware that their baby had the condition and they would die within the first year due to their bodies not having an immune system to fight off infection and virus.

A month or so on we had relocated up to Newcastle and on 25th Nov 2021 Charlie received his bone marrow transplant from Dom (Dad), and we are on the road to getting Charlie to full health and leading a happy life. The Bubble Foundation and Dr.Gennery (who we must mention) do fantastic work in this area and do both research for future treatments, protect patients in "bubble" environments at the Great North Children’s Hospital and of course help with the treatment and care itself, including chemotherapy and bone marrow transplants.

Charlie will continue to benefit from this care for a while yet, and this page is to help give something back to an organisation that we will never be able to thank enough.

More info can be found below on both the condition and the work that the Bubble Foundation do:

https://www.bubblefoundation.org.uk/

https://www.gosh.nhs.uk/conditions-and-treatments/conditions-we-treat/severe-combined-immunodeficiency-scid/

Thank you in advance for your contribution to this cause that now means so much to us.

Love, the Randle family. X

Below is the moment Charlie is about to get his transplant: