Home adaption and rehabilitation funds

I am trying to help and support my dear friend Pat Stacey to ease the worry and financial burden for home adaptations and any mobility aids and anything else that will be needed to in his recovery from him contracting Guillian-Barre Syndrome that at one point left him completely paralysed, unable to breath and fighting for his life.

I hope that you'll be able to join me and help him out in any way you can.

The passage of text below better explains what Pat has been through in the last 6 months.

Within hours of receiving his first Covid jab on 23rd March this year, Pat experienced pins and needles in his hands and feet and later collapsed . He was taken to A & E at Royal Derby Hospital and soon became very unwell with all of the classic signs of Guillian-Barre Syndrome, a rare illness that none of us had heard of before.

Over the next few weeks as the illness took hold, Pat became paralysed all the way from his neck down to his feet and also lost the ability to talk or swallow and ended up spending the best part of three months in Intensive Care, as he also developed pneumonia. During this time, he was ventilated, sedated and fitted with a tracheostomy to help him breathe and nearly didn't make it.

Due to the dedication of the ICU staff, Pat began to make progress and in June he was transferred to the Kings Lodge Rehabilitation Unit on London Road where he is having intensive physiotherapy to learn how to do everything again and re-train his body, as the illness begins to subside.

Pat can now talk and has regained the use of his arms and hands and is learning how to do basic every day tasks again for himself in preparation for returning home soon. He's unable to walk and is currently in a wheelchair but with continued physio it's hoped that he will be able to walk again at some point in the future.

Once the illness has taken hold, there are no guarantee's as to how long the recovery will take or if Pat will make a full recovery, but he's certainly on the right track and with continued support and hard work, this is looking very likely for him.

When he returns home he will need the support of carers and temporary adaptations to the house, along with transport to take him to his physio appointments.

Thank you