My 26 year old son Jamie Vincents Funeral Fund
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Jamie Lee Vincent 27/03/94 – 24/10/20
This is my eldest son Jamie Lee Vincent or Vizzle as we all called him. He was 26 years old and lived in Leeds. Unfortunately on the 24th October 2020, we lost him forever and he tragically died suddenly in the home he loved. He left behind his heartbroken mum (Sharon), dad (Tony), 2 younger brothers Stefan (23) & Danny (25), and 1 younger sister Shona (15) years old.
About Jamie.
Over the last 5 years, he had many issues with his health starting in 2015 when he caught Panton-Valentine Leukocidin (PVL) which is a form of pneumonia which unfortunately resulted in him losing one of his lungs. He also had to have another operation shortly after having developed a blood clot on his remaining lung which if not removed straight away could have killed him. Jamie ended up on a heart and lung machine at (Leeds General Infirmary) to do this, As it was so serious we got told regularly by the hospital staff that he wouldn't survive this and to prepare for the worst but they did this discreetly each time by talking privately to me and his mum into a room so not to upset the rest of our children especially with Shona being so young at the time. But despite all this and many operations later our son had the strength and spirit to overcome all of these dangers that we were told about all those many times before.
Jamie also had a serious stroke during one of the operations which killed off a small part of his brain which result gave him constant headaches for years afterward and for which he received yearly injections into the back of his head. This stroke also made him suffer from regular seizures which got a little less frequent over the years as his health started to get better and better with the medication he received for this.
Jamie spent over a year in total at St James's hospital & Leeds General Infirmary (LGI in Leeds while receiving the best care possible. The staff at St James's and Leeds General Infirmary (LGI) were incredible, and we as a family can't thank them enough for a joined effort in saving his life and giving us the many years more we had with him. After all this, we recommended the teams at both the hospitals that saved his life for an annual award that the NHS holds.
He eventually came out of the 'danger zone' and started to recover the best he could while at the same time waiting for further surgery to build his effected side back to normal after it left him with a serious disfigurement where the lung was removed along with most his ribs on that side. Unfortunately due to COVID-19, it was all delayed, and he got pushed further to the back of the Que for it and sadly he never got. We don't blame the NHS for this as all the family is proud of our NHS as we personally saw as a family first hand the miracles they performed under extreme stress.
His recovery
We were so proud when he got his own home to live in, spending most of his money buying little thing for it to make it homely that, to be honest years before you would never have expected him to buy and trying to live his life the best he could. These small things made you very proud as a parent. He was very house proud and looked after his house always buying things for it. Then the worst thing anyone could hear in a phone call out of the blue from one of his very closest friends that he had passed away. Myself & his mother feel so much guilt and have to live with knowing that he passed away alone and we were not there for him when he needed us the most, we also carry the guilt of his poor friend had found him that morning, our door is always open 24h for his friend if he needs to talk to anyone. Jamie died 2 days before my 47th birthday so I will never look forward to any of my birthday's again as long as I live because I know it will be coming up to his anniversary of him leaving us all forever.
Since we have lost him we have been so grateful for all the messages of support and people coming around with flowers to cheer us all up. We never thought we would be planning one of our child's funerals and as you could understand we never had any kind of insurance or any back-up plans in case the worst ever happened as you always think your children will outlive yourself, but unfortunately, the worst has now happened.
By funding this it would ensure he had the best send-off possible for him and would go towards funding a headstone for him too. He does really deserve it. We are not looking for all the costs just something towards it as funerals are very expensive as everybody knows. We have always been very proud people and it wasn't easy setting this page up asking for help.
He faced near death many times in the past but this time he just could not fight it. We would be very grateful for any donations however big or small to enable us to do this as soon as we can. The money raised will be going to us his parents so we can get things moving as fast as we can for him and lay him to rest.
We thank you as a family from the bottom of our hearts.
Tony, Shaz, Danny, Stefan, & Shona.
This is my eldest son Jamie Lee Vincent or Vizzle as we all called him. He was 26 years old and lived in Leeds. Unfortunately on the 24th October 2020, we lost him forever and he tragically died suddenly in the home he loved. He left behind his heartbroken mum (Sharon), dad (Tony), 2 younger brothers Stefan (23) & Danny (25), and 1 younger sister Shona (15) years old.
About Jamie.
Over the last 5 years, he had many issues with his health starting in 2015 when he caught Panton-Valentine Leukocidin (PVL) which is a form of pneumonia which unfortunately resulted in him losing one of his lungs. He also had to have another operation shortly after having developed a blood clot on his remaining lung which if not removed straight away could have killed him. Jamie ended up on a heart and lung machine at (Leeds General Infirmary) to do this, As it was so serious we got told regularly by the hospital staff that he wouldn't survive this and to prepare for the worst but they did this discreetly each time by talking privately to me and his mum into a room so not to upset the rest of our children especially with Shona being so young at the time. But despite all this and many operations later our son had the strength and spirit to overcome all of these dangers that we were told about all those many times before.
Jamie also had a serious stroke during one of the operations which killed off a small part of his brain which result gave him constant headaches for years afterward and for which he received yearly injections into the back of his head. This stroke also made him suffer from regular seizures which got a little less frequent over the years as his health started to get better and better with the medication he received for this.
Jamie spent over a year in total at St James's hospital & Leeds General Infirmary (LGI in Leeds while receiving the best care possible. The staff at St James's and Leeds General Infirmary (LGI) were incredible, and we as a family can't thank them enough for a joined effort in saving his life and giving us the many years more we had with him. After all this, we recommended the teams at both the hospitals that saved his life for an annual award that the NHS holds.
He eventually came out of the 'danger zone' and started to recover the best he could while at the same time waiting for further surgery to build his effected side back to normal after it left him with a serious disfigurement where the lung was removed along with most his ribs on that side. Unfortunately due to COVID-19, it was all delayed, and he got pushed further to the back of the Que for it and sadly he never got. We don't blame the NHS for this as all the family is proud of our NHS as we personally saw as a family first hand the miracles they performed under extreme stress.
His recovery
We were so proud when he got his own home to live in, spending most of his money buying little thing for it to make it homely that, to be honest years before you would never have expected him to buy and trying to live his life the best he could. These small things made you very proud as a parent. He was very house proud and looked after his house always buying things for it. Then the worst thing anyone could hear in a phone call out of the blue from one of his very closest friends that he had passed away. Myself & his mother feel so much guilt and have to live with knowing that he passed away alone and we were not there for him when he needed us the most, we also carry the guilt of his poor friend had found him that morning, our door is always open 24h for his friend if he needs to talk to anyone. Jamie died 2 days before my 47th birthday so I will never look forward to any of my birthday's again as long as I live because I know it will be coming up to his anniversary of him leaving us all forever.
Since we have lost him we have been so grateful for all the messages of support and people coming around with flowers to cheer us all up. We never thought we would be planning one of our child's funerals and as you could understand we never had any kind of insurance or any back-up plans in case the worst ever happened as you always think your children will outlive yourself, but unfortunately, the worst has now happened.
By funding this it would ensure he had the best send-off possible for him and would go towards funding a headstone for him too. He does really deserve it. We are not looking for all the costs just something towards it as funerals are very expensive as everybody knows. We have always been very proud people and it wasn't easy setting this page up asking for help.
He faced near death many times in the past but this time he just could not fight it. We would be very grateful for any donations however big or small to enable us to do this as soon as we can. The money raised will be going to us his parents so we can get things moving as fast as we can for him and lay him to rest.
We thank you as a family from the bottom of our hearts.
Tony, Shaz, Danny, Stefan, & Shona.
Fundraising team (2)
Hugh Gartshore
Organizer
England
Sharon Vincent
Team member
