Please help raise funds for Victoria Vine
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A message from Olly
As some of you may already know, my beautiful wife Victoria suffered a major near-death haemorrhagic brain stroke in November last year. It was touch-and-go for some time until we knew what the extent of the damage was, but Vic being Vic, she surprised us all and pulled through the surgery. The thought of losing her was just too much to bear.
Victoria spent three weeks at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, was then transferred to the Stroke Unit at High Wycombe Hospital for another few weeks, and is now undergoing extensive rehab at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford until she (hopefully) gets to return home in April.
Suffice to say, it’s a miracle that she has come this far in the past four months, as the bleed was huge and caused total paralysis of the left side of her body.
She continues to surprise us all with her progress, but the long-term reality is that Victoria has a severe disability, both mentally and physically, meaning that she will probably never work again and will take quite some time to regain the ability to walk.
Once Victoria does return home (and this day can’t come soon enough!) the bottom line is that our house needs to be totally ‘Vic-proofed’ with stair lifts, handrails, re-organisation of rooms so our bedroom will be on the ground floor, and changing of the front drive so that Vic can get in and out in a wheelchair.
I just want to try and create a home that makes it possible for Victoria to lead as ‘normal’ a life as possible.
Asking for money is really uncomfortable, but the truth of the matter is that private health doesn’t cover the majority of our needs going forward, and the brilliant NHS can only go so far with after-care, of which we are looking at tens of thousands of pounds for the foreseeable future.
As anyone who has ever had the pleasure to know Victoria, she is the most selfless person who always cares so deeply about everyone and has always been the first to fundraise for various causes close to her heart; running, swimming, cycling and climbing mountains to raise money for many people.
And the children in India and Thailand at the various orphanages she volunteered at were definitely the richer for her English teaching skills.
So what I really want to ask is, would you consider donating so that we can buy this amazing wheelchair for Victoria? It’s not your standard run-of-the-mill chair, but an all-terrain motorised vehicle that will enable Vic to join me on dog walks with the loves of her life – Brutus and Lulu - something she absolutely lives for, and to provide her with some normality with the ability to get outside and enjoy her life as much as she is able.
https://trekinetic.com/power/
If we could raise enough money to buy this chair I would be so incredibly grateful. You really have no idea how much it would mean to Victoria and myself.
Thank you.
Olly.
As some of you may already know, my beautiful wife Victoria suffered a major near-death haemorrhagic brain stroke in November last year. It was touch-and-go for some time until we knew what the extent of the damage was, but Vic being Vic, she surprised us all and pulled through the surgery. The thought of losing her was just too much to bear.
Victoria spent three weeks at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, was then transferred to the Stroke Unit at High Wycombe Hospital for another few weeks, and is now undergoing extensive rehab at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford until she (hopefully) gets to return home in April.
Suffice to say, it’s a miracle that she has come this far in the past four months, as the bleed was huge and caused total paralysis of the left side of her body.
She continues to surprise us all with her progress, but the long-term reality is that Victoria has a severe disability, both mentally and physically, meaning that she will probably never work again and will take quite some time to regain the ability to walk.
Once Victoria does return home (and this day can’t come soon enough!) the bottom line is that our house needs to be totally ‘Vic-proofed’ with stair lifts, handrails, re-organisation of rooms so our bedroom will be on the ground floor, and changing of the front drive so that Vic can get in and out in a wheelchair.
I just want to try and create a home that makes it possible for Victoria to lead as ‘normal’ a life as possible.
Asking for money is really uncomfortable, but the truth of the matter is that private health doesn’t cover the majority of our needs going forward, and the brilliant NHS can only go so far with after-care, of which we are looking at tens of thousands of pounds for the foreseeable future.
As anyone who has ever had the pleasure to know Victoria, she is the most selfless person who always cares so deeply about everyone and has always been the first to fundraise for various causes close to her heart; running, swimming, cycling and climbing mountains to raise money for many people.
And the children in India and Thailand at the various orphanages she volunteered at were definitely the richer for her English teaching skills.
So what I really want to ask is, would you consider donating so that we can buy this amazing wheelchair for Victoria? It’s not your standard run-of-the-mill chair, but an all-terrain motorised vehicle that will enable Vic to join me on dog walks with the loves of her life – Brutus and Lulu - something she absolutely lives for, and to provide her with some normality with the ability to get outside and enjoy her life as much as she is able.
https://trekinetic.com/power/
If we could raise enough money to buy this chair I would be so incredibly grateful. You really have no idea how much it would mean to Victoria and myself.
Thank you.
Olly.
Organizer and beneficiary
Jane Eakhurst
Organizer
England
Oliver Vine
Beneficiary