The Albies Army Trust

We new our baby boy was special the minute he was born, we just didn’t anticipate just how special he was going to be

On the 26th Feb 2024 I woke up to every parent’s worst nightmare and my beautiful, happy, healthy smiley boy was blue and not breathing.

I never thought I would ever have to give anyone CPR but there I was giving my 7 month old baby mouth to mouth. On the 5th breath albie finally took a breath and before I knew it the ambulance and my family were by my side.

we were taken to Hastings hospital and by Monday night Albie seemed to of made a full recovery. On Tuesday morning Albie started having seizures which continued untill Thursday morning were they decided they would have to put him into an induced coma as they had run out of medicines to try and control them.

That is when the evelina childrens hospital took over <3 by Thursday evening we were told Albie had a rare brain condition which had caused his brain to swell which was then causing him to have sezuires. They told us the the next 72 hours were critical to whether he would make it or not. But I never gave up on hope. I knew my boy was put on this earth for a reason. And I knew there was a reason why I woke up that morning when I did and brought him back to life.

3 days went by they tried all different kind of drugs and nothing seemed to work. They even tried waking Albie up and he went straight back into having sezuires so they had to put him back to sleep.

after 5 days of intense steroids to help with the swelling we was sat down and told that not only did our baby have a rare brain condition but he had a condition that they had never seen or treated before but they would do all they could to save him. The only way I can describe it is that Albie caught an infection.. and instead of it attacking his brain cells in Albies case it jumped into his brain cells. They were going to try a new drug that would be drip fed into him over 2 days.. we named it “The Army” where thousands of tiny anti bodies would go into Albies body and attack the one thing that was hurting my baby.. it only needed 1 tiny anti body to get through and get rid of it. If this drug worked then they would have the cure for future babies that may come in with the same systems and that’s when I new my baby wasn’t just put on this earth to save my life.. he was put on this earth to save many more

they told us that Albie only had a very small chance of recovering and if he did recover then there was a high chance of him being severely brain damaged.

but we still never gave up on hope.

after 2 days they decided to try and start waking Albie up again and started to reduce all the medication he was on..

from the minute they starting waking up.. in my eyes was the start of us witnessing a miracle

he’s not only woke up without any seizures but he’s thriving, his right side of his body is a lot weaker but with the right physio I know in my heart it will be just fine. we have now been moved out of intensive care and we are now in a ward where we will stay untill it’s safe to come home.. but home really is wherever my baby is

we were told Albie only had a small chance of recovering that if he even survived this.. and as I write this we are on our way home with our “small chance” happy, thriving boy and I honestly have never felt happiness like it. Albies will always have this brain condition which they have called AISD but there is nothing to say what has happened will ever happen again. There may be some long term effect but we won’t know untill Albie starts growing up and if there is any then we will cross that bridge when we come to it <3 all I know is that my baby’s heart is pumping and his lungs are working and he has his infectious smile back and that’s all that really matters <3

how do I thank a bunch of selfless strangers that done everthing in there power to save our baby? How do I thank a bunch of strangers that held us together at a time where everything was falling apart?

words will never be enough to thank the evelina children’s hospital and Ronald McDonald.. so all I can do is raise money and awareness for all these incredible people and for family’s that are going through a similar experience <3

Thats were “The Albies Army Trust” comes in.. I’m going to be organising fund raising events and doing everyhing I can to help and I would love for you all to come on this journey with us <3

LOVE CONQUERS ALL