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To help me live life again after being in a house fire

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  • Hi my name is Vanessa Hayes and I am a Burns Survivor. 5 years ago while I was sleeping my home was set on fire. Even to this day I have been given no real answers as to what had taken place. I had 3 little dogs and I managed to get 2 out to safety, once outside I could see the fire in my neighbours roof space so did everything I could to get my lovely neighbour Anne and her family out. Once everyone was safe I ran back into my home to look for my little Bichon Bella. No one could stop me but unfortunately my quest was unsuccessful. My memory once back in to the inferno has been wiped from my mind, but I do remember the smoke was scolding but I had suffered severe smoke inhalation, I remember trying to shout for Bella. I must have made it back up stairs as I was blown out of my bedroom window. I have some memory of trying to tell the fire chief I needed to get back in for Bella. There is so much more to this story but I was very poorly so was put in a coma on life support and sent to a hospital that has a burns centre. I had 48% full thickness burns also my internal injuries were horrendous. Anyhow I was in a coma for over 3 months in total I was given less than 10% chance of survival. So it has been a struggle ever since but I am here and I know I am meant to be here.
  • Before the fire I loved life and I lived it to the full. I had 3 horses and I was/am an avid horse lover I lived to ride and compete.
  • I lost everything in the fire and I have not been able to get back anything.
  • So the reason I am looking for financial help to build a ménage here at home so I can ride and train safely as I want to complete as a part of GB Parra Dressage on my amazing horse Alan. Also I would need some kind of assistance to get me to competitions and attend training with specialist trainers.
  • I was in hospital a long long time, around a year when discharged but I still couldn’t walk, I didn’t recognise myself as I had to have a full facial reconstruction and I have had to manage a lot of challenges like indescribable pain that is always present, I am in a body that does not work as movement is impaired with my arms and neck restricting everything I do, also discovering a back and hip injury. Living with pain and scarring is very difficult but I have had the help and support of my family and the Katie Piper Foundation. So now I live my mum and dad but I would like my own little place I can live supported by my care team. I have a wish to have 2 abodes on the land I keep my horses. The other abode I would make into a place where Survivors of any Traumatic Event can come and stay and spent time around the horses and they will benefit greatly, also in the other dome I would like to have a treatment room where I can organise the therapy for the survivor that they would benefit from. Already I have Outlined what I would like to achieve. But that’s a plan for the near future.
  • So right now I am needing the ménage facility. A safe space to ride as the roads can be dangerous and already I have has a few scares.
  • I want to launch a YouTube Chanel to talk about Trauma and its effects on you and your family and friends. I would like to help other survivors find 'there why' a reason to move forward through a life of rehabilitation. I would like to source useful items and demonstrate them to help burn survivors particularly that are struggling with scaring.
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  • Anonymous
    • £20
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  • Anonymous
    • £10
    • 15 d
  • Josie Worsfold
    • £5
    • 16 d
  • Joanna Donnelly
    • £25
    • 16 d
  • DIANE FRITH
    • £25
    • 17 d
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Vanessa Hayes
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