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Wilde Family - Financial Support

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My name is Stuart, and my father in law, Michael Wilde unexpectedly and suddenly passed away in the early hours of Saturday morning 8th Feb without warning.

Fateful event (Reading further could be disturbing for some, skip to Please give your support further down)

We received a phone call at 2:30am from Meg, that Dad was not breathing and there are a team of paramedics here working on him. We headed for the Sunshine Coast immediately. He still has no heartbeat and CPR had been going for quite some time. The Paramedics were doing all they could, they gave it everything they could and manged to get the heart going and Mike breathing on life support.

We got to the emergency department at 4am and the staff noted that they would be very surprised if Mike were to recover from this. Mike was on life support and unresponsive with breathing tubes and all sorts attached to his body, blood was found in the gut and the time without oxygen show catastrophic damage to the brain.

He was moved up to the ICU for further review after scans.

Hours pass, the doctor informs us that he is unresponsive, and they had found the pancreas appears to be have inflamed for a long time and that there was an infection that likely started there and passed on to other organs. His kidneys were also starting to fail. 

At this point, there was no hope. We had all come to realise that Mike had essentially died at home before the paramedics arrived.

Mike would not recover and basically be on life support for an unknown amount of time.

Mike's life support was switched off just after 9am.

The series of events were very traumatic. Dee, Hayley & myself, Jae & Alisha, Meg & Jamie, Margret & Stan were all present by Mike's side when he passed.

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The loving father leaves behind wife Dee, son Jae, my wife Hayley, and daughters Meg and Melissa.

Michael was the main provider for his family

With the sudden passing, Dee was left not knowing where they stood financially as Michael handled all the finances. I have just recently been through all their financials and found her income only covers roughly 21% of the immediate week to week bills. 

This does not take into account the upfront funeral and solicitor costs that will be incurred this week. Not to mention the very short span the savings will last covering the deficit week to week.

We have already taken steps to reduce the outgoings and a financial plan for the future.

In saying all this, unortunately it is all of little help to this much loved family right now.

I'm asking family, friends, complete strangers to donate small or large, pay it forward. Help this amazing family if you can. Even the smallest amounts add up.

Love to all that read this and feel the need to donate.  Your compassion is what gives us hope that there is a light at the end of the tunnel for this family to adjust and be financially stable.

Regards,
Stuart Bramham

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Stuart Bramham
Organizer
Shelly Beach QLD

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