My story

Brooke is six years old, she has Cerebral Palsy and is wheelchair bound.

 

There is a life changing operation called Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy (SDR) which would make Brooke’s life so much better for her. It’s a special operation for children with spasticity cerebral palsy. This operation has a reported 100% success rate in its 24 year history but it is only currently available in America and more recently Bristol, however not available on our NHS.

 

We had hoped with support and contribution to raise the sum of £40,000, the amount required for the operation to take place in Bristol, unfortunately after numerous trips and a vigorous physio assessments, Brooke was deemed unsuitable by the specialist in Bristol.   Fortunately, however we now have renewed hope as we have applied directly to Dr Park and his team at St Louis, USA, and we are very pleased that they have accepted Brooke for the SDR treatment.  Dr Park and his team are confident that the operation on Brooke will be successful.

The procedure will now go ahead in November, but as you can appreciate the amount we require has risen to  £70,000 to get over to the United States, so we need your support more than ever to reach this target.

This amount will pay for her operation, pre operative and post operative care, physiotherapy and the equipment she will need afterwards.


It's heartbreaking when Brooke is left behind crying while all her sisters, brother and friends are running ahead or playing on playground equipment and Brooke just has to sit and watch. 

Please help us change Brooke's life forever.

 

 

Thank you to the Tree of Hope Children’s Charity for all their help.




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My updates 4

Merry Christmas everyone! We returned home last week from the USA & the 2 operations were a huge success & Brooke is getting on great although there is still a long way to go for us all. Our total money raised to date is £65,800. Let's give a final push in 2012 to get to 70K.

27/12/12 12:57

We have currently raised a total off £57.287.03, Brooke's operation has been successfully paid for & will go ahead on the 15th November. Thankyou so much to everyone who has got us this far, our daughters dream is so much closer now. We just need a final push to hit £70K. xx

27/09/12 22:16

As of today we are currently sitting on £22,833.02, we still have a number of pledged sponsorships to come in from March skydive and various events coming up this month so this figure will rise! Great work thank you everyone!

02/07/12 21:36

Brooke's justgiving page is standing at £6833.00 at the moment guys, which is awesome!!

28/03/12 22:09

My charity

Tree of Hope

Tree of Hope

Charity Registration No. 1149254 In Scotland SC042611

Tree of Hope offers hope to the families of sick children in the UK who need specialist medical surgery, treatment, therapy and equipment in order to free them from suffering, giving a better quality to their young lives. England & Wales 1043092 Scotland SCO4261 http://www.treeofhope.org.uk

Donations 502

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Donation by Neville Doel on 09/09/12

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

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Donation by Anonymous on 07/09/12

£10.00

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Donation by Mike Arran on 06/09/12

£10.00

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Good luck with jump SHQ. Take Johnny Miller with you !!! hope it goes well and you don't land with a bump.

Donation by steve perez on 06/09/12

£5.00

+ £1.25 Gift Aid

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Wishing Brooke all the best and Sean on Saturday week.

Donation by George Quinton on 05/09/12

£20.00

+ £5.00 Gift Aid

Donation by Mark Foreman on 05/09/12

£5.00

Good luck xxxxx

Donation by Suzy Hall on 05/09/12

£5.00

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Donation by jacqueline costello on 05/09/12

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Good Luck Sean Hedges-Quinn on your tandem jump. Good luck with the fund raising xxxxx

Donation by vicky lloyd on 05/09/12

£20.00

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Donation by Anonymous on 05/09/12

£10.00

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Donation by wendy downton on 04/09/12

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Hope you raise all you need as soon as possible xx

Donation by Naimi on 04/09/12

£20.00

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Donation by Audrey Langoureau on 04/09/12

£25.00

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Hope my bit helps Lots of love @notsofamous2day I keep spreading the word

Donation by Mark Hughes on 04/09/12

£20.00

+ £5.00 Gift Aid

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Donation by Lynda Leahy on 04/09/12

£15.00

+ £3.75 Gift Aid

Donation by David Sharples on 03/09/12

£20.00

+ £5.00 Gift Aid

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Donation by Elaine Hollins on 02/09/12

£5.00

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Donation by Anonymous on 02/09/12

£20.00

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Donation by simon kidd on 02/09/12

£25.00

+ £6.25 Gift Aid

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Thinking of you all, looks like you're doing really well! Nearly there... good luck!! Love Sue, Rich, Theo and Reuben xxxx

Donation by Susan Patterson on 02/09/12

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

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Good luck. My son has cerebral palsy as well and I just wish I coulkd afford to donate more.

Donation by Matt Bushell on 29/08/12

£20.00

+ £5.00 Gift Aid

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Good Luck from Freightliner Staff at Felixstowe.

Donation by Hayley Smith/Michelle Manning on 28/08/12

£35.00

+ £8.75 Gift Aid

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Donation in respect of item bought on silent auction night, All the best Brooke, love Nanny & Grandad xxx

Donation by Gill Lawrance on 27/08/12

£60.00

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Donation by Nicola Beaumont on 25/08/12

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Good luck I hope every thing works out as you want.

Donation by David Spittle on 24/08/12

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

Donation summary

  • * Online donations£13,760.93
  • Offline donations£49,614.47
  • Text donations£219.00
  • Total raised£63,594.40
  • Gift Aid£2,495.98

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