well, we did it - there and back hills, more hills and yet another hill, punctures, bit of drizzle, lunch and a cracking welcome back in Gainsborough when we returned 12 hours later

 

Thanks to everyone who has donated time, money or both - we've hit about £3500 and counting

 

Updated on Apr 26th 2012 at 12:01 PM from the JustGiving API

just back from a spot on radio Lincolnshire - podcast details to follow

 

Here we are on Melvyn in the Morning on Radio Lincolnshire

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00qxc5q (just cut and paste the link) and listen from 1:11:52 onwards :)

 

Thanks for taking the time to visit Carly's Charity Cycle Ride JustGiving page to thank and help the Nightingale Ward at Nottingham's City Hospital.

In March 2010, Carly was rushed to hospital having had 3 consecutive days of severe headaches and unable to move.

Close to death, within 48 hours of being taken into intensive care at Lincoln, she had to be moved to Sheffield for more specialist care at which point her husband had not left her side.Carlys Husband mother and father was the only relatives allowed by her bedside. Covered in drip lines, monitor lines and in a darkened room (as she could not bear the light such was the pain from the brain cysts) lay his wife and their only daughter.

No one, not even the specialists knew how long she would last or worst still what the cause of the problem was.

Test followed test, scan followed scan, samples cut out of her and sent away to all the top hospitals in the country - all returned with little or no idea as to what was wrong.

For Carly, it was slowly getting worse and worse, it was 9 months until she got see her children again, and then in very limited visits.

Her back had now started to ache and the scans revealed that the infection was attacking her spine to such an extent that her lower back had began crumbling.

The medic staff were still none the wiser or any closer to even halting her decline.

More tests and MRI scans followed, Hickman Lines and catheters put in, getting infected and replaced, more antibiotics to try and the joy of lumber puncture after lumber puncture. Oh and let's not for the endoscope cameras taking pictures angles than a paparazzi photo crew - on and on it went.

Only in the Autumn of 2011, did things begin to move her way. One of the samples returned being identified as a close match to norcardia farcinica - a rare pulmonary bacteria that is more often fatal than not.

Once stabilised, which took over a month from that break through, the team at City Hospital could set about repairing the damage to Carly's spine.

She now has 15 - 18 inches of metal work holding her spine together and has to wear a carbon fibre corset to keep it all in place. Carly's carbon corset is due off at some time in 2013, provided all holds together.

Daily Carly has to take a cabinet of medications - from antibolics to pain killers every 4 hours. (a big improvement on the every 2 hours before) She has to sleep downstairs on an electrically operated bed and to get about Carly has the choice of a wheelchair or a pair of crutches, and the body brace for support, .

Currently Carly is diagnosed as having 8 medical conditions - pulmonary alvenular proteinosis distitis, vertibal oestomyeli, cerebral abscesses, ventricular septical defect, nocardia farcinica, severe gastritus, fractured spine and e.coli septicaemia.

On Bank Holiday Monday 7th May 2012, Carly's husband (Matt), her son (Liam) and her dad (Keith) are going to cycle from Gainsborough to the Nightingale Ward at the City Hospital and back (about a 100 round trip). If you wish to join them or just want to turn out and support them, contact matt via email matthewhindmarsh3@gmail.com for a copy of the route or sponsor forms or even sponsorship deals. Carly has spent so much time in Nightingale ward in the past and still goes at least fornightly even now.

Please help us to show our thanks - when Carly was diagnosed with norcardia farcinica, 7 other people also were diagnosed that year - only 3 survived.

Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving – they’ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they’ll send your money directly to the charity and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. So it’s the most efficient way to donate - I raise more, whilst saving time and cutting costs for the charity.

So please dig deep and donate now.

you can even donate by texting CCCR82 and the amount to 70070

A big thanks to those who have donated cash, as they don't show on the donations widget bits, we are going to mention them here - so

wendy and melvin, jenny,

and the many anonymous loose change donation to the collection tins

thank you as well

HOT NEWS

Aside from Matt, Liam,Sophie, Keith and Trevor, the number of riders joining us for the challenge is growing - so welcome along to Nigel, John Dickenson, Joe Nash, Pete Hanks,

 

and maybe  Jordan Skelly (you know you want to )

especially as Uncle Mick Brighton has joined the early start mob and Sophie-roo (age 10) is riding back with them too with her encouraging comments to help get them moving

 

Sponsor links

http://community.lincolnshire.gov.uk/GainsboroughAegirCycling/

http://www.churchstreetcycles.co.uk/