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<p>Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">My son was born 16 year ago with a hole in his heart and although this was not life threatening what was to follow was. Brad developed a breathing problem so that when he was crying and exhaling his airways would collapse and he could not inhale. We at the time were not aware of this and on a visit to the Freeman hospital’s children’s heart unit Brad started to cry and so his airways collapsed. But this time they did not open and after some time the crash team were called and he was brought back to us. This was an unbelievable time he was rushed into intensive care and the decision to give brad a heart bypass was took Brad was just over 2 month old at the time. The bypass was a total success he stayed in intensive care for 2 weeks before heading down to the ward but he was still kept on Oxygen. The pressure of the oxygen kept his airways open and allowed them to strengthen. Brad still had his hole in his heart at this point but because of his airways the operation was postponed. Brad was realised from hospital a little over 3 months from when he first went in and when he was just over a year he had a successful operation to patch the hole in his heart.</span></span></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">I have raised money for The Children’s Heart Unit Fund (CHUF) before but its been a long time and with the threat of closure to the unit I now think they need all the help they can get so please help.</span></span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The first challenge is to finish my 3rd Ironman Triathlon this year (a little over 4 month since the first one) which is also the world Championships in Hawaii in October. More importantly is that I’ve never done 3 Ironman races (2.4mile swim, 112 mile bike, 26.2 mile run) in this period of time before so not quite sure how it will go. I have two other events in the pipe line but I would like to finish this first.</span></span></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Target £1000 I would like to get this before I cross the finish line on October 8 that’s not long so PLEASE HELP</span></span></span></strong></p>
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<p>So please dig deep and donate now.</p>
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