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On boxing Day 2010 I received a phone call from my Mum saying "It's about your brother. The doctors say he might not make it through the night. Get yourself to Kingston Hospital Intensive Care Unit as soon as you can."

I hope you never have to take a phone call like this in your life. But if you do, I hope you find the same miracle workers at your hospital that I did.

I got there to find my brother's entire bodily workings had been taken over by machines and drugs. Breathing - via tube in to lungs and machine with heavy doses of oxygen. Kidneys - on dialysis. Liver - via drip and catheter. Heart - unsafe and unsustainable levels of drugs kept it pumping. Even his veins needed help retaining their blood. He required 2 nurses round the clock and constant scrutiny from the doctors. In short he was having total organ failure and was in a coma that was to last 3 weeks.

Only a few days earlier he thought he had a cold, or at worst Flu. Flu had become, pneumonia, which became septicemia, which very nearly became total disaster. We were thrust in to the hands of the Doctors and nurses who work in Intensive Care. Watching their machines beep and flash numbers, obsessing over the movements like city traders during a global crash, and quickly learning a whole new language of medicine.

My brother Joel was given a 1 in 10 chance of survival. But thanks to those miracle workers in Intensive Care, over the next 3 months he slowly crawled his way up from the bottom of his pit. Without the Intensive Care Unit, his chances were zero. And without the advances made over the last 10 years he wouldn't have had a chance.

I sincerely hope you never get called to Intensive Care like I was. But if you ever have call to use it, you will be so glad to live in a country like ours where you really can find the best of emergency treatment, where any thought of the astronomical cost is thrown out the window.

Whilst drifting back from his coma in to consciousness he thought he was on a ferry boat taking him to Utrecht. So when fully recovered - minus a few toes - he decided to do a fundraising event to give something back to the Intensive Care Trust. I am joining him on this cycle of life and hope you will sponsor me for our efforts.

Your support will definitely help people in grave need, and will help advances in treatment that will bring more people back from the brink and keep hearts from breaking.

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