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Updated on Nov 6th 2011 at 9:14 PM from the JustGiving API
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<p>Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.</p> <p><span><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Yorkhill</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Hospital is a specialist children's hospital in Glasgow (*), who perform lifesaving treatment on children and babies everyday. Without such specialist care many children would face a very different future.</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p> <div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(*Yorkhill treats sick children from all over Scotland and NE England)<em>.</em></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Gavin + Ruth proudly announced the birth of their wee girl Erin Rodger on 20th April 2010. Erin has faced some difficult challenges after being born with a rare chromosome deletion (22Q11.2). This caused congenital heart disease (including 5 separate anomalies/defects) and required open heart surgery at just 6 days old and a throat operation 1 week later.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thanks to the team of heart and throat surgeons, doctors and nurses Erin is 1 year old. She is progressing very well at home with regular check ups at Yorkhill.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">We have decided to raise money for the Yorkhill Childrens Foundation! </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gavin Rodger will climb Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest freestanding mountain in the world @ 5896m in August 2011. He will take the Machame Route and the trek will take 10 days.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">Steve Spence will trek across Costa Rica (coast to coast) in November 2011 and this tough expedition will take 12days.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: small;">Any donations would be greatly appreciated - these will be donated to the Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and Ward 5A (Cardiac Ward) 50:50.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thanks - Gavin, Ruth, Steve and wee Erin!</span></span></p> </div> <div> <div> <div><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> </span>So please dig deep and donate now.</div> </div> </div> <p> </p>