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Paris to Geneva Cycle with Discover Adventure · 14 June 2015 to 19 June 2015 ·
I am raising money in memory of Harrison Nicholl. I am friends with Simon and Claire, his parents. This is their story:
Baby Harrison’s legacy of love is helping other families
face tragedy
Baby Harrison lived for just a few days – but his legacy
will carry on with his parents’ inspiring dedication to raising more than
£20,000 to help other families in need.
Harrison Alexander Nicholl was born on
February 5, 2010, and he spent four days being cared for in the Neonatal
Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
before he died on February 8.
Ever since, his parents Claire and Simon Nicholl,
from Norwich, have been determined to keep their son’s memory alive and raise
as much money as they can for NICU and East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices, which
supported them after Harrison’s death. Their little boy had been born weighing
7lb 14oz but he had become distressed during delivery and suffered from lack of
oxygen.
Mrs Nicholl said his brain was too badly damaged for him to survive. She
described the doctors and nurses who cared for her son as heroes and said she
was eternally grateful for how they had looked after Harrison.
We carry on fundraising because we keep his name alive and
it will help other families at a difficult time,” she said. Part of their
fundraising has paid for a £6,000 portable ventilator which gives other
families facing the loss of their babies the chance to spend private moments
with their little ones.
Mrs Nicholl said: “Before Harrison died we spent time
with him in a private room away from other families and babies on NICU. After
Harrison’s death, we wanted to do something for the unit. We decided to fund a
portable ventilator so that other parents can spend as long as possible with their
baby privately away from the ward, at the end of life.”
Thank you for reading Simon and Claire's story and for viewing my fund raising page. Please give generously and I will keep pedalling through terrain I have never faced before, including two mountains and ski resorts!!!
Thanks
Rudi
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