CLAIRE FERNANDEZ

Kick 4 Rick Fundraising Page

Fundraising for The Wessex Neurological Centre Trust

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Thanks for visiting the Kick 4 Rick fundraising page.

We would like to raise money for the Wessex Neurological Intensive Care Ward in Southampton General Hospital who did such an excellent job caring for Ricky in 2007 for 3 months after a serious road traffic accident. Ricky sustained horrific injuries including severe head injury, broken vertebrae, punctured lung, broken leg to name but a few. Ricky would not have pulled through and be making such a miraculous recovery if it wasn't for the staffs expertise and specialised equipment on the Ward.

With this in mind we are trying to raise money to assist the funding of a Paediatric Video-Telemetry Suite which will be used to assess children with severe Epilepsy. We will be holding a dinner dance at Southampton Football Club on Saturday 21st March 2009 to help towards the funding of this Suite (details to follow on Kick4Rick website www.kick4rick.com).

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About the charity

The Wessex Neurological Centre Trust

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The Wessex Neurological Centre serves a population of 3 million throughout central southern England & the Channel Islands. Having successfully raised £80,000 to provide a dedicated 'critical care' ambulance, and £145,000 to fund the creation of a Paediatric Video-Telemetry Suite (used to assess children with severe Epilepsy as to their suitability for life-changing corrective surgery), our latest appeal aims to raise a further £200,000 for our most ambitious project to date - the Fluorescence Enhanced Neurosurgery Appeal. Surgeons at the Centre perform vascular neurosurgery (to repair aneurysms, haemorrhages and the like), on hundreds of patients each year. By equipping one of the Centre's operating theatres with a new, state-of-the-art operating microscope fitted with the FL800 Fluorescence system, most of these patients will benefit. Fluorescence Enhanced Neurosurgery enables surgeons to clearly visualise blood-flow in adjacent brain tissue, reducing the possibility of either a recurrence of the bleed, or of a post-operative stroke. For further details, please visit www.smile4rich.co.uk