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Weʼve raised £37,701 to Buy a bionic arm and legs for Mark Camamile who lost both legs and his arm from septicemia.
- Nottingham, United Kingdom
- Funded on Tuesday, 23rd August 2016
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Story
Mark Camamile was a perfectly healthy family man in his early thirties, married to Wendy with two children 15 and 7. Last October he became ill and was admitted to QMC Nottingham on 1st October 2015, where he was diagnosed with pneumonia. He passed out and woke later in hospital in Birmingham to find he had contracted Septacemia and had lost both legs and an arm through amputation and other body tissue.
My partner Richard who worked alongside Mark (Mark was a brilliant mechanic/master technician at Sytner Nottingham) found out about this recently when being admitted himself for emergency surgery and ending up on a ward along side Mark. He was so moved by Marks situation that he has taken it upon himself to raise funding to buy Mark a Bionic Arm at a cost of £27k unavailable on the NHS but which will give him back some independence and help him live his life as a family man with his wife and children.
After an amazing start and so much support, we reached the target for his arm within a week and have now increased the target amount to try and raise enough for legs too.
Thank you all xx
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- 8 years ago
Heidi Bedson
8 years agoMassive thank you to everyone . We are still raising funds target had been reached. On behalf of Mark and his family THANK YOU ALL xx
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- 8 years ago
Heidi Bedson
8 years agoHi everyone, one day left to go!!! We have an update, from the fun day that was held and other bits and bobs we have raised around another £6000 that will be added to this figure. To get the bionic limbs. So a massive thank you to everyone involved and for all the truly generous donations. This was only possible because of you all. THANK YOU ❤️❤️❤️
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- 8 years ago
Heidi Bedson
8 years agoThanks to everyone so far, the donations are still coming and there are some lovely things people are doing to help. Iv read all your comments. Thank you so very much every bit means so much.
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- 8 years ago
Heidi Bedson
8 years agoTarget now increased as we are aiming to get Mark his legs too. Again massive thank you to all for the help and support and generous donations.
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Anonymous
Aug 23, 2016
Sounds like a great bloke.
£10.00
Anonymous
Aug 23, 2016
£50.00
Janet & Peter Taylor
Aug 23, 2016
From one Engineering family to another. Good luck to you all. Your story makes us count our blessings.
£100.00
Zoe Davidson
Aug 22, 2016
Wish it was more, wishing you all the best x
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Anonymous
Aug 22, 2016
£3.00
Katie Howarth
Aug 21, 2016
£20.00
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Aug 19, 2016
£25.00
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Heidi Bedson
Nottingham, United Kingdom
My name is Heidi and I have set this up on behalf of my partner Richard who recently spent time in hospital alongside Mark, they had been friends and colleagues previously, and he was so moved by what happened that he made a promise to Mark to help raise funding for his new arm.