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| Our Address: |
| Charlies Thankyou |
| Charlie's Room |
| 24 Goosey Lane |
| Weston super Mare, North somerset |
| BS22 7XA |
| Tel: 07534992168 |
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If you would like to donate money to the Charlie's Thankyou Fund please click on the 'Make a donation' button below and you will be transferred to a secure Paypal donation page specially created for our fund.
Please note that you do NOT need to have a Paypal account in order to make a donation. All you need to do is click on the 'Continue' link underneath the 'Don't have a Paypal account?' section and you will be able to enter your credit card details in the subsequent page.
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| | Donate | | | | Online donation please click above or send any donation by cheque to us paid to Charlie’s Thank You with your name and address and if you would like it to go to any equipment or a general pot. The money raised is for making awareness of Broncholisits and for equipment to be bought direct for the wards. This way you can choose what you want your money to buy. The nurses have to buy their own pens for example, the all in one Bic pens with different colours are the best, they need this to colour the charts, so something as simple as this will still help. It goes without saying that the Hot Cot beds are vital which is at the top end of the prices.
If you are concerned about an illness and want to know more please use our useful links towards the top right. If its not there please e-mail us. Please seek medical advice for more details
Intensive care units are scary but understanding them will help you. The equipment can seem very frightening at first. To help understand what they do we have tried to explain some but please do not quote us on this.
A Ventilator, which needs a tube in the mouth or nose into the windpipe, This helps you breathe, it pushes air in and out. As a condition improves you can be weaned off the ventilator, sometimes a mask is used like the one Charlie had and maybe have a cpap like the one Charlie’s got and then onto a vaportherm like Charlie had and finally a oxygen head box or nasal prongs. Infusion pumps, giving drugs and fluids to patients through "drips" in the veins. Nasogastric tube, a tube in the nose ( Charlie’s was green ) it goes to the stomach for feeding. Monitors, normally beside the bed and sometimes linked to a central control desk, these measure and record blood pressure, oxygen levels ( sats ) and heart / pulse rate ( ECG ) connected various leads. They go off a lot and scare you like mad, they do this if you go outside normal ranges and most of the time it draws attention of the nurse to check. | | | |
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