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Get Dad To A Game - Update with sad news p21
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i see skies of blue
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Re: Trying to get my Dad to a game......Can anyone help????
Excellent post, I really hope you get something sorted - Good luck and best wishes :-)
Let us know how you get on
Excellent post, I really hope you get something sorted - Good luck and best wishes :-)
Let us know how you get on
keemcfc
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Re: Trying to get my Dad to a game......Can anyone help????
I don't have a box but get well soon blue!
I don't have a box but get well soon blue!
Re: Trying to get my Dad to a game......Can anyone help????
unfortunatly not in a position to help in regards to box! but if a collection is organised give me a shout would gladly help out!
really hope you get something sorted for you and your dad!!
unfortunatly not in a position to help in regards to box! but if a collection is organised give me a shout would gladly help out!
really hope you get something sorted for you and your dad!!
sweynforkbeard
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Re: Trying to get my Dad to a game......Can anyone help????
You were right to post, Cake. My Dads last 10 years were blighted by MS gradually taking more and more of his physical abilities away - a burden he bore with grace, courage and humour and with never a word of complaint or hint of self pity, so I know what it is like to see a loved one struggle. There are many good people on here and the club has a great track record in situations like this, I'm sure between them a solution will be found. Hope your Dad has a match to remember.
You were right to post, Cake. My Dads last 10 years were blighted by MS gradually taking more and more of his physical abilities away - a burden he bore with grace, courage and humour and with never a word of complaint or hint of self pity, so I know what it is like to see a loved one struggle. There are many good people on here and the club has a great track record in situations like this, I'm sure between them a solution will be found. Hope your Dad has a match to remember.
Re: Trying to get my Dad to a game......Can anyone help????
i understand where you are coming from mate. my mum has suffered with it for the last 3 1/2 years., the change is dramatic and very fast in her case. i'm running the london marathon in april to raise money for MS. hopefully go towards helping other people with the condition and there familys. i raised nearly £800 in 2009 when i did it last but want to beat that this time around. i will be putting a web address on here closer to the time. if anybody would like to sponsor me would be greatly apreciated!<br /><br />-- Thu Sep 02, 2010 3:52 pm --<br /><br />
just one other thing in your request to the club cake! to help me raise money i contacted the club for any merchandise they could donate to me as was doing a raffle at work. they got back to me they gave me 4 tickets to sunderland at home 2008/2009 season and a signed swp photo. which i thought was fantastic gesture i'm sure they will be able to help you out!!!
i really hope he gets to go and see our beloved blues!!
sweynforkbeard said:You were right to post, Cake. My Dads last 10 years were blighted by MS gradually taking more and more of his physical abilities away - a burden he bore with grace, courage and humour and with never a word of complaint or hint of self pity, so I know what it is like to see a loved one struggle. There are many good people on here and the club has a great track record in situations like this, I'm sure between them a solution will be found. Hope your Dad has a match to remember.
i understand where you are coming from mate. my mum has suffered with it for the last 3 1/2 years., the change is dramatic and very fast in her case. i'm running the london marathon in april to raise money for MS. hopefully go towards helping other people with the condition and there familys. i raised nearly £800 in 2009 when i did it last but want to beat that this time around. i will be putting a web address on here closer to the time. if anybody would like to sponsor me would be greatly apreciated!<br /><br />-- Thu Sep 02, 2010 3:52 pm --<br /><br />
Cake said:This is probably the longest of longshots in the history of longshots but hey ho, gotta give it a go for the old fella!
My Dad has been a blue for most of his 62 years on this planet and has spent the last 2 1/2 yrs a very poorly man, resulting in 4 months of intensive chemo followed by 2 bone marrow transplants which entailed a near 4 month in patient stay in virtual solitary (unless he had a immediate family visitor) confinement in Leicester hospital. Throughout all of his treatment he retained such dignity and a strength of character I didn't think possible for somebody to have whilst they were so so poorly and suffering so very much.
His recovery has been very long and agonisingly slow and although he is gradually getting better he is still unable to socialise with large groups of people or be in pubs/restaurants etc because of his lack of any real immune system and therefore the risk of catching an infection which to anyone else might go un-noticed but to him could be extremely dangerous or even fatal. Barring a few friends round the house and two or three trips to sit outside the local pub he hasn't really done anything you would consider interesting in the last 2 years. To look at him you wouldn't know there was much wrong with him but he has been to hell and back, twice over.
He asked his consultant last week if he was able to go to COMS to watch his beloved Blues play. The answer was a resounding and emphatic NO, too many people all squeezed up together in close proximity, the risk of an infection is too great. there was a BUT though - he is able to go if he sits in a 'fancy box' as his consultant told him (can't you just tell it was a woman!!)
So here is was massive ask - does anybody know somebody or have access to a private box they would let us take up a couple of places in? I appreciate this is a massive ask, and moreover a right cheek but it is the only way I can get him to a game for the considerable future or perhaps ever again if a new treatment he is having doesn't work!
I would love more than anything to be able to afford to hire a box for a day but it is just way out of my league, I just don't have that kind of money, although I would be happy to make a modest donation (The price of two tickets to a grade 'A' match - not much but all I can afford) to a Charity - my charity of choice would be The Anthony Nolan Trust as they have helped our family so much, finding Dad not only one but two bone marrow donors and giving him a second chance at life.
I know this is a massive ask and I have agonised for days over wether or not to post this as I don't want anybody to think I am taking the piss or expecting too much, but as the saying goes....if you don't ask you don't get.
He's an amazing Dad and I would like to try and repay him for everything he has done for me over my near 30 years on this planet. I feel something like this would give him a real boost and add some real enjoyment and fun into whats been a very dull and depressing time for him.
Apologies in advance if this is out of order.
Cake
just one other thing in your request to the club cake! to help me raise money i contacted the club for any merchandise they could donate to me as was doing a raffle at work. they got back to me they gave me 4 tickets to sunderland at home 2008/2009 season and a signed swp photo. which i thought was fantastic gesture i'm sure they will be able to help you out!!!
i really hope he gets to go and see our beloved blues!!
Eccles Blue
Well-Known Member
Re: Trying to get my Dad to a game......Can anyone help????
Good luck with your request, I am sure that the club will help out all it can.
Good luck with your request, I am sure that the club will help out all it can.
Re: Trying to get my Dad to a game......Can anyone help????
I have exchange an email or two with the club and they are going to try and sort something out for a match for us. He'd love to get to a game and barring his immune system problems is perfectly able, he just needs a more sterlie environment than the main stands so fingers crossed!!
thomo said:sweynforkbeard said:You were right to post, Cake. My Dads last 10 years were blighted by MS gradually taking more and more of his physical abilities away - a burden he bore with grace, courage and humour and with never a word of complaint or hint of self pity, so I know what it is like to see a loved one struggle. There are many good people on here and the club has a great track record in situations like this, I'm sure between them a solution will be found. Hope your Dad has a match to remember.
i understand where you are coming from mate. my mum has suffered with it for the last 3 1/2 years., the change is dramatic and very fast in her case. i'm running the london marathon in april to raise money for MS. hopefully go towards helping other people with the condition and there familys. i raised nearly £800 in 2009 when i did it last but want to beat that this time around. i will be putting a web address on here closer to the time. if anybody would like to sponsor me would be greatly apreciated!
-- Thu Sep 02, 2010 3:52 pm --
Cake said:This is probably the longest of longshots in the history of longshots but hey ho, gotta give it a go for the old fella!
My Dad has been a blue for most of his 62 years on this planet and has spent the last 2 1/2 yrs a very poorly man, resulting in 4 months of intensive chemo followed by 2 bone marrow transplants which entailed a near 4 month in patient stay in virtual solitary (unless he had a immediate family visitor) confinement in Leicester hospital. Throughout all of his treatment he retained such dignity and a strength of character I didn't think possible for somebody to have whilst they were so so poorly and suffering so very much.
His recovery has been very long and agonisingly slow and although he is gradually getting better he is still unable to socialise with large groups of people or be in pubs/restaurants etc because of his lack of any real immune system and therefore the risk of catching an infection which to anyone else might go un-noticed but to him could be extremely dangerous or even fatal. Barring a few friends round the house and two or three trips to sit outside the local pub he hasn't really done anything you would consider interesting in the last 2 years. To look at him you wouldn't know there was much wrong with him but he has been to hell and back, twice over.
He asked his consultant last week if he was able to go to COMS to watch his beloved Blues play. The answer was a resounding and emphatic NO, too many people all squeezed up together in close proximity, the risk of an infection is too great. there was a BUT though - he is able to go if he sits in a 'fancy box' as his consultant told him (can't you just tell it was a woman!!)
So here is was massive ask - does anybody know somebody or have access to a private box they would let us take up a couple of places in? I appreciate this is a massive ask, and moreover a right cheek but it is the only way I can get him to a game for the considerable future or perhaps ever again if a new treatment he is having doesn't work!
I would love more than anything to be able to afford to hire a box for a day but it is just way out of my league, I just don't have that kind of money, although I would be happy to make a modest donation (The price of two tickets to a grade 'A' match - not much but all I can afford) to a Charity - my charity of choice would be The Anthony Nolan Trust as they have helped our family so much, finding Dad not only one but two bone marrow donors and giving him a second chance at life.
I know this is a massive ask and I have agonised for days over wether or not to post this as I don't want anybody to think I am taking the piss or expecting too much, but as the saying goes....if you don't ask you don't get.
He's an amazing Dad and I would like to try and repay him for everything he has done for me over my near 30 years on this planet. I feel something like this would give him a real boost and add some real enjoyment and fun into whats been a very dull and depressing time for him.
Apologies in advance if this is out of order.
Cake
just one other thing in your request to the club cake! to help me raise money i contacted the club for any merchandise they could donate to me as was doing a raffle at work. they got back to me they gave me 4 tickets to sunderland at home 2008/2009 season and a signed swp photo. which i thought was fantastic gesture i'm sure they will be able to help you out!!!
i really hope he gets to go and see our beloved blues!!
I have exchange an email or two with the club and they are going to try and sort something out for a match for us. He'd love to get to a game and barring his immune system problems is perfectly able, he just needs a more sterlie environment than the main stands so fingers crossed!!
Re: Trying to get my Dad to a game......Can anyone help????
thats great news mate im sure they wil be able to do it. my mums not to bad at the moment in regards to immune system more physical although it does affect the muscle and is doing! so she can still go in the disabillity area's. as she loves to go when she can. used to go alot when she was youger with her dad and brother. wembley cup finals and things as im sure your dad did!!
Cake said:thomo said:i understand where you are coming from mate. my mum has suffered with it for the last 3 1/2 years., the change is dramatic and very fast in her case. i'm running the london marathon in april to raise money for MS. hopefully go towards helping other people with the condition and there familys. i raised nearly £800 in 2009 when i did it last but want to beat that this time around. i will be putting a web address on here closer to the time. if anybody would like to sponsor me would be greatly apreciated!
-- Thu Sep 02, 2010 3:52 pm --
just one other thing in your request to the club cake! to help me raise money i contacted the club for any merchandise they could donate to me as was doing a raffle at work. they got back to me they gave me 4 tickets to sunderland at home 2008/2009 season and a signed swp photo. which i thought was fantastic gesture i'm sure they will be able to help you out!!!
i really hope he gets to go and see our beloved blues!!
I have exchange an email or two with the club and they are going to try and sort something out for a match for us. He'd love to get to a game and barring his immune system problems is perfectly able, he just needs a more sterlie environment than the main stands so fingers crossed!!
thats great news mate im sure they wil be able to do it. my mums not to bad at the moment in regards to immune system more physical although it does affect the muscle and is doing! so she can still go in the disabillity area's. as she loves to go when she can. used to go alot when she was youger with her dad and brother. wembley cup finals and things as im sure your dad did!!
Re: Trying to get my Dad to a game......Can anyone help????
Although we now live away from Manchester, he grew up in Swinton with his brother and cousins, all mad city fans and has some great stories of games they attended in the 60's and 70's. Dad finds it very frustrating that he feels fine in himself but he can't really do anything that risks infection, although he doesn't show it or let on much how he is feeling it must be very disheartning and depressing for him, but as is his style he just gets on with things!
thomo said:Cake said:I have exchange an email or two with the club and they are going to try and sort something out for a match for us. He'd love to get to a game and barring his immune system problems is perfectly able, he just needs a more sterlie environment than the main stands so fingers crossed!!
thats great news mate im sure they wil be able to do it. my mums not to bad at the moment in regards to immune system more physical although it does affect the muscle and is doing! so she can still go in the disabillity area's. as she loves to go when she can. used to go alot when she was youger with her dad and brother. wembley cup finals and things as im sure your dad did!!
Although we now live away from Manchester, he grew up in Swinton with his brother and cousins, all mad city fans and has some great stories of games they attended in the 60's and 70's. Dad finds it very frustrating that he feels fine in himself but he can't really do anything that risks infection, although he doesn't show it or let on much how he is feeling it must be very disheartning and depressing for him, but as is his style he just gets on with things!