How to Help
Over the months I have seen how much help has been given to me. Getting my
muscles in tone, then starting to walk.
Next using my new leg and learning all
the techniques of using it.
How to adapt the home to accommodate my wheelchair and artificial leg.
Without the help, love and care of the Derby Amputee Rehabilitation Clinic it would have been so much harder, and so I wondered how I could give back something.
The first thing I did was get on the Local Radio Derby on the 1st anniversary of the amputation and share about the website and what I had been through. It gave me an opportunity to tell others about how the Amputee Clinic had helped me get back on my own two feet.
Next we decided, Cedric & I, to give a fund raising dinner for our friends. We invited them along, meal paid for and asked two members of the clinic to come along and share about the work that they did. We also included two other amputees and their partners so that at the meal table they could share on a one-to-one basis about what it meant. One of these, Ruth and husband Barry, organised a raffle which they took around the whole restaurant and raised £65. After the meal, Karen and Colin did a slide show and explained about ARC and they also passed around prosthetic limbs so that people could touch and feel, and understand better what they are. We then passed around collection envelopes for donations which raised a further £534. This was rounded up by £1 to make a total of £600 for the work of the clinic and was used to purchase new 'wobble boards' and 'rubber hedgehogs' that allow amputees to learn to balance and walk over uneven terrain. The envelopes were covered by gift aid to enable tax to be claimed back against the donation.
Some friends from the Amputee Club decided to help
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Golden wedding
anniversary donations Roy
and Beryl raised £300 for the amputee rehab centre by asking for donations
instead of gifts for their golden wedding anniversary.
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This article appeared in the Derby Evening Telegraph on Tuesday 2nd October 2007 to raise awareness.
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This article appeared in the December issue of the Hospital News Sheet
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Dinner
Party delight Cedric
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Presentation at Derby Amputee Rehabilitation Clinic - 1st October 2007
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How can you help if you are an amputee,
- Support those who have helped you
- Encourage others who are new amputees
- Be positive and smile
- Publicise what is happening