Hair Raising

OK - here is a second attempt at uploading the video as the first one cut off the end

Anyway.... hopefully you'll be able to see this one through googlevid..... some people have had tinypic blocked... oh the joys.

Fingers crossed

THE VIDEO    (missing the last 20 seconds though)

She shaved the bonce and now she's bald!  

The countdown has begun, the clippers are out and ready . . . one nervous Grandma!!!!!

Rather annoyingly the blog that mummy spent hours doing two nights ago with all the pictures of Grandma's old hair styles hasn't worked.   Oh well, I guess it's back to the drawing board on that one.... she hopes to get the pictures up later tonight when I've gone to sleep.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS3cdK4qKNw

Catchas Laters

Oh dear, my sides ache from laughing so much.... check out the pictures below of Grandma!!!  What a perm!  You could rest a dinner plate on that.  You'd never believe it was fashionable then.... think I'll stick to my baldylocks!!

So, the weather has been truly awful and I've been trapped indoors with mummy because of it.  Sorry I haven't posted any messages for a bit as promised but we've been hit really badly by the floods.  Luckily for us we live in a first floor flat but the people below weren't so lucky

Hi there.....
  
Well, after much anticipation......... It is FINALLY READY ................. drum roll please........ The SPONSORSHIP FORM.   

It seems we have quite a few readers out there

So.... I'd like to say....

A BIG HI to my colleagues at Sims Group,

Hello to the Babyworld mums out there that are reading this through my daughter

Hola to the wonderful peeps in the Armed Forces

and howdy to anyone else who's taking a look.

I'm hoping to have a sponsorship form on here shortly so that you can download it, print it, GiftAid it and post it to me with a cheque made payable to Heartlink.

If you're sponsoring & want to add a comment of support to this blog, or even better... a photo of you.... then please email me at hair.raising.idea@hotmail.com with the details & I'll get your comments/photos posted.

Keep watching.....

It would seem that some people aren't able to view the photo album properly so.... I'm hoping that I can make all the pictures show up in this post..... This could involve a huge amount of techy skill so bear with me if it doesn't work!

Get him.... all decked out in his sunnies

Sitting up like a big boy

Play time!

Check out my new hat!

This facemask tastes almost as good as my blueberry pudding!

Get me.... I've learnt to stand up! Mummy's in for it now

And just for good measure.... a couple of pics of me with my little man!

As you can see.... Oscar is really turning into quite a character. Keep checking the blog for more pictures of him.

Also.... keep checking the blog for pictures of MY HAIR THROUGH THE YEARS... I figure if I'm going to shave it all off I may as well record past, present & future to compare!! you'll be gobsmacked by the truly awful perms

This blog is to follow the progress of my latest Hair-brained scheme (excuse the pun!).

I'm using it to raise awareness and money for "Heartlink", the charity that means I still have my grandson. Without their funding of vital medical equipment he might not be with us now.

I'm doing a sponsored head-shave to show my gratitude to them & hopefully raise LOTS of money to help more children like my grandson.

In this blog I have recorded the tremendous journey that my grandson has been through in his short life so far. There are photos below that show just what he had to go through to become the full-of-life character that he is now. In my photo album you can see just what an amazing, and might I add handsome, fella he has become.

So, purpose 1 of this blog is to bring you up to speed on why I want to raise money for Heartlink.

Purpose 2 is to ask you to GIVE GENEROUSLY through sponsorship, then I will shave my noggin to a number one all over.

Purpose 3 will be to post pictures of all those who wish their identities to be known that have supported me in this cause.

and finally..... in the not to distant future....

purpose 4.... will be to show off my new look!

Keep checking this blog for more updates....

Thanks

Lynne

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This is my Grandson, Oscar Frederick when he was first born.

Nobody knew why but Oscar wasn't getting enough Oxygen into his bloodstream. He was put on a ventilator in the SCBU when he was just 30 minutes old.

In this photo Oscar has been transferred away from my daughter, Jeni, who had to stay in Warwick post c-section. He was transferred to Glenfield Hospital in Leicester. The reason he was transferred there was because they had a specialised life support system that he may have needed to go onto called ECMO (Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation). It was at this point that we became aware of Heartlink, the charity that this is all about... they had funded the ECMO machines that Oscar might have needed.

Finally, after THREE long days, my daughter, her husband & their son were reuinted and she finally got to hold him.

Jeni & Christian were able to live in the hospital because Heartlink's fundraising had made it possible to provide family rooms near to the PICU department.

On his sixth day Oscar had surgery to repair his heart. The arteries were the wrong way round & he needed open heart surgery to switch them.

This photo was taken a couple of days after when he'd finally been taken off the main ventilators. He still required high pressure oxygen to help his lungs to function but finally..... he was improving.

After two weeks Oscar was transferred to the children's ward where Mum & Dad were finally able to start caring for him themselves.

Mum & Dad were moved to another family room, again funded by heartlink, which was closer to Oscar. This gave them chance to become a family for real.

Finally, the first picture of my gorgeous grandson without any tubes.

Isn't he beautiful