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Support Jason in his recovery from a Stroke
Windsor, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Aim
Support Jason and Windsor Hoppy whilst Jason recovers from his stroke
Hi. Dave here.
September and October have been absolutely awful for our family, as many of you know.
So first things first. JASON IS FINE! Ish. If you've come straight here, worry not. Recovery is in progress. But it's going to take quite some time.
I'll do my best to remember the timeline here.
At the beginning of September, Jason had to go off on emergency sick with severe diziness, nausea and migranes as well as a severe pain in the root of his spine, at the top and back of his neck.
He went to the Docs, got sent away with a migrane and had the next 7 days off.
He went back, because things got no better. And even though symptoms were very persistent and he still could barely walk letalone work, he was sent away with no referral, scans or escalation.
We now believe he'd had a TIA (a minor stroke) already at that point, which is something we want to understand further, and likely would have had some blood clots still in his system, but he was not scanned before his travel.
Either way: The following week, with 'just' a migrane - Jason went on his scheduled holiday to the South of France - flying out from Luton.
7 days into that holiday, and now 20 or so days from the initial symptoms, he woke up finding it severely challenging to speak or move, and had to get taken to hospital in France.
Scans - he was finally checked properly - showed significant blood clots in his left cerebellum and the results - once he was stabilised and brought round - were that of a significant stroke.
A stroke that quite likely would not have happened if he got the triage and care he needed here in the first instance. So that's something we're considering how to process. In the short term we are only focused on recovery
It took another 3 weeks to get insurance paperwork sorted and for him to be stable enough to be transferred. Which takes us up to Monday the 27th October when he finally got transferred home, in quite the chariot...
Getting bluelit from Orleans to Windsor wasn't on anyone's bingo cards this year.
A week home - and things are still progressing well. We all met up for a meal on the 2nd November and Jason has also been over to the brewery now (dropped off and driven home of course) to meet up with some people, but recovery from here will be a slow progress.
In short, whilst "he's fine" is the headline, after what has been 8 weeks from hell for us all at time of writing, it's going to be a case of playing by ear if he can return to full duties at all and if he can, it won't be soon. Likely the new year at the earliest.
So - and I hate this. But. Can you help?
We kept Jason on full contractual pay for the first 7 weeks, but have then had to drop him to SSP because the company just can't weather the extra shifts, shift cover, and keep paying him full whack. We don't have it. In case you haven't seen, hospitality isn't exactly wonderful right now.
I'm setting up this simple short crowdfunder just to make sure we can continue to pay him full pay if at all possible into the new year and also cover the extra staffing required to keep us going in the meantime.
Obviously, it's Jason. He's not getting replaced. It's Jason. So we have to work through this.
If you can help, know that it's going to him personally, or to pay staff so that his job remains secure. Nothing else. Any surplus after the team and him have been looked after will be donated to a relevant charity next year - if you have anyone in mind who could use that support please let us know.
So that's the ask. And it's horrible, but that's what it is.
Thanks for reading...
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