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1,500 metre Sponsored Swim clocks up £1.02 per metre

Tuesday 12th May 2009

Conner Doherty, aged 10 years, is so keen to help raise funds for the spinal unit treating his sister Lauren, he vowed to swim 80 lengths of his local baths, Harrogate High Swimming Pool, and then did another three lengths for fun. Conner’s challenge raised £1,532.80 for the Sheffield Hospitals Charitable Trust fund for the Princess Royal Spinal Injury Unit at the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield.

Lauren 20 years, the victim of a motoring accident, has been attending the Spinal Injuries Unit for eight months, after being hit by a delivery van while she was on her way home after a night out in August 2008.

Like Superman actor, Christopher Reeve, following his horse riding accident, Lauren is tetraplegic, but following three operations on her heart, leg and to reset a bone in her neck, she can now come off her ventilator for several hours at a time and hopes to eventually manage without it. She is also undergoing treatment to help her regain some use in her right arm.

Lauren’s father, Vincent Doherty, paid tribute to the staff:

“I cannot speak highly enough of the staff and the care Lauren has received. Conner has put his football and hobbies on hold so he can visit Lauren and feels included too. It is a wonderful and caring environment, the staff cannot do enough to help Lauren come to terms with her permanent injuries and recover what movement she can.”

 

 

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