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I forgot to mention, A Boy Called George is posted on authonomy and if you'd like to read it you can sign up as a reader and leave a comment. If you think it deserves to be published, you can add it to your bookshelf (back it)
Please pop over and take a look it has over 600 positive comments now and very close to the editors desk for an editorial review.
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Thank you. I'm sure I'll get used to blogging eventually :o)
Friday, 27 November 2009
Hi
Hi,
My name is Sue Edwards.
I've created this blog to talk about my work in progress A Boy Called George and of course other children that have suffered birth injury.
George was born 9.2.96 in Guy's hospital London.
You could say he came into the world with a bang. Twenty minutes before he was born the hospital shook, we heard sirens and saw the blue flashing lights for miles around. We found out soon after that Canary Wharf had been blown up by an IRA Bomb. So you may remember that day well.
Not a good start in life! I'm not sure if the hospital had been put on red alert, but the midwife in charge of George's delivery should have sought help sooner. He was clearly in distress but despite my concern for my Daughter, Claire and her unborn child, they refused to take my plea seriously. The outcome was: He has cerebral palsy and is almost profoundly deaf. The hospital lost all trace of birth records (conveniently) which is apparently a done thing when negligence is suspected or implied.
The book that I'm writing will take some of you on a familiar journey. Through initial disbelief, acceptance and very much later the long battle for compensation that never happened. I hope for others, it will be educational and if I can prevent just one family from suffering the same trauma, then my effort will not be wasted.
Please contact me with your stories. I hope you will enjoy reading about George.
Sue
My name is Sue Edwards.
I've created this blog to talk about my work in progress A Boy Called George and of course other children that have suffered birth injury.
George was born 9.2.96 in Guy's hospital London.
You could say he came into the world with a bang. Twenty minutes before he was born the hospital shook, we heard sirens and saw the blue flashing lights for miles around. We found out soon after that Canary Wharf had been blown up by an IRA Bomb. So you may remember that day well.
Not a good start in life! I'm not sure if the hospital had been put on red alert, but the midwife in charge of George's delivery should have sought help sooner. He was clearly in distress but despite my concern for my Daughter, Claire and her unborn child, they refused to take my plea seriously. The outcome was: He has cerebral palsy and is almost profoundly deaf. The hospital lost all trace of birth records (conveniently) which is apparently a done thing when negligence is suspected or implied.
The book that I'm writing will take some of you on a familiar journey. Through initial disbelief, acceptance and very much later the long battle for compensation that never happened. I hope for others, it will be educational and if I can prevent just one family from suffering the same trauma, then my effort will not be wasted.
Please contact me with your stories. I hope you will enjoy reading about George.
Sue
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