I should have got in touch earlier, particularly with the news today regarding Mark King and the defib roll out. I’ll keep it brief here as it is a much longer story of thanks!
I am a Headteacher of a large primary school in Southport.
On the last day of last summer term, as I was getting ready to shout out to 900 parents that 477 children were about to come out of the building…for one last time…let’s have a round of applause for our Year 6 leavers!!!
I collapsed, my heart had stopped.
Mark had visited the school years before and we had a defib installed. The staff were always highly trained.
The previous term the children had a fundraiser for 4 more defibs to spread around the school.
It was one of these that saved my life…along with my staff, my pupils, the surgeons and the NHS…I also owe my life to Oliver and the work of Mark.
I go back to work in a few weeks- I’ve avoided any media until now to recover- it took the footballer 8 months before his first match…it’s taken me just 6 months to make the decision to return.
As I say, it’s a longer story but I wanted to send out my first message of thanks today.I hope to become part of the training message that now needs to go out to all schools- it’s easy!
I’ll be in touch and am happy to contribute where I can with whatever message is needed. I wasn’t expecting to do this message this morning as it’s a much longer and dramatic story, so I’ll just leave it now with …. thank you!
Cheers
Nick
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