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I would be dead….

Both my pregnancies have resulted in me being placed in a wheelchair and wheeled into an operating theatre to have my children removed from my tummy via the sunroof.  They were never traveling down the birth canal, with a shadow of a doubt without assistance from a team of midwives I would have died giving birth to my beautiful babies.

My youngest daughter suffered her first epileptic seizure in January this year, I thought she was going to die, for three agonising minutes my world stop turning and I couldn’t breathe.  I called an ambulance and the health service helped me.  Through the work of various GP’s, ambulance crews, and some lovely nurses her seizures are almost under control and she will be able to live a life with epilepsy that is hopefully not affected by epilepsy.

All my children have been immunised against disease, as a mother I have taken all precautions available to me to ensure they live long healthy lives.

Why am I telling you this? 

Because children are dying, they are dying of things that we know how to cure, they are dying for lack of clean water and food, they are dying for no reason.  They are dying because they don’t have access to a health service. Half of the 8 million children who die each year are in Africa, yet Africa has only 3% of the world’s doctors, nurses and midwives.   For more details read about this on Save the Children’s page

To attempt to stop this miserable waste of life just sign a simple petition online to get David Cameron to look at ways to send more support to Africa for health workers.  They need it

I am not asking for money but merely a moment of your time. If you are a blogger then blog about this, use your voice and link up with Gemma and Michelle and make a difference. If you are a reader on twitter or facebook then please retweet and repost on your facebook profile, if you are member of my family or lucky enough to be married to me please sign the petition and post it on your social networks.

At the very bloody least just sign the petition to put an end to the health worker crisis: HERE

Then enjoy the feeling of making a difference and being a better person.

Thanks

 

 

Comments

  1. Mammasaurus says

    September 19, 2011 at 9:08 pm

    Very well said x

    Reply
    • janeblackmore says

      September 19, 2011 at 9:13 pm

      Thanks my lovely x

      Reply
  2. helloitsgemma says

    September 19, 2011 at 9:24 pm

    you are just perfect and yet again you have made me cry!
    thank you XXX

    Reply
    • janeblackmore says

      September 20, 2011 at 7:34 am

      Awwww

      Reply
  3. NotMyYearOff says

    September 20, 2011 at 6:16 am

    Great post and great cause.

    Reply
    • janeblackmore says

      September 20, 2011 at 7:35 am

      Ta and yes it is.

      Reply
  4. Liz Fielding (@lizfielding) says

    September 20, 2011 at 6:45 am

    Great post, Jane. I saw an incredibly touching excavation on one of those archaeology programmes – a skeleton of a woman who had died giving birth to triplets. It’s a frightening thing, no doubt. (From another sunroof Mum)

    Reply
    • janeblackmore says

      September 20, 2011 at 7:35 am

      Thanks liz x

      Reply
  5. The Mad House says

    September 20, 2011 at 7:19 am

    Both mine born by section, Maxi a crash section and Mini a scheduled, although not wanted one

    Reply
    • janeblackmore says

      September 20, 2011 at 7:38 am

      Can you imagine though all the conversations we have about birth plans, and do we want drugs, don’t we? I can’t even begin to wonder how I would feel pregnant and hoping a midwife was free. Not to mention losing a child to a curable illness. It is an odd world we live in.

      Reply
  6. Blue Sky says

    September 20, 2011 at 7:20 am

    It’s only when you step back and remember how many times our healthworkers have saved our lives that you realise how lucky we all are x

    Reply
    • janeblackmore says

      September 20, 2011 at 7:39 am

      Exactly the NHS takes some stick, but it is there.

      Reply
  7. Love In The Nest says

    September 20, 2011 at 12:33 pm

    Excellent, wonderfully written post. x

    Reply
    • janeblackmore says

      September 20, 2011 at 1:12 pm

      Thanks x

      Reply
  8. Honest Mum says

    September 20, 2011 at 12:44 pm

    Really moving post. Have signed. Thanks for sharing.

    Reply
    • janeblackmore says

      September 20, 2011 at 1:14 pm

      Thanks x x

      Reply
  9. SAHMlovingit says

    September 20, 2011 at 6:29 pm

    Superb post Jane – just superb. That is all x

    Reply
    • janeblackmore says

      September 21, 2011 at 9:38 pm

      thanks x x x

      Reply
  10. Chris Mosler says

    September 23, 2011 at 1:01 pm

    Thank you Jane, you are bloody marvellous. x

    Reply
    • janeblackmore says

      September 23, 2011 at 4:10 pm

      in comparison to you i feel inferior! massively! x

      Reply

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