Angelina's Dreams

On Thursday 24th June 2010, 1 year old Angelina Faith Mills undertook the biggest challenge of her life so far. A high risk operation described as a hemispherectomy means that the right hand side of Angelina’s brain has been disconnected in an attempt to alleviate the effects of the rare and incurable Sturge-Weber syndrome.

Angelina’s parents Stephen and Lisa have been by her bedside in Great Ormond Street Hospital where they waited for over 7 hours until they were informed that their little girl had had a successful operation with no complications and they are now seeing her through recovery with the support of the hospital team and have received many touching messages from family, friends and well wishers from across the world.

Two such people who accompanied and supported Stephen and Lisa on the journey to Great Ormond Street and right through Angelina’s operation itself were Violet Millar, Angelina’s aunty and Colleen Marshall, close family friend. They have said that words alone could not express the spectrum of emotions felt during the days in the hospital and all hopes and prayers have been answered in bringing Angelina through this most difficult operational procedure.

Now back in their hometown of Sheringham and waiting on Angelina’s return from hospital, Colleen and Violet are throwing themselves into organising a fundraising event for Angelina to be held at Pinewoods, Sheringham on Saturday 21st August 2010, starts at 7.00p.m – 12.30am.

The event is being publicised throughout July and August and promises to be a very enjoyable evening with a hog roast, salad buffet, selection of desserts, a family disco, raffle and an auction.

This night is to raise money for the ‘Angelina Fund’ and provide sensory room equipment to help her ongoing development and recovery after her brain operation at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital.

Anyone wishing to come along and/or sponsor this event with a donated prize/voucher can call Colleen and Violet on the following numbers: 01263 824410 and 07748 336763.

Tickets are £15 for adults and £7.50 for children for the whole evening’s entertainment.

We all had an absolutely wonderful night. Red Oktober played some superb music, with a special piece which had been written for Angelina. Thank you to Kate for organising such a fantastic event and to the wonderful music of Red Oktober, all who attended and all the businesses who kindly donated prizes.

Together, a fantastic £1,548 was raised, which will be added to Angelina’s fund (towards her sensory equipment).

A charity auction night is being held at the Dunstable Arms in Sheringham, all proceeds will go to Great Ormond Street hospital where Angelina is being treated. Our target is to raise £10,000, so hopefully this night will make a huge contribution towards it.

All families are welcome FREE OF CHARGE, so tell your friends, with live music and a bar for the adults and also bouncy castles for the children.

Throughout the night an auction and raffle will be held. We’ve had a fantastic response from businesses and friends donating prizes. So please come along to help support Great ormond street, it will be a real fun night!!!

If you are unable to attend but would like to buy some raffle tickets which are £1 each, please contact Lisa (Angelina’s mummy) via face book or email massinghamlisa@yahoo.com to arrange to have some reserved for you on the night.

A fund raising event has been organised for Great Ormond Street Hospital on Saturday 15th May with local band ‘Red Oktober’ playing at Gresham Village Hall, hoping to help raise awareness of Sturge-Weber Syndrome. Licensed bar and raffle with prizes donated from local businesses and all proceeds donated to the Angelina Fund.

Doors open at 7pm, tickets available from Keys Estate Agents or Kate or 07917 887738.