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Inspired by her son’s battle against a rare genetic disorder, Nicola Bearman is determined to raise this staggering sum for Great Ormond Street Hospital mission
Nicola at home with her three-year-old son Oscar
Dark clouds sometimes, just sometimes, have silver linings. It certainly wouldn’t in a million years be any mother’s wish to have her baby son endure seven-hour operations, or suffer from a rare genetic disorder that affects the face and skull, impacting on not only a child’s appearance, but also their breathing, hearing and eyesight.
But Nicola Bearman’s adorable three-year-old son Oscar, who was born with Crouzon syndrome, is likely to discover when he’s a bit older that the health challenges he has suffered from birth have (in a not-so-roundabout way) inspired millions of pounds to be raised for Great Ormond Street Hospital, through one of the most ingenious – and probably most enjoyable – fundraising events ever, dreamed up by global hair star John Frieda. But more of that later.
It is, of course, every parent’s fervent hope that their child won’t ever need the world-class medical care that this famous hospital can offer. It certainly never occurred to Nicola that, for the years after Oscar’s birth, Great Ormond Street would become a second home. Like most expectant parents, Nicola and her husband Christian were hugely excited about the future with a new baby. The delivery itself (at St Thomas’s Hospital in London), though, was gruelling: ‘A 42-hour labour, helium, meconium inhalation, forceps, foetal distress, cord around the neck – anything that could go wrong did go wrong,’ recalls 32-year-old Nicola, countering the myth that mothers forget all about birth agonies once their baby has safely arrived….Continue reading
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