Today’s blog has been prepared by the guys running the incredible Walk with Shay campaign, and has been approved by Shay’s family. Take a moment to read over it.
As Celtic fans, we are incredibly lucky that we have people doing good things in our name, people who make it easy for us to get involved in changing a life. We should be grateful we can play a small part in making a profound difference to a young life.
Here’s the article:
Many of you will already be aware of Shay McGinlay, the little 3-year-old Bhoy from Livingston who has Cerebral Palsy; here is Shay’s story:
“Hello, my name is Shay my story begins when I was born at 42 weeks weighing a healthy 7lb11oz. When I was born I was starved from oxygen for 40 minutes which led to me being brain damaged. I was transferred to neonatal intensive care unit at Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh where I was cooled with a cooling treatment to reduce swelling to my brain.
Hours and days passed that my mummy & daddy worried. They were told that I might not survive and to expect the worst. I spent 3 weeks in intensive care before being transferred back to St John’s children’s ward.
I stayed in the children’s ward for 7 weeks where I got stronger and into a stable routine to go home. I was discharged on 24th of August 2013 and got to go home with my mummy and daddy. I proved all the doctors wrong.
I have grown stronger since I have been home but I sometimes struggle to gain weight and have to have special high calorie milk to make sure I gain enough weight. I suffer from developmental delay which means I can’t sit up, talk, walk or play like other kids my age can. I receive physiotherapy and speech and language therapy due to my evolving quadriplegic cerebral palsy. I also suffer from epilepsy and suffer from seizures.
I am now in need of further treatment for my cerebral palsy which is not available on the NHS. Me and my mummy and daddy would like to ask for your continued support to help us raise funds for my therapy. This costs around £6000 per year and could help me eat, sit up and maybe even walk on my own in the future. I would love to be able to do these things and play with all my cousins and get to achieve as much as I can from living life with cerebral palsy…
A number of CQNers and friends have been working tirelessly since September 2014 to help raise money to support my ABR therapy via the sale of CQN badges and the fabulous Last Man Standing competition, which many of you I know have taken part, as well as other fundraising initiatives and donations. These efforts have raised a magnificent £10,500 towards my treatment.
Together with own family and friends fundraising, we have now raised enough to pay for the first two years’ treatment, and partially fund the third year’s treatment. I cannot thank you enough for helping me get this far.
The treatment to date has been very beneficial and this has helped to hold my head up better and develop part of a neck, but this is a very slow process. Please see my picture below.
I am also eating and sleeping better, but recently l gave my parents a wee scare on holiday in Tenerife, and had a seizure, ending up in hospital for a couple of days. I had not had a seizure for two years. Luckily thanks to the kind doctors and nurses I was ok and managed to get home on time. Hospital food is rubbish in Spain too :-)
The third year’s treatment is due to commence in November 2016, and this is when I get my next assessment. My mum and dad is also looking into alternative treatment and equipment that may be required to help give me achieve a better way of life and allow me to progress. One day, I hope to walk. Thank you for walking with me so far!”
The campaign to support Shay has now been consolidated and formalised into a campaign called “WalkWithShay”.
The WalkWithShay campaign was launched two weeks ago on twitter and now has 867 followers. You can follow us @walkwithshay. We can also be contacted by email at above- walkwithshay@yahoo.com . We will shortly set up a facebook page and will also keep you up to date across the football blogs, including CQN.
We are in the process of setting up a bank account. We also have a crowdfunding account set up to allow us to accept credit card and overseas payments. You can also make normal donations to this account until the bank account is set up.
The campaign team have some genuinely unique Celtic memorabilia and these items will either be raffled or put to a suitable event to be auctioned. The team have managed to achieve the amazing feat of getting the last 11 Celtic Club Captains to sign 2 Tops with 1 of these being made available via a raffle (launch date of the raffle still to be announced) so that all supporters will have the opportunity to own such a unique item. These tops span 53 years of Celtic history.
In addition, a very kind CQNer has drawn all club captains in a fantastic black and white drawing. You will therefore all get the chance to purchase a print of this very special drawing in time for Christmas.
Please follow @walkwithshay for all updates and news.
If you want to help us by donating a prize, running an event or simply wishing us well or making a donation, then drop us an email at walkwithshay@yahoo.com Please also do not forget that you can also join in on our Last Man Standing competition which will continue to support Shay. LMS9 starts in a few weeks’ time (once LMS8 is won!). Watch this space on CQN and twitter for further announcements.
Thank you and please help share our campaign.
The Walkwithshay Campaign Team
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Morning spent listening to Leonard Cohen 45s and juicing kilos and kilos of pomegranates .. Last 45 the woman from Padova placed on the deck was the rather good – Democracy is Coming To The USA . An apt choon for these dark times .A one sided 7 ” on CBS Spain.. Bought second hand in a flea market in Algeciras.
SOUTH OF TUNIS:
I like to read too, (all sides of a story, every story I engage) it is fast becoming a forgotten art.
CQN… Not Lazy Journalism.
Closing Time
Goodbye Leonard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-0lV5qs1Qw&list=PLwjD81rPeQqXrMf0u_3Qk5Ye4X_2ddQjQ&index=17
Remember to sign,please.
https://www.change.org/p/the-scottish-football-association-the-sfa-has-to-respond-to-allegations-of-impropriety-concerning-the-issue-of-uefa-licences?
Great Mexican song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD5BhhF7yiQ
How far am I from the land Where I was born Immense homesickness Invades my thought.
South of Tunis:
When members of the Senate Internal Security sub committee asked Elizabeth Bentley, who was a courier between White and Soviet agents, whether she knew of a similar “Morgenthau Plan” for the Far East, she gave the following testimony:
Miss Bentley: No. The only Morgenthau Plan I knew anything about was the German one.
Senator Eastland: Did you know who drew that plan?
Miss Bentley: [It was] Due to Mr. White’s influence, to push the devastation of Germany because that was what the Russians wanted.
Senator Ferguson: That was what the Communists wanted? Miss Bentley: Definitely, Moscow wanted them [German factories] completely razed because then they would be of no help to the allies.
Mr. Morris: You say that Harry Dexter White worked on that?
Miss Bentley: And on our instructions he pushed hard. /6
When J. Edgar Hoover testified before the Subcommittee on November 17, 1953, he affirmed this testimony:
All information furnished by Miss Bentley, which was susceptible to check has proven to be correct. She had been subjected to the most searching of cross-examinations; her testimony has been evaluated by juries and reviews by the courts and has been found to be accurate.
Mr. Hoover continued:
Miss Bentley’s account of White’s activities was later corroborated by Whittaker Chambers; and the documents in White’s own handwriting, concerning which there can be no dispute, lend credibility to the information previously reported on White.
South of Tunis.
Just because nobody is interested doesn’t mean the Morgenthau Plan didn’t happen.
Or did it?
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
When you see it listed like that it speaks for itself.He’s his fathers son make no mistake about that.
We expect hypocrisy in politics, that’s the norm but this man has pushed the envelop just about as far as you can and for me beyond the bounds of basic decency but as Irvine Welsh succinctly said people are desperate for change and these votes Trump/Brexit are a result of 30 years of crisis.So no mudslinging at the voters from me but certainly a unsurprised stunnedness at the end of it all that such a man could rise to the position of President of The Untied States. And again in my opinion the dumbing down of all things is now complete.
Judging by some on here they’ll be selling Trump wigs up the Gallowgate and the Green Brigade will be immortalising him in song before you know it.
Sad to see for some that this is what CQN has become in parts a support site for a man so classless, vulgar and boorish as to appear to be an Archetypal hun..
Things you thought you’d never live to see CSC
HH
new article posted.
Whoopeee !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
Cluj supporting courier man has just delivered this –
12 ” – Well Pleased And Satisfied -Open the Gates Bobby Boy ( Total Sounds )- Reissue
Missed out on the original pressing when it was released and was always outbid for it on the few occasions it surfaced on the second hand market .. Bought from the the lovely people at Honest Jons in Ladbroke Grove . A top choon . rougher than rough .Highly recommended.
Will blast it out after lunch and then it’s wash the dogs in the sea time . A sunny low 20s day -way down south.
McJay
No, pal.
Not striking miners.
Punters drafted in attempting to prevent miners who wanted to work from working .
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
I have a workmate who was there that day, on a charity food drop off. He saw no non miners pretending they were miners, what he did see was a police charge that triggered a response from the miners and a cut and paste job on the national news that completely distorted the event. You get your information from where, Thatchers memoirs?
STARRYPLOUGH
Maybe it has all been a dastardly plan by The Elite.
Pick the two most disreputable and disliked candidates possible,one an insider,another who is quite the opposite.
Next election,The People are worse off and desperate for the status quo.
Makes as much sense as any other theory on the subject.
STAIRHEEDRAMMY
All 95 who were charged and brought to court gave their occupation as “Miner”
All 95 were,of course,cleared. Even The Establishment knew who had crossed the line.
KITALBA,
Sorry I did type out a long post earlier, but my tablets batteries gave up just as I was about to post it.
I’ll need to put this back on charge asap, but just to say sorry if I sent out the wrong message earlier, I am aware that not all Germans were Nazis.
I didn’t mean to imply otherwise .
As for your friend MACJAR, I shall just be ignoring anything he posts, as I have in face to face situations over the years had arguments with right wing people, whom I either feel sorry for or stick the heid oan !
HH
Lady Lunchalot 15:10 @ Lingfield Park.
Midnight prayer
1-50 Cheltenham
For anyone interested. The rain that’s fell will be appreciated by Sneaking Budge in the 2-15 Uttoxeter. Stable expect him to run well. 5/1 currently.
GL
4.05pm Cheltenham
Nap – Brillaire Momento
Hit the bar yesterday a wee £1 Yankee & £5 accie both teams to score and team to win France, Denmark, Czech Rep and……Slovakia 4-0. Would have helped towards the bill for Santa, at least a couple of Bob to lose the day……
Best of luck to all
GFTB
Outback Traveller in 12.50 at Lingfield
Morning…A loud wan VINTAGE VINNIE 2.25 Chelts.
Good luck.
Good day and good luck.
Cheltenham 3.00
Allysson Monterg
Beauboreen 14,50 Utt
Happy Punting
HH
14:25 @ Cheltenham – Frodon – NAP!
Good luck everybody.
Irish Roe 4:05 Cheltenham, good luck.
Lads,
naps on here today please…
Cheers, fleagle1888
Wetherby 205 Shadows Lenghten
Good luck everyone
Morning all
Koshari 13.00 Naas
Good luck
Allyson Monterg
Chelt 3.00
Cannae get beat
Catchthemoonlight 3.25 Uttoxeter
Good Luck to all
HH
Nap : Thistlecrack (Cheltenham 1:15)
As De Mee 2.25 Cheltenham.
Good luck everyone.
As de mee 225 Cheltenham for me as well please , good luck all especially cathal above lol
15:35 Cheltenham
Traditional Dancer
HH.
Turban
2:15. Uttoxeter.
Good luck
As De Mee, 2.25 Cheltenham.
Diamond Rock 1415 Uttoxeter
Fingal bay 3.00 Cheltenham
Frodon
2.25 Cheltenham
HH
SUPREME VINNIE 3:00 Cheltenham
Regards & Hail Hail
TBM