Clacton: Generous readers help little Lucy (From Gazette)

Clacton: Generous readers help little Lucy

9:49am Tuesday 7th August 2007 in

• Skip social links
• Print
• Email
•  

Relieved mum Lindsey Chadwick can now afford a vital machine for her disabled daughter.

Last week, the Gazette revealed how a saturation monitor was desperately needed to keep an eye on four-year-old Lucy's oxygen levels.

The youngster has a rare chromosomal condition called 2q24 deletion, and can suffer up to 40 fits in a day when her oxygen drops.

At the moment, Mrs Chadwick has to stay up for much of the night with Lucy, and needed the machine to alert her if her levels dropped dangerously - so that she could finally get some sleep herself.

Since the article, donations have come flooding in, with £450 coming from one benefactor alone.

"Overwhelmed doesn't even come close," said Mrs Chadwick, of Thoroughgood Road, Clacton.

"I can't believe people's generosity."

• If you would like to offer your support to Mrs Chadwick, call her on 01255 222157, or e-mail lindseychadwick@tiscali.co.uk