Fundraising and Research Projects

Apart from just raising awareness, the other part of the Well A.R.D group is dedicated to fundraising. So I thought todays post I would concentrate on this and tell you all about the research program that the money will be donated to 🙂

I did a tonne of research over about 6 months, trying to find a project in the UK that focuses on Adhesions/Adhesion Related Disorder. This turned out to be a lot harder than I ever expected, but then it just goes to show WHY there is such a lack of knowledge on the subject! I emailed every hospital I could find, contacted the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, even emailed the Health Minister and not one of them could provide me with any information of such a thing. In the end it actually turned out that the simplest contact was to be the most useful! I emailed my own consultant, Mr Guyer, at the Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth and explained what I was looking for. He gave me the contact information for a lady called Ying Cheong, who was previously a  trainee of his. She had gone on to work at the Fertility Unit at the Princess Anne Hospital in Southampton. She had become a Consultant in Obs and Gynae, as well as Senior Lecturer in the same subject. She was now leading a research program at the hospital into Adhesions.

I contacted her straight away to explain what we were trying to do and to see if she would be interested in getting involved, or at least letting us make donations.
She was so lovely!! and more importantly willing to help in any way she could, as well as being more than grateful to accept any donations that we wanted to make.

She then went on to send me the full outline of the research that was currently being done ( you can find this information at the bottom of this post).

It’s mad that there is not more research going on, BUT it was also very relieving to find that there is at least SOMETHING being done. If we can help in any way, then that’s exactly what we will do! At this time we haven’t started the fundraising, as we have been concentrating on setting the organisation up first but rest assured once that has been done then we will be pulling the big guns out to raise as much as we can!

Here is the link to our Facebook page with all the research information: https://www.facebook.com/groups/WellARD/561866957213276/

 

***If anyone would like more information about this project, research or anything else Adhesion related please feel free to contact us at: adhesionawareness@gmail.com***