Just picked up the email and shocked by the news. Like everyone else our
thoughts and prayers are with him, Jan and the family. We wondered why we
hadn’t seen them around over the last couple of days, please keep us informed
and as we only live across the road if there’s anything we can do please let us
know.
Christine and Rob
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On 5 Aug 2020, at 23:17, jennie chapman <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Oh I’m so very very sorry, and sad, to hear this awful news...
Thoughts and prayers going out to John and his family...
Jennie
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On 5 Aug 2020, at 22:45, Jane Phayre (Redacted sender jesphayre for DMARC)
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Evening Peter.
This is truly shocking. Absolutely dreadful news. Can’t bear it.
Thank you for letting us know. We must send positive thoughts .
As Peter says , our hearts go out to Jan and the Children.
Best.
Jane
On 5 Aug 2020, at 21:37, Peter Dixon <pcsdixon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Omg. My heart goes out to Jan and the children. So sorry to hear this and
hope and pray for his seedy recovery.
Peter D
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On 5 Aug 2020, at 19:43, Peter Curtis <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear WVIC Members,
I know that some of you are aware of this shocking news but John Stringer
suffered a terrible accident on Monday and this is the update from yesterday.
John is in the ICU at Southampton and Jan is visiting when she can ( very
restricted owing to Covid) and giving some updates.
I am sure that all of us in the Investment Club will be thinking and praying
for John.
Peter C.
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From: Jan Stringer <janxstringer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 4 August 2020 at 18:40:17 BST
Subject: John
Dear All,
I'm guessing most of you know that John fell over yesterday whilst teaching (or
should I say playing football with pupils during the break!) and collapsed. He
has had an emergency op, is in a coma and things are still dodgy. Here is the
latest news.
Things are still critical, but he is still with us and battling on. I managed
to go and see him this morning, although not for very long as the covid
restrictions mean only one person in for an hour, three times a week. It was
pretty traumatic as he is more tubes, screens and bandages than man and he is
in a coma, so completely unresponsive. I held his hand and tried to tell him
news and was not very good at holding back tears. He probably hated that, but
lack of sleep meant I couldn't stop them.
There are glimmers of good news: they warned me they would leave his skull off ;
after the op as they expected the brain to be swelling too much and it would
need the extra room. However, it was put back - so presumably the swelling
wasn't quite as bad as they predicted. Also, they have managed to stop the
bleeding and remove the clot, so the brain is now clear of the extra weight.
(He has fractured his skull and severed both some arteries and veins, no idea
how many. They can see the brain is bruised and possibly damaged, but we won't
know for sure how badly until he is able to sit up and talk.)
The other good news is that the boys in the lesson acted quickly getting help,
the ambulance arrived swiftly, John was seen in A and E immediately and was
there when he properly collapsed and became unconscious, so went straight to
ICU and Southampton were able to keep a neuro-surgery theatre free for John's
arrival and operated as soon as he got there. All of this has meant his chances
were improved.
Now they are monitoring his brain pressure and trying to keep him completely
stable. What they are wanting is for John's brain to stabilise and stop
swelling. The quicker it does this, the better and the sooner they will try to
bring him out of the coma. If you really want to know about brain pressure then
here it comes...
A healthy brain pressure is between 0 and 15. I do not know what you have to be
doing for it to hit 15 (perhaps weight lifting?) but that range is considered
normal. John's was at 21 whilst I was there and they wanted it under 20.
Creeping up towards 30 is what has to be avoided as that probably means another
op. They expect John's pressure to spike every now and then (distress,
coughing, high temp etc) but the fewer times it spikes and the steadier it is
(hopefully lowering all the time) the better. Since I left, his pressure went
up to 23/24 and they upped his sedation + medication and it came back down
again. Pressure coming down is good, extra sedation is less good.
I've been told he will remain in an induced coma for a good few days. If he has
lots of pressure spikes, it might be beyond next weekend. They really don't
know. I pushed them for a longer - term prognosis, which they were very
reluctant to give, but said that he was doing ok so far and had done really
well to even get this far and we can possibly be 'cautiously optimistic'. I'm
clinging on to the last bit.
Lots of love,
Jan x
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