Peter
Thank you for letting us know, this is truly awful news and our thoughts are
with John, Jan and the family.
Please pass on our very best wishes and let me know if there’s anything I can
do to help.
Neil
On 6 Aug 2020, at 07:49, Richard Jopling (Redacted sender richard.jopling for
DMARC) <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear Peter and fellow WVIC members
Thank you for letting us all know. I think we are all in shock of this
horrible horrible news and can only imagine what Jan and the children are
going through. Please pass on much love when next speaking to Jan and tell
her we are thinking of them all.
Best
Richard and Louise
On 6 Aug 2020, at 07:03, christine <christinebryan2007@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
Begin forwarded message:
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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