Walk for Whitey

This is Chris White, known to his friends as Whitey.

Whitey is a partner to Sarah, dad to 5 year old Eden and stepdad to Ellis and Lewis. For anyone who knows Chris, he has the biggest heart and would do anything to help anyone.

In July 2022, Chris collapsed in a locked bathroom and was without a proper pulse for over 50 minutes. He was resuscitated and stabilised at home, transferred to Hull Royal Infirmary and placed in an induced coma.

His family were told numerous times that there was nothing that could be done, that Chris would pass away peacefully. Due to being without oxygen for such an extended period, he had a severe complex hypoxic brain injury.

During resuscitation, Chris had 18 shocks to the heart with a defibrillator resulting in heart failure which will limit his life expectancy.

After 4 weeks in a coma, the doctors removed sedation and Chris started to show signs he could fight. It started with simple eye movement and progressed to moving his limbs.

3 months after being admitted to ICU, Chris was moved to a neurology ward, and then to the complex rehabilitation unit for 4 months where he continued to show signs of improvement and was able to stand with assistance.

Neurologically, Chris is able to communicate and has blown everyone away with his progress.

Now he has been transferred home with 24-hour-a-day carers and very limited community physiotherapy.

On Saturday 23rd September, a team of Whiteys friends, family and colleagues and going to walk Scaffell Pike – the highest mountain in England – to raise money for Chris.

We hope to raise as much as possible to give Chris and his family the best life he can live with a hypoxic brain injury – a life which every doctor thought he wouldn’t have.

Any funds raised would be put towards Neuro physiotherapy, physical therapy, and a psychologist to help Chris manage with his memory loss. Throughout this, Sarah has returned to work full time along with raising 3 boys and supporting Chris and surviving on one salary. Any excess funds would be used to support the family, remove unnecessary stress and to give the opportunity to make memories for this wonderful family that are made more difficult with a complex brain injury.

Please share this, and donate anything you can to help Whitey live his best life.