{"id":1303,"date":"2014-05-19T09:40:53","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T09:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jordantheheadcase.wordpress.com\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2024-06-01T10:58:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T10:58:10","slug":"okay-total-u-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordantheheadcase.com\/index.php\/2014\/05\/19\/okay-total-u-turn\/","title":{"rendered":"Okay…total U-turn…."},"content":{"rendered":"

Erm….so you know how I said in my last post that Vietnam work was going to have to be shelved for a bit due to the key contacts I was working with disappearing?\u00a0 Yes, well, forget all that.\u00a0 I had a final push at trying to get the Vietnam door open and….ta-daaaaah!\u00a0 Doors flinging open all over the place.\u00a0 But most importantly, these doors were being opened by the right people. So in the past couple of weeks I’ve possibly made more progress than I had done in the last six months.\u00a0
\n\u00a0 Looking back, it almost makes me laugh.\u00a0 Because really, the key to achieving your goals is so simple.\u00a0 You need passion about what you are doing.\u00a0 You need to be doing it for the right reasons.\u00a0 You need to be able to dream big.\u00a0 And the people you decide to work with on the way need to be just as passionate, just as motivated for the right reasons and must be dreaming just as big.\u00a0 As the new neurosurgeon I was put in touch with (Martin Corbally) who opened a whacking majorly big door said to me regarding my project,\u00a0 ‘Jordan, doors are just waiting to open’.\u00a0 And now they have, it feels great.\u00a0 I won’t go into all of it because there’s shedloads of work ahead but I will say that it feels very positive, very exciting and very possible.\u00a0 But I will mention Hillary Browne of Helping Orphans Worldwide<\/a>…the biggest heart I’ve encountered in a long time and a big door-opener as well.\u00a0 She does amazing work with her foundation (check out the link before) and is soon to be moving to Vietnam permanently so it’ll be fantastic to have so involved a contact actually out there, seeing as I can’t get on a plane due to my flipping noggin’.\u00a0 So all good and now all moving forwards once again!\u00a0 Stay tooned for news on this one.
\n\u00a0 I also had a very productive and lovely meeting with a major hospital in a major city, who are being majorly helpful.\u00a0 I very frustratingly can’t name them because they, like many who want to help in the donation of expired-but-absolutely-perfect medical equipment, are bound by internal rules which prohibit them donating; as a result, it’s all sent to landfill or for scrap metal.\u00a0 MADDENING!\u00a0 So they’re doing it very secretly.\u00a0 I panic slightly about this on a weekly basis but their determination to join this cause overrides their fear of a possible firing and they’ve said they are more than happy to risk it.\u00a0 Such determination of spirit is what fuels my belief that this will work.\u00a0 Indeed, they’ve donated lots already to me (I sent out a goodie-bag of neurosurgical bits to Ethiopia last month from them) and now they’ve come up with major full kits for neurosurgery and shunt insertion which are literally like gold-dust.\u00a0 They’ll be ready for me in July.\u00a0 Very ‘cited about that!
\n\u00a0 So many people have been offering donations for this recently…it’s so kind.\u00a0 They range from money to fax machines to offers of help carrying all the heavier stuff to London so I can pass them onto the volunteers taking the equipment out to whatever country it is (that offer is probably the one that got the most effusive thanks!).\u00a0 I’m in the process of setting up a charitable foundation with a website in production so that if folk do want to get involved in any way, it’ll make it a lot easier for them to do so.\u00a0 So far I’ve not accepted money from anyone as I didn’t want anybody but myself to be out of pocket in any way.\u00a0 But now the project is getting bigger and spreading its wings, I can see that if I carry on this way, I’ll end up bankrupt!\u00a0 Posting heavy equipment across the world is not cheap, nor are the UK rail fares to go and pick it up (I’m not able to drive for two years following excessive burr-holes-in-da-head).\u00a0 The hardest thing is choosing a name for the charity.\u00a0 What the bejeezus am I going to call it?\u00a0 It could be something safe and descriptive but I personally want it to be catchy, something which will get attention.\u00a0 Not just another ‘Society For…’ or ‘Association For…’ because the charity world is saturated with those (no offence to Societies and Associations; it’s just that I don’t want us to get lost). So late-night brainstorming sessions looking for a name are the current order of my day.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 My, what a helpful post that was!\u00a0 I have great news on the development of the project but I can’t tell you what it is, I’ve received some amazing donations but I can’t tell you who they’re from and I’m soon to be a charitable organisation but I can’t tell you what it will be called.\u00a0 Aren’t you glad you read this?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Before I go, here’s a picture of true happiness….apparently all that’s needed to achieve this state is a warm lap, some sunshine and someone tickling the top of your head.\u00a0 Who knew? \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Erm….so you know how I said in my last post that Vietnam work was going to have to be shelved for a bit due to the key contacts I was working with disappearing?\u00a0 Yes, well, forget all that.\u00a0 I had a final push at trying to get the Vietnam door open and….ta-daaaaah!\u00a0 Doors flinging open […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[19,22,56,63,82,111],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-charity","tag-brain","tag-brain-surgery","tag-health","tag-hydrocephalus","tag-neurosurgery","tag-vietnam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordantheheadcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordantheheadcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordantheheadcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordantheheadcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordantheheadcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jordantheheadcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2298,"href":"https:\/\/jordantheheadcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions\/2298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordantheheadcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordantheheadcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordantheheadcase.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}