(15-03-2011, 03:20 PM)Carole Wrote:

(12-03-2011, 07:59 PM)cregnybaa Wrote: I would have thought the health service on the IOM would have a duty to look after their own to give them the best care available and to get them back to as normal as is possible they reputedly made 9 millon out of the TT last year, what is needed here is a drop in the ocean out of that.

I find it so difficult to understand the reasoning behind refusal of funds for nescessary treatment of young injured riders such as Tim, but we hear everyday of very expensive ops on those well into their eighties or nineties. Of course I am not suggesting for one minute that the Seniors should be refused those ops, but rather that those with their whole future ahead of them be afforded the same consideration, withough having to beg.
Tim is only 22, and deserves every bit of help, in a timely manner that he can get, without funding having to come into it- and he need it now.

Meantime his Family have the unenviable task of an uphill struggle to raise those funds, on top of an already very stressful and upsetting time. Lesser families would have given up by now, so I am in awe of them.

We have been so very lucky that Olie has received good care, and is well on his way to recovery, and are saddened that Tim has not been so lucky.

Well said Carole, its only when it lands on your own door that you feel the pain. I was very surprised to read on another forum that a rider made the comment that spectators should not have to pay and that riders should take out maximum insurance to cover such events.