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Repatriation appeal
and ended up in the intensive care unit of the Marina Baixa hospital.
The initial diagnosis on admission said that Jack’s col lapse was due to hypoglycaemic encephalopathy (extremely low blood glucose).
Meaning people do things more quickly and easily when they work together. A very ancient proverb known to both the Greeks and the Romans - it first appeared in English by John Heywood in 1546.
He was admitted straight to the facility’s ICU where surgeons performed a tracheotomy and inserted a feeding tube. As a result of hydrocephalus a buildup of fluidJack also suffered seizures and swelling of the brain.
Although it is still too early to offer a full prognosis, the hospital doctors think he might have suffered brain damage.
His family is desperate to fly Jack back to England. Unfortunately, they discovered that because he did not declare on the holiday insurance forms that he had T1D (Type 1 Diabetes), he is not covered for repatriation costs.
Three days after her son was hospitalised, his mother, 64yearold Sue Stone, flew to Spain to be at his bedside. She quickly learned that her son’s possessions had mysteriously disappeared, including his passport and mobile phone.
Sue is receiving muchneeded assistance from the British Benevolent Fund in Spain as well as Help Interna tional Benidorm.
HELP volunteers have also been supporting Sue at the hospital with interpreting and translating, and helping her to understand the process and the medical diagnosis (and prognosis).
The hospital consultant informed Sue that her son is in no way fit to fly unless accompanied by trained medical professionals and he is not considered fit enough to travel by ambulance.
They have been quoted in the region of €25,000 by a UKbased company to fly Jack home, but the family has not got sufficient funds for that and the British government seems to be unable to help.
A Just Giving page (Help get Jack home) is on social media and a fundraising event is being held in his home town.
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Facelift for Denia
DENIA town centre is currently teeming with construction workers, diggers and noise as several renovation projects are underway simultaneously.
However, they are all timed to finish in July and will reportedly not interfere with the major local summer fiestas, according to the council.
Work is concentrated on Calle Cop, Calle Ramón y Cajal and the Carreró de Morand, some of the most historic streets of the old town centre.
Improvements include replacing the old paving, which will not be the same in each area and with different colours granting each street its own distinct identity.
The most striking change
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has taken place in Calle Cop, where the old pink paving that had characterised this street since it was pedestrianised in the 1980s has been replaced with the same ochre or yellow tiles with black bands.
Lighting up
VILLAJOYOSA Town Hall has renovated the lighting at the Parque de Puentes del Moro.
The newly installed light points are equipped with stateoftheart LED technology that offers greater energy efficiency, reducing electricity consumption and providing a brighter and more welcoming environment at night in this busy part of the town.
The renovation of the park’s 30 streetlights was necessary due to the deterioration of many of them due to vandalism or malfunction and is part of a wider project to improve Villajoyosa’s urban infrastructure.
THE traditional San Juan celebrations in Finestrat have been awarded the title of Tourist Interest Fiesta by the regional Valencian government.
San Juan marks the summer solstice and takes place every June 23 throughout the Valencia Region.
In Finestrat thousands of revellers have taken to La Cala beach for the last
