The family of a woman whose hand was saved after suffering life-changing injuries have donated more than £5,000 to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospitals Charity for the unit where she was treated.
Severe injuries
Tracey Webb was taken to hospital by ambulance after she sustained severe hand injuries following a road traffic accident on the A47 in Norfolk last September. The main artery in her wrist had been severed, but the trauma team were able to save her hand with metal rods and plates inserted into her arm.
Tracey’s son John, his partner Jade and their family run Fendick’s Fishery and the on-site Hubbles restaurant and Rondo’s bar, near Thetford. Together they raised £5,246 for the Norfolk and Norwich Orthopaedic Centre, where Tracey was treated, through customer donations and fundraisers.
‘So grateful’
Tracey said: “I am so grateful to the Trauma Orthopaedic Consultants Christopher Ingham and Ken Wong, who were able to save my hand.
“I can’t work anymore and I can’t lift my great granddaughters up but I’m having physio every week and I am so thankful for everything the team have done.
“My granddaughter was also in the car and suffered bruising from the seatbelt, but it could have been so much worse.”
Orthopaedic Centre
The Norfolk and Norwich Orthopaedic Centre opened last summer and was created as a patient-centred unit. Facilities include a same-day admissions unit, treatment rooms, two laminar flow theatres, Post Anaesthetics Care Unit, a 21-bedded ward, physiotherapy rooms and a pharmacy and dispensing room.
Some of the most up-to-date surgical equipment has been provided by the N&N Hospitals Charity which supported the build with a £2m grant – the biggest single grant in its history.
Find out more about the N&N Hospitals charity here
