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Your help & support is needed for our little 5 year old - Serious road accident

  • Progress is going great, 1 happy girl again 💓

      5 January 2024
    Posted by: Victor Wakefield
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    Hi everyone, thank u all for your support and donations from u all, much appreciated. Just letting u know that Sapphire is doing awesome, she's healing fast and now enjoying herself. She had an awesome Christmas and New Years, and all her follow ups at her appointments are going well. Sapphire is now out of her sling and has full movement, is definitely eating well, walking and talking, and her memory loss is getting way better now. Her scars are all healing well, and she's finally starting to be able to be herself again, the loving cheerful child everyone knows, we are so blessed for her recovery. I will update again next week after her next 2 major follow-ups. Today's went really well. We are definitely moving forward. Thank u everyone, God bless, stay safe and have a wonderful holidays. Sapphire says thank u to everyone for helping and supporting us all and she was so happy to be able to thank the doctors and nurses in person today at Starship while there. Our happy Saffy is back, a huge thanks to everyone, we couldn't do it without u all. Much love from us all to u all, until next update......keep smiling 😃

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    • 05/01/2024 by Evelyn

      Amazing news! Ka pai te mahi, Sapphire! Wonderful to hear this news & to see you full of life 🥹🥰💗

    • 06/01/2024 by Kahu

      Blessings Whanau Happy New Year, with Humble beginnings

    • 11/01/2024 by Marie

      That is wonderful news for the new year. What an amazing little girl Sapphire is to have recovered so well from such huge adversity. Thank you for sharing her progress. Take care :-)

  • An extremely challenging week

      18 December 2023
    Posted by: Victor Wakefield

    Hi there everyone, thank you to everyone for their help, their support, their donations, all much appreciated in everyway. This has been an extremely challenging 1st week home, mentally, physically, emotionally, and financially. More than I had anticipated that's for sure. Sapphire is doing well, considering her injuries, been in and out of meetings and clinics for various tests and checks, some gud, some unsure answers yet. Sapphire has developed a bit of a memory loss here and there, unsure yet whether this will be permanent or not but they are going to keep a close eye on it, have several appointments for various injuries and checks leading up till Christmas, but hopefully we will still have Sapphire home for Christmas as long as things are either improving or kept stable with where we are now and no more major set backs. Sapphire has her gud days with the bad at the moment, a few flashbacks of the accident, which seems to be easing, but seems to be handling it ok as much as she can. I will be updating here Christmas day next or just before with photos, thank u all so much for your continued support and donations, we couldn't do this without you all. Merry Christmas to you all, God bless, stay safe, and thank u all from Sapphire, myself and my whanau. You all are such beautiful people and I will always appreciate wat you all have done to support us, making it easier to get through this real hard time......... Thank u all

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    • 18/12/2023 by Gill

      kia kaha, lots of love and prayers to you all

    • 18/12/2023 by Marie

      Thank you for the update. It is heartwarming to hear that Sapphire is improving. We hope the accident flashbacks that she is having fade and she continues to recover. No doubt there will be many more challenges yet, but you sound like a wonderful caring Dad and your love and support will help smooth the way. We wish you, Sapphire and the rest of your family a lovely Christmas and don't forget to take good care of yourself too. Merry Christmas with your little miracle girl :-)

    • 01/01/2024 by Evelyn

      Kia ora Sapphire, Victor & whanau, you have been in my thoughts.

      Hope Sapphire was home for Christmas & you all managed to have some family time, rest & happy moments even though it must have been a very different Christmas this year.

      Sending aroha, continued healing & all the best for you all for 2024 💖

  • Our Miracle Girl Home For Christmas

      10 December 2023
    Posted by: Victor Wakefield
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    First of all thank you to everyone's support in every way possible, to each and every single person, Thank You!!! A miracle has happened, yes you heard right, a miracle has happened. Sapphire is now at home. We have plenty of on going visits to various appointments for atleast a year we have been told, but she was allowed to come home under strict restrictions and monitoring as this was Sapphires wish was to go home so they granted her the only wish she wanted. Over the weekend she amazed all of us, getting up to go to the toilet, walking, talking , complaining she was hungry and wanted real food, and most of all wanting to just go home. Doctors couldn't believe her progress over a couple of days and the ward soon knew her as the miracle girl. She is so glad to be home enjoying her toys and siblings and just been home. We know it's a long road from here, but we are all looking positive for the future, and my girl is home for Christmas. I am so happy for her being alive, but her coming home with so much progress is unbelievable and thank you everyone for making it possible for me being able to focus and being with her by her side the whole time and not having to worry bout finances and everything else while doing so. Still a long road ahead , plenty of tests, plastic surgery, spinal checks, brain checks etc, but we are on our way in the right direction. Thank you everyone for your continued support, I just can't thank everyone enough, God Bless, Stay safe, next update sn

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    • 11/12/2023 by Julian Williams

      So happy to hear that Sapphire is back home, Merry Christmas Victor, to you and your whānau, from another Rewa Father.

    • 11/12/2023 by Hanna

      Aww poor sweet girl! How amazing is she! God is so good! I'm glad she was able to be home in time for Christmas, most definitely a miracle girl :) Thank you for keeping us up to date Victor, praying for an even faster home recovery for Sapphire. Have a wonderful Christmas whanau!

    • 11/12/2023 by Marie

      This is the best news! It's wonderful to hear that your little sweetheart Sapphire has progressed so rapidly to the point where she has been allowed to go home. She is definitely a miracle girl. Her recovery is amazing!! Thank you for the update and we hope she continues to progress in her recovery and you all have a lovely family Christmas together happy in the knowledg that you have got your girl back :-)

    • 11/12/2023 by Alison

      So excited for you and to hear of Sapphire’s progress. Realising you still have a long road ahead, we wish you well. The angels are watching over you all. God bless xx

  • The starting of our long journey ahead.

      6 December 2023
    Posted by: Victor Wakefield

    Ok, ahh, thank you to everybody for their support in everyway possible, thank u to all the support and donations on give a little, finlayson park school, social workers, hospital, the police, victims support to everybody, and especially the whanau, sorry if I've missed out anyone but thank u. I would like to inform everyone that we have bn informed that there is going to be ongoing specialists involved now to start rehabilitation with sapphire. She will be getting ongoing plastic surgery to her face, eye specialists are dealing with her sight, regular checks for her spine, and it's all back to square 1 as if she's a baby again, learning to speak again , learning how to walk again, close observations on her brain as there can be ongoing complications. Sapphire is doing really well in our eyes and hoping for the best as anyone wud, atleast we all know now that the journey is started to healing and we are all thinking positive. From all the messages on here and other means of communication, we wud like to thank everyone for the thoughts of u all, as it touches our hearts there are so many caring loving people out there, and it helps us alot keeping positive. It's made it alot easier for us knowing the support we have. I will still do regular updates for our long journey ahead. Thank u everyone, God bless, stay safe, and keep up the comments, this keeps us going, thank you, from behalf of myself, (sapphires dad) and whanau. Photos will be coming soon..

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    • 06/12/2023 by Gill

      Thank you for the updates, lots of love and prayers to you, Sapphire and your whanau x

    • 06/12/2023 by Alison

      Thank you, Victor for your updates. Little Sapphire has touched my heart. Wishing you all the best for your long journey ahead. Sending lots of love and hugs to you all. 🙏

  • Slow progress but gud progress

      4 December 2023
    Posted by: Victor Wakefield
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    Hi there, once again thank you to everybody for their support and donations, it's really appreciated and because of yous I'm able to be here beside her thru this long journey ahead. Sapphire turned 6 last Friday and it was awesome to be able to share the news for that day. Since her birthday there's bn more progress, she's speaking short sentences now, alot of movement in arms and hands, and finally little movement in her toes. She's breathing on her own now, and nearly off all sedation to start with other processes to see wat other things may improve slowly, sapphire is out of the danger zone now and we are all really grateful and overwhelmed she's made it this far, she's a true fighter as she was before the accident. I will post again soon as more progress happens, thank u so much everyone for your support and being their with us On her journey to recovery, much appreciated, stay safe, God bless and thank u

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    • 05/12/2023 by Helen

      I am so very happy to hear of Sapphire's improvement. My heart goes to the whanau.

  • Sapphire wakefield

      1 December 2023
    Posted by: Victor Wakefield

    Hi there, thank u so much for everyone's support, much appreciated, sapphire has just turned 6 today, and we have wonderful news she has woken up, and moved her fingers, and has slight eye movements now and has come out of icu down to the slightly next stage of progress. This such overwhelming news for us all. I will be re updating with photos later on in next few days with the next progress report, once again , I the father wud like to thank everyone on behalf of my whanau, for their support enabling me to be able to be here full time with her at this time, It has really helped us all heal slowly much smoother thanks to you all for your help financially and I have read all the messages, I'm so overwhelmed, I can't thank everyone enough, God bless, stay safe, and thank u

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