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Who Is Harry?

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  • Who Is Harry?

Harry was the life and soul of the room. He lit up any room he was in and made you feel like you were the most important person there. He had a way with words and always put you at ease. Harry was loving, kind, caring and selfless. He loved to help people and especially children. His great gran was very important to him, and he would phone her every day without fail. Harry had two brothers and a sister and they were like peas in a pod. 

He grew up with active hobbies: dancing and appearing in pantomimes. He had many friends wherever he went whether it was at school, college, university, or work. He was training to be a social worker at the University of Hull where he quickly settled in and became a big character in the cohort. He wanted to be the voice that vulnerable children and young people needed. He created the ‘Harry’s Promise’ poem before he started his first social care placement in September 2023. He did not realise how his love and kindness brought so much happiness and peace to those around him. He didn’t know just how amazing he was!

  • Harry’s story

Harry was loving university and especially his placement. He was working on the team where they worked with parents. He loved his placement and would often ring to say how he was doing, saying how hard the case load was, especially all the paperwork, but thrived on wanting to make a difference to the children and young people he came into contact with. 

On Thursday 2nd November I had a phone call to say Harry was not well, he had been taken to hospital. As we travelled from Wolverhampton to Hull,134 miles away, it became apparent through phone calls that this was serious. Harry was in ICU. We finally arrived at Hull some 4hrs after we set out and went straight to ICU. Harry was hooked up to so many machines with a breathing tube down his throat and wires everywhere.

That day, Harry had been on a training course being delivered by two young teenagers from care. Harry had been well all morning, just getting over a cold but his normal funny self. Just after lunch he suddenly collapsed on the floor and was struggling to breathe. An ambulance was called, and he was taken to Hull Royal Infirmary. On the way he suffered a cardiac arrest. The paramedics, doctors and nurses worked tirelessly on Harry for over 50 minutes to get his heartbeat back. He was transferred to ICU and was being monitored. They were investigating what had happened and were concerned about the lack of oxygen to his brain. It was now a waiting game.

The doctors said he had suffered from cardio myopathy which led to his cardiac arrest, which was most likely a result of the virus he was getting over. He was then transferred to Castle Hill Hospital to the heart specialist ICU, where we just waited.

On the 9th November 2023 we received the heartbreaking news that Harry’s brain injury was catastrophic and he was not going to recover. We went down to theatre with Harry and held him while he slowly slipped away. Harry went on to help save three other people, donating his two kidneys and his liver.

The promise

This is Harry’s Promise he had written to all the children he was going to support as a social worker.