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Realmark Ironman tackles event for charity

Realmark Agent Jon Williams is attempting his first full Ironman in Busselton on 2 December 2018. Mr Williams is taking part in the event with the hope to raise $5000 for a cause that is very close to his heart, Perth Childrenโ€™s Hospital.

In April 2009, Mr Williams and his wife Judi entered St John of God Hospital in Subiaco, expecting to walk out a few days later with their newborn son. Everything leading up to his birth was fairly normal, Ms Williams is a diabetic, so pregnancy was challenging, however, going into hospital on the day they were both confident everything was going to go smoothly.

When Chase was born it didnโ€™t take Mr and Ms Williams long to realise something was not right, as soon as he was born Chase was struggling to breathe and doctors rushed him away. He was immediately put on oxygen and transferred to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at PMH. This was just the beginning of their ordeal as the family were thrown into this surreal eight-week journey at NICU being guided by various paediatric specialists, cardiologists and what seemed like a never-ending supply of nurses.

That night Chase was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect, he had two aortaeโ€™s coming out of his heart that had wrapped around his trachea which was crushing his windpipe. He went in for immediate surgery to cut one of the aortaeโ€™s from the heart to relieve the pressure on his trachea. It was a four-hour surgery with great success giving Chase the ability to breathe again. Although still weak, he spent several weeks in intensive care he eventually grew stronger and was able to go home.

Chase is now a happy and healthy nine-year-old thanks to all the hard work and dedication of the staff at PMH. For Mr Williams, his journey at PMH felt like it was only yesterday and has so much gratitude for the phenomenal doctors here in WA and most importantly the family of nurses and support team who goes into battle every single day for families like mine with little or no praise.

Mr and Ms Williams could not thank all the doctors, nurses and support teams enough for how they helped them through their journey and are eternally grateful. Mr Williams’ goal of $5000 is to give to the hospital foundation funds to go towards specialist equipment needed to give our kids the best chance of a full recovery, 100 per cent of all donations willย go straight to the Perth Childrenโ€™s Hospital Foundation.

Mr Williams said, โ€œ I sat back and thought what would challenge me? What would push me to breaking point and thatโ€™s when I came up with the Ironman challenge. I felt it was the least I could do to raise awareness for the hospital that literally changed our lives, without them, I donโ€™t even want to think where we would be now.โ€

Realmark Group Managing Director, John Percudani said, โ€œJon is a dedicated agent, he shows great spirit and determination in getting results for his clients and this will be no different. He will push to the end and raising awareness for this great cause which we too at Realmark will support.โ€

The Ironman challenge takes part on 2 December in Busselton.

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