On this special day, we can’t help but think even more of Nicolas and all the loved ones who have left us…
Please don’t skip this newsletter, because I need you… please read to the end!
(BBC NEWS APRIL 28, 2021)
James Lasis: rugby player on life support after scrum collapse
“James Lasis underwent emergency surgery and is on life support.
The family of a 25-year-old rugby player are flying to France to be at his bedside after suffering serious injuries on the field.
Horsted Keynes’ James Lasis is on life support following surgery for a neck injury sustained while playing for Nice.
His mother Judy Lasis said: “He obviously can’t talk because he has tubes inside him, but he’s fully conscious.
“Communication at the moment is through a wink and he has no movement at the moment.”
So I contacted the Pasteur hospital in Nice, and through Madame Durand Sophie (team manager), and following arrangements between the 2 hospitals, the TOBII arrived in the department of Professor Ichi Carole of the polyvalent intensive care unit at Pasteur II in Nice. This enabled James Lasis to correspond not only with his loved ones, but also with the hospital staff. James has since returned to England to continue his convalescence, but the Tobii continues to help others. It is currently used daily by a 55-year-old man and a 42-year-old woman. Out of respect for their privacy, we won’t give away any information about the reasons for their condition or their current situation, because what matters is that this device enables them to leave this world of silence and correspond with the outside world.
So a very many thanks and a speedy recovery to James.
Nevertheless, we haven’t forgotten the kind gesture made by Lyon’s Croix Rousse through Doctor Guichon, and through him we’re going to agree to provide further assistance to this hospital.
Below is the original photo… ironically, it’s the first photo of the group when they arrive at the EGC and Nicolas is in front, forming a heart!
As explained in the last newsletter, Philippe Enjolras, aka Fifel, spent over 48 hours creating a polyptych fresco comprising 12 paintings measuring 3m by 1m50, to be auctioned off for the benefit of 6 associations, including our foundation.
Unfortunately, the bidders didn’t turn up, but Fifel’s kindness “struck again” by allowing our foundation to acquire this work for a derisory price (in relation to its value), so that the 5 other associations wouldn’t go home empty-handed and allow us to resell it afterwards, in order to make a nice capital gain (at least, I hope so).
October 25th publication of Fifel, Philippe Enjolras
“Here’s the mural created during the two days of @hashtagfestival01!”
“Thanks to the organization, the partners and the “little hands” who helped me finish it almost on time!
The original plan was to auction it off to benefit the associations @fondation.nicolasgigot
@marabout_de_ficelle_
@capgame
@vert_comme_terre
@ainsecuriteetprevention
@tous_avec_laura
Thanks to @fondation.nicolasgigot, which purchased the canvas, each association will not go home empty-handed.
We’ll meet again soon for a new charity event to benefit @fondation.nicolasgigot…”
Now we come to my request.
At the tribute for Nicolas at the EGC, after being asked: “How are you?”, I finally let myself go and admitted that my smiles were just a facade and that I was getting worse and worse. In fact, there are several stages in mourning: denial, shock, fear, regret, remorse, guilt, sadness, rage, pain, and then, normally, resilience and acceptance… accepting to live despite the death.
However, apart from the denial stage, I’m constantly going through all these stages, preventing me from becoming a good mother to my 2 other children, a good daughter to my parents, a friend to my friends, a living woman… from doing my job properly…
I very quickly regretted my carelessness in front of all those people, I thought I’d only succeeded in making them cry… especially those young people…
But then, a few people told me they were relieved to see me break down, as it echoed their own grief and that hearing me talk about it had made them feel better… much to my surprise!
For, indeed, I became aware that my grief was also making me selfish, as if my death were unique.
So, like this October 18, I take off my mask and ask for help for the Nicolas Gigot Foundation, because I can’t do it anymore. I need help to keep going. Donations are one thing, but help will be even more valuable in moving the foundation forward. There are so many things to do, like finding someone to :
Making newsletters
Contact retailers for sales of products donated to the foundation (dvd/blu-ray/coffret…)
Contact radios
Organize tombolas and festivities…
Finding sponsors
Propose challenges, find donors
Increase awareness of the Foundation
Find a sponsor who’s well known… and, above all, concerned.
Taking care of the store
Responding to visitors
… so many things that can help the foundation move forward and, at the same time, motivate me to come up with new ideas, because the more of us there are, the more ideas we’ll have!
Help me to continue the foundation; it’s the only thing I have left to keep Nicolas going.
Please contact me:
By e-mail, on info@fondation-nicolasgigot.org
Or call +32 (0)4 358 36 90.
Join me on the foundation team… I look forward to seeing you!
Thank you !
Nadine Brialmont (Nicolas’ mother).
