It's an absolute pleasure to announce that the very first winner of the Mike Pollock Award is Mr Darren Hamilton! A very worthy winner indeed. Darren is well known to be consistently helpful to other sufferers, even when he is suffering greatly himself. He goes to great lengths to be helpful and travels the length and breadth of the UK in his famous clusterbus to cheer up his fellow clusterheads with his whacky sense of humour! So many people have been on the receiving end of his endless thoughtfulness and advice and he is very sincere about how he feels for his CH family. I think the words of one of the members who nominated Darren for the award, sums him up perfectly: "A real humble guy who just cares". Congratulations Darren, nobody deserves this more.
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Submitted by darren h on Mon, 26/06/2017 - 00:42
Permalinkhi thank you so much, im
hi thank you so much, im stumped for speelable words, i just had few texts about it earler but was helping with pip of all things on other site, so only just seen it, there are so meny that have given such heart felt support, best meds advice there is, under standing found no where else in this clustery world, ran marathons, climbed mountains, or just manage to live with cch kids, work and fight ch all the way, you all have inspired me to do what i can in return gladly, its been and always a plesrue to help or chat with another chers, its got me through some hard times of my own and still dose, im deeply honoured by this award truly, still gob smacked to be honest, specal thanks to harriet for having the patentents to train me with the pip info, no easy task,, but its been fun,, and geradine for helping me under stand me, and give me perspective on life, which in turn gave me a better under standing to help others, and not least the ouch staff and all you chers, supporters with out you all i would be verry alone in this world, thank you all, darren x (the x if for the ladys by the way)
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Submitted by Dorothy on Mon, 26/06/2017 - 09:52
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PermalinkYou really deserve this award
You really deserve this award Darren. I'm so glad our wonderful members stepped up and showed their appreciation for how you brighten up their "clustery world". I'm absolutely delighted for you! Well done. I'm very much looking forward to seeing you receive the award at the conference x
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Submitted by Val on Mon, 26/06/2017 - 10:14
PermalinkYes, chuffed to mintballs for
Yes, chuffed to mintballs for you Darren, a very deserved award.
Val. *yahoo*
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Submitted by Harrietjt on Tue, 27/06/2017 - 12:57
PermalinkHoorah for Darren!
Hoorah for Darren!
So well deserved, especially given you do all this when, as a CCHer, you haven't had a pain free day or night for many years.
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Submitted by Colin Allen Vi… on Mon, 03/07/2017 - 09:30
PermalinkA thoroughly deserved award
A thoroughly deserved award,Darren. Mike would have been more than pleased with the choice.
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Submitted by Dorothy on Tue, 18/07/2017 - 00:15
PermalinkPRESENTATION OF AWARD
PRESENTATION OF AWARD
Quite a few hankies were needed when Darren Hamilton became the very first recipient of the Mike Pollock Award at the weekend. Presenting the award was Mike's brother Phil and lots of Mike's family were there for the occasion. Phil thought that Mike would have been very happy with the members' choice of a very caring and selfless man. Congratulations Darren, you deserve to be recognised with this award which was created as a lasting memorium to honour a great man.
Well done Darren!