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Dean Nelson was forced to retire from his job as a firefighter after a devastating accident left him with major injuries. Now, while he knows his condition will continue to deteriorate, he says we have helped him achieve a better way of life. When Sean Michael was forced to resign from the job he loved as a firefighter due to illness, he struggled to cope amid Covid-19. But he says the support he received from the charity was life-changing.
Dean: “I’ll be in a wheelchair in a few years… you helped lift a huge weight off my shoulders”
Sean: “I don’t know how we’d have survived without the charity’s help”
