Bring Me The Horizon vocalist Oliver Sykes and keyboardist and vocalist Jordan Fish will be climbing Mount Kilimanjaro this month in order to raise money for charity. The duo have set up a Just Giving account to raise money for the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit portion of a hospital in Southampton, UK, where Fish's infant son is currently being treated for a brain hemorrhage.
According to the Just Giving account, Sykes and Fish plan to reach the summit of the mountain in eight days overall. Fish also says his son "is breathing on his own" and he and his wife "are seeing small improvements every day."
On the evening of Sunday 21st August, our 4 day old baby Eliot suffered what we eventually found out was a Brain Haemorrhage. My wife Emma and I reacted as quickly as we could as soon as we began to feel his crying changed from what you would consider ‘normal’ to something else. We called an ambulance in the early hours of the morning and did our best to keep him calm, awake and alive.
When we arrived at Basingstoke hospital Eliot had stopped breathing more than once and was having seizures. Emma held him in the ambulance and kept him alive even though she could feel him drifting away in her arms. The hospital staff put Eliot into a coma, took over his breathing and sedated him to get the seizure under control.
Once they felt he was stable enough, within about an hour or two of us arriving, they scanned Eliot’s brain. The scan showed an acute bleed in the centre of his brain and some ‘unusual’ tissue which may have caused the bleed.
In the early hours of Monday morning we were transferred in a special ambulance to the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at Southampton hospital where he stayed for 5 days under the 24hr supervision on the amazing team there.
We wish Fish's son all the best in his recovery, and both Fish and Sykes the best of luck and the safest of travels to, during, and from the mountain! Good luck guys! Once again, you can donate to the cause here.
