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unable to walk because of spinal cancer, wrote two books and rope -- | :00:03. | :00:10. | |
and raised tens of thousands of pounds. | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
I am Nicole Dryburgh and I was first diagnosed with cancer when I | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
wa want through a range of different emotions from being | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
really upset too angry and then just feeling really determined to | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
get on with it. I I gine who has left wall | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
of the mark than the call. She personally fought cancer three | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
times and also not being able to see anything and she could not walk | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
or here. That meant she had to overcome such extraordinary | :00:42. | :00:50. | |
disabilities. All she wanted to do was help others. -- left more of | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
the mark than the coal. I do what I do because I love it and I want to | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
ma marence. It is my way of giving something back and leaving | :00:58. | :01:04. | |
my mark on the world so that when I am corn I am not forgotten. | :01:04. | :01:14. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 40 seconds | :01:14. | :01:54. | |
A familiar walk along the seafront in Kent has many memories for a | :01:54. | :02:04. | |
cold's mother. She was lively, very likely. Happy, funny and positive. | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
It is her positivity more than anything that shone through that if | :02:07. | :02:17. | |
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she wanted to do something, she did it and nothing stopped her. Come | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
here, good girl. She died unexpectedly at the age of 21 from | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
a brain haemorrhage after facing many challenges in her short life. | :02:27. | :02:35. | |
She has a stone. Oh my God expat she had been left blind and unable | :02:35. | :02:43. | |
to walk through spinal cancer and then tumours destroyed her hearing. | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
But despite that, she broke two books, ran her own website and | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
raised tens of thousands of pounds to help other young cancer | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
sufferers. My name is Nicole Dryburgh, I am 18... She certainly | :02:57. | :03:07. | |
left her mark on the world. So many people wanted to come and pay their | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
respects to her. We held it in Canterbury Cathedral. About 300 | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
people attended. Everybody was given a pink feather and they could | :03:17. | :03:26. | |
make a wish for her. Before she lost her hearing, she always had | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
the radio on so she used to listen a lot of people. She liked a | :03:31. | :03:39. | |
particular song. And the scene of the sum agreed to come and sing it | :03:39. | :03:49. | |
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at the cathedral. -- singer of the song agreed. Do not feel pity, do | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
not fill me sympathy, do not think the poor girl because I am not. | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
not cry Rydon -- cry while reading the book. Stick to these rules and | :04:00. | :04:10. | |
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we will get along great. I was diagnosed with cancer when I was 11 | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
and I had an operation and eight weeks of daily radiotherapy to | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
treat it. Two years later, I had a brain haemorrhage and discovered by | :04:22. | :04:32. | |
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cancer had come back. Within a week of going into hospital, I slipped | :04:33. | :04:42. | |
into a coma, and was paralysed by a stroke. Did lack of oxygen to my | :04:42. | :04:49. | |
brain, I completely lost my sight which has never repaired itself. | :04:49. | :04:56. | |
They then explained I only had about two months to live. I felt | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
determination. Determination to prove everybody wrong. And | :05:01. | :05:11. | |
determined to fight for my life. I then had chemotherapy which I | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
finished at 15. At 17, I relapsed again and had more chemotherapy. | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
She is an extraordinary person supplies welcome Nicole Dryburgh. | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
Towards the end of my chemo, I started having agonising pain in my | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
left ear. I saw three different doctors who basically said nothing | :05:33. | :05:43. | |
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was wrong. Months later, I hadn't MRI scan which discovered I had | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
something in each year and six months later, my hearing was | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
complete destroyed. I would like to thank everybody here for what you | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
are doing. You are helping improve the lives of people like me and it | :05:57. | :06:07. | |
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is appreciated. Please carry on with it. Thank you. I went through | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
a range of different emotions from being the upset to angry and then | :06:15. | :06:22. | |
just feeling really determined to get on with it. She spent a lot of | :06:22. | :06:29. | |
time as a patient at King's College Hospital in south London. But now, | :06:29. | :06:39. | |
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she's going back for another reason. Her talent, to raise tens of | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
thousands of pounds for a special children's the new rehabilitation | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
unit. You are on a ledge! Your feet and on a ledge. Are you sure that | :06:51. | :07:01. | |
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is not the sky? No! You are OK. go. I am not letting go! You are | :07:04. | :07:14. | |
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And My God! I didn't break anything! Well done. You did the | :07:50. | :07:59. | |
well. It is a brilliant way to end my fundraising. The money will be | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
going to new road rehabilitation. White target was �30,000 and I have | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
now raised around �43,000. The equipment that will be in that room | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
will be much better than it would have been if it was only �30,000. I | :08:14. | :08:23. | |
am really pleased. I need a cup of tea. She was inspirational. | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
Amazingly strong spirited. Joyful and she lived life to the full and | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
it has been a lesson to me that you can do that no matter what the | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
circumstances. She has left a lasting legacy both in the | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
inspiration she has given and the fantastic facilities she has left | :08:40. | :08:50. | |
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The room is called Nicole's Sweets. We are going to have one Peter Buck | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
each bed. It is a new rope rehabilitation room. It will have | :09:06. | :09:14. | |
special equipment for children recovering from brain spiral | :09:14. | :09:21. | |
injuries. The NHS can only do so much. We would not have | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
environmental control where disabled people can do everything | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
from turning the television on to controlling the lighting in the | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
aquariums. All of the other specialist equipment. It has all | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
the bells and whistles that we wanted to make the most of | :09:35. | :09:45. | |
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everything for the young people Her determination to overcome her | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
disabilities and do what she could to help other young people going | :10:08. | :10:18. | |
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through similar experiences brought her many awards. When they say how | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
can one person make a difference, the person who created penicillin | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
made a difference. One person can make a difference and she has done | :10:37. | :10:47. | |
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that. She is a shining example to other young people. Goodbye. | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
Congratulations on winning this award. It is brilliant. What does | :10:53. | :11:02. | |
it feel like to be here? I feel very important. We are so proud to | :11:02. | :11:12. | |
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present the 25th the award to Nicole Dryburgh. -- to present the | :11:15. | :11:23. | |
award to Nicole Dryburgh. Congratulations. Amazing. It is a | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
real honour to get the award because it is such a special one in | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
memory of Princess Diana and the work she did. To receive it is | :11:32. | :11:42. | |
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really special. What an incredible girl. She has the most amazing | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
sense of humour. An intelligent girl with so much to give. She has | :11:47. | :11:57. | |
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raised so much money for teenage cancer. She is incredible. | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
younger viewers wanted to give a special prize to Nicole Dryburgh, | :12:08. | :12:18. | |
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acknowledging her remarkable I wrote my book to give people hope | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
and to show to never give up and keep fighting, make the most of | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
your life and what you have got. Our next young citizen award goes | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
to 19-year-old Nicole Dryburgh. When she received a brutally young | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
citizen award in 2008, she revealed her wish-list of things she wanted | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
to achieve. I would love to have really long hair down my back. I | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
have lost mind twice to chemotherapy so I would love to | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
have the feeling of long hair. I would also like to go shopping in | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
New York. Wobble on the cobbles at Coronation Street. I would also | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
like to meet Prince Harry because I like a rebel and I think he would | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
be really nice to meet. Quite a list, you may think. But over the | :13:11. | :13:21. | |
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next year she set about achieving I still cannot believe that died | :13:30. | :13:37. | |
and the New York! I do not know how to explain it. It is brilliant! I | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
love the atmosphere. It is so calming and relaxing! It is just | :13:43. | :13:53. | |
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lovely. Ready? Oh my God! I love animals and just being able to feed | :14:02. | :14:12. | |
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them is brilliant. I cannot believe I just fed a cow. It is a cow. It | :14:13. | :14:20. | |
is a cow, I am not calling you one. Her special visit included getting | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
up close the some of the zoo's more unusual residents. Did you feel her | :14:26. | :14:36. | |
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claw? Yes. It does everything upside down except one thing. She | :14:39. | :14:49. | |
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The snake is kissing your hand. my God. At least he is polite. | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
Going to the sea was my favourite day out. Just getting to hold the | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
animals and the different animals as well, such as an armadillo, a | :15:14. | :15:22. | |
big it Fox which I could never imagine, I could get to do that. | :15:22. | :15:32. | |
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That is lovely. Going home tomorrow, what you think | :15:41. | :15:48. | |
of New York? I love it and I want to come back. | :15:48. | :15:54. | |
The Metropolitan Museum has over 200 words for it. She had so many | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
ideas and memories of things that she wanted to do. Every time she | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
would say something, someone would say, you cannot do that. You cannot | :16:03. | :16:12. | |
fly to New York, you cannot ever walk again. | :16:13. | :16:19. | |
That is really lifelike. started to write a wish-list to | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
show people that wishes can come true. Everything that she wished | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
for did come true. She wrote a book. Eventually she wrote two books. She | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
went to New York, and at sailing, and I think she wanted to meet | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
Prince Harry, which she did as well, which was lovely. Just her and | :16:39. | :16:49. | |
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Prince Harry at Clarence House. It went brilliant. He is just | :16:50. | :16:57. | |
lovely. He was down to earth and funny. Like I imagined, so I am | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
glad that he turned out to be like that. | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
Her friends used to come round and talk about what they have done such | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
as driving their cars, and what she cannot do, and she would come back | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
and say, have you ever had tea with a prince? | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
Prince Harry sent a special message when Nicole embarked on her next | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
fundraising venture, the launch of Nicole's find at Downing Street. | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
Her goal to raise �100,000 to equip a specialist teenage Cancer Trust | :17:31. | :17:41. | |
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Unit at the Surrey branch of the Royal Hospital. | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
He is going to read you a very special message that I received | :17:49. | :17:56. | |
yesterday, from a certain lovely young prince. | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
I know that Nicole will achieve this remarkable goal. Her | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
determination and resolve to help others is simply phenomenal. It is | :18:05. | :18:15. | |
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a huge privilege for me and to wish Nicole the very best of luck and I | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
look forward to hearing about the challenge in ways that she will | :18:20. | :18:30. | |
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Every day in the UK, six teenagers and young adults are diagnosed with | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
cancer. So right now, while we are all here, having fun and drinking | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
tea, six young people's lives have been turned completely upside down. | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
I know that feeling, and that is why I am so determined to help | :18:51. | :19:01. | |
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raise money and awareness for teenage Cancer Trust. | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
Among the many fundraising activities she planned, a chocolate | :19:12. | :19:20. | |
ball, a fun event but with a very serious message. | :19:20. | :19:26. | |
I am going to reveal it to you. just eradicated any excuse that you | :19:26. | :19:35. | |
thought you had for not helping. Everything that you think is kind | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
of stopping you from doing the kind of things that she did, it is still | :19:39. | :19:49. | |
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no way near where she was dealing with on a daily basis. | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
The way that she dealt with it was just incredible, and even what she | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
achieved, even if she was not blind them in a wheelchair, it would | :19:58. | :20:08. | |
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still be amazing. She was devastated by what happened | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
to her. All her dreams were dashed. She cannot be in the police force | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
and certain ideas that she wanted to do when she was younger, the | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
fact that she was helped a lot by some charities when she ended up in | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
a wheelchair and blind, she thought it would be nice to pay them back | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
and say thank you, and to a couple of small fundraising events. When | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
she started, she decided that she enjoyed doing it, and the joy she | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
got from giving, of the winning cheque at the end to somebody, it | :20:45. | :20:53. | |
gave her a lot of pleasure. I love it, all of it, from coming | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
up with ideas to organising things, to the event itself, and then | :20:58. | :21:05. | |
counting the money, and seeing what a difference it can make. The new | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
teenage Cancer Trust unit is part of the Oaks centre for children and | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
young people in Surrey. One of the largest children's cancer centres | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
in Europe. The Oaks centre was opened by the Duke and Duchess of | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
Cambridge in September. The teenage Cancer Trust unit will admit its | :21:26. | :21:36. | |
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first patient cent. This pink room was inspired by Nicole. | :21:42. | :21:52. | |
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She would love it because there is so much pink. She set out to raise | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
an extraordinary amount of money, which was �100,000, but amazingly | :21:57. | :22:04. | |
ended up racing in her lifetime and her legacy, �150,000, which is the | :22:04. | :22:14. | |
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equivalent of paying for a patient's bedroom at our new unit. | :22:16. | :22:23. | |
The facilities for teenagers in hospital is not great. -- are not | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
great. We do not belong in the children's wards so we need | :22:28. | :22:38. | |
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something in between. It is the goals that she had in her | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
life to be able to help other people, she went through a lot but | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
she thought of other people as well, and thought that if I am in | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
hospital with crying babies as a teenager, it is not something that | :22:50. | :22:56. | |
she wanted to do, so she wanted to help teenagers go into a room where | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
they could to adopt things. That is where she has done. -- Baker do | :23:01. | :23:08. | |
adult things. Whenever they met Nicole, most | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
people went away thinking, if she can do it, so can I. That is what | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
she wanted, she wanted people to believe in themselves, and if they | :23:17. | :23:25. | |
want to do something, to set their minds to it and do it. | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
I do not write anything directly about her, but there is a song | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
called, I am not giving up yet, which is definitely it in the right | :23:35. | :23:45. | |
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space. But I should do. If you look at this would, we had | :24:02. | :24:09. | |
10 beds in this ward, and two are in a cold's sweet. It is a reminder | :24:09. | :24:19. | |
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Nicole's legacy is bricks-and- mortar at the hospital, she was so | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
much part of that, from the very early days, sadly she is not going | :25:00. | :25:10. | |
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to see it open, but many people will benefit as a result. | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
Still to the day, she is the most inspiring human being that I have | :25:15. | :25:21. |