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She's meant to be enjoying her teenage years - | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
but instead Jade Gadd is trapped in her bedroom. | :00:16. | :00:17. | |
The 16-year-old from Durham has a rare genetic condition that | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
Despite this, Jade wants to be able to leave the house and for three | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
years her family has battled for alterations to their home. | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
Our health reporter, Sharon Barbour, has this exclusive report. | :00:28. | :00:35. | |
I would have to use a wheelchair and then I would go to my stairlift | :00:36. | :00:47. | |
and I can not use that while I am spasming so I get stuck. | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
But when she turned into a teenager, she began to show the devastating | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
symptoms of a rare genetic condition. | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
One doctor described it as all body pain. | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
As we filmed, Jade had numerous seizures. | :01:10. | :01:24. | |
She insisted we show them because she says this is what living | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
If Jade is well enough to go out, or if she needs to leave | :01:28. | :01:35. | |
the house to go to hospital, the journey is a perilous one. | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
She must get down a steep stairwell in the house | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
And it's help with these stairs, access to the house and around | :01:42. | :01:49. | |
the house that Jade's parents have been fighting for. | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
We have had three ambulance crews here before to move her | :01:52. | :01:53. | |
when she is having seizures and she has to have an | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
And it's taking a tremendous toll on the family. | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
Her father Tony, a former police officer, is now undergoing his his | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
Neither can work, all of their savings have gone. | :02:06. | :02:15. | |
Durham County Council have told Look North... | :02:16. | :02:32. | |
They say it amounts to a loan which they cannot afford. | :02:33. | :02:41. | |
It's a groundbreaking operation which could change his life. | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
And today five-year-old Finley Ingles from Middlesbrough | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
has undergone surgery in America to treat his rare brain tumour. | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
Well, this is the day that Finley's parents desperately hoped | :02:55. | :03:04. | |
He currently suffers up to 15 seizures in a single day and, | :03:05. | :03:12. | |
for the last 3.5 years, he's tried many different forms | :03:13. | :03:14. | |
of treatment and drugs but nothing has worked. | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
That is why they have always seen this trip | :03:17. | :03:18. | |
to Houston, this operation, as their last chance. | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
They are also aware that this is a very difficult | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
They arrived at Texas Children's Hospital in the early | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
Before they went in, we had a quick word with Cara, Finley's mother. | :03:28. | :03:36. | |
I'm a whole host of emotions rolled into one. | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
I'm just praying that it's everything that | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
He's excited to be at the hospital, believe it or not. | :03:44. | :03:54. | |
Finley went into surgery at around three o'clock your time now. | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
His family said at the time when he went down he was happy and smiling. | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
For all that is happening, he just knows that doctors | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
here in America are going to try and make him feel better. | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
This procedure is being carried out by Daniel Curry, | :04:07. | :04:08. | |
the man who developed laser ablation surgery. | :04:09. | :04:10. | |
The operation is expected to take around six hours but it is thought | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
it will be sometime tomorrow before we get the first indication of how | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
And we'll have an update on Finley's condition | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
A lorry driver from Darlington has appeared in court, | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
accused of bringing down a bridge by driving dangerously. | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
Alan Austen is also charged with criminal damage on the M20 | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
in Kent on the August bank holiday last year. | :04:35. | :04:36. | |
He did not enter a plea and the case was referred to the crown court. | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
Last month we told you about Fester, the boxer cross. | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
But, after he featured on Look North, the shelter | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
where he was staying was overwhelmed with offers of a new home. | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
And, this afternoon, Fester left with his new owners. | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
It is easy to look at Fester, a dog who has had a sound thrashing | :04:59. | :05:10. | |
with the ugly stick, and conclude that only his mother | :05:11. | :05:12. | |
But to his new owners, Fester is quite the Bobby Dazzler. | :05:13. | :05:24. | |
He bounces around, he is so happy and loving | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
He loves a good cuddle so it's all very nice. | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
Since Fester's first appearance on Look North a month ago, | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
the Dogs' Trust near Darlington has been overwhelmed with people | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
Once our first appeal went out with yourselves, it was really good. | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
We thank everyone who enquired, everyone that came down and everyone | :05:50. | :05:51. | |
that has adopted another dog instead as well. | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
So you were able to find homes for other dogs? | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
We managed to find some and we have had a lot more visitors to the site | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
He looks a bit like an extra from Lord Of The Rings | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
but when you meet Fester, he is an excellent dog, | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
He has found a home but they are keen to stress | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
here that there are about 100 other dogs that need a home, | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
although none of them are quite as distinctive looking as him. | :06:18. | :06:27. | |
Before we go, the weekend weather with Jen Bartram. | :06:28. | :06:38. | |
Good evening. It is going to be a mild weekend with a lot of cloud | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
around and mad face rain as well. We start Saturday with a mostly dry | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
Ned. There will be blue skies borrowed time but as we go through | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
the morning and two this afternoon that this band of rain will spread | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
in. Most the light and patchy with a lot of cloud around and it will | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
clear later in the day. Temperatures up to a high of 11 degrees and a | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
brisk south-westerly breeze. Sunday starts off with a few outbreaks of | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
rain. That will sink away and we will be left with a dry day, some | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
bright spells for the north-east, a lot of cloud for Cumbria but it will | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
feel decent nonetheless. A brisk breeze from the west and | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
temperatures around 11 or 12 degrees. Next week it is going to | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
stay very mild. Quite windy and cloudy with temperatures up to 13 | :07:28. | :07:28. | |
degrees. part of next week, we could see 16 | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
Celsius in a few spots. Here is knit with the National output. | :07:35. | :07:46. | |
We have turned things around in the space of a week, with a more | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
springlike feel out there. Some places may get as high as 17 Celsius | :07:53. | :08:00. | |
on Monday. That is the exception, and most of us won't see that. | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
Plenty of cloud throughout this weekend. It is already producing | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
some outbreaks of rain in western and northern parts overnight will | :08:08. | :08:15. | |
stop not amounting to too much, affecting western Scotland later in | :08:16. | :08:23. | |
the night. Early rain in Northern Ireland looks to pull away quite | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
quickly in the morning, spreading south through Scotland. Not very | :08:26. | :08:34. | |
much to the east of high ground. Much of England and Wales starts | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
dry, but with plenty of cloud. Maybe a few | :08:39. | :08:39. |