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Mum of four Amanda Worne is an incredible force of nature. | 0:00:02 | 0:00:04 | |
Were you dropped in a bucket of caffeine when you were a baby? | 0:00:06 | 0:00:09 | |
My mum's very, very loud, really, really outgoing, super bubbly. | 0:00:09 | 0:00:12 | |
Being a mum is my life, it's everything to me. | 0:00:12 | 0:00:15 | |
It's what I was put on the earth for. | 0:00:15 | 0:00:17 | |
But this mum's been left paralysed from the waist down after a horrific | 0:00:17 | 0:00:21 | |
bike smash almost killed her. | 0:00:21 | 0:00:23 | |
It was just like a fact - Mandy, you're never going to walk again. | 0:00:23 | 0:00:27 | |
With an unbreakable spirit, she's grabbing life with both hands... | 0:00:27 | 0:00:31 | |
That's a good boy, come on. | 0:00:32 | 0:00:34 | |
..but she's struggling in a house that's risking her health. | 0:00:34 | 0:00:39 | |
It's awful that she can't do anything. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:41 | |
Because the wheel, if it moves by a millimetre, | 0:00:41 | 0:00:43 | |
she'll fall down those stairs. | 0:00:43 | 0:00:45 | |
However, nothing compares to losing her role as a mum. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:49 | |
It's just sad that your mum can't really | 0:00:49 | 0:00:51 | |
kiss you good night or something. | 0:00:51 | 0:00:53 | |
There's no pain that compares to it. | 0:00:53 | 0:00:55 | |
To put this family back together, | 0:00:55 | 0:00:57 | |
we'll need the support of a whole community... | 0:00:57 | 0:01:00 | |
It's about fixing something the hospital can't fix. | 0:01:00 | 0:01:02 | |
..but most of all, it's about giving this family | 0:01:02 | 0:01:04 | |
the one thing they really need. | 0:01:04 | 0:01:07 | |
Thank you so much. | 0:01:07 | 0:01:08 | |
She can be a mum again. | 0:01:08 | 0:01:10 | |
All the usual suspects are here. | 0:01:11 | 0:01:13 | |
We have just nine days to carry out the job | 0:01:13 | 0:01:15 | |
and our designer this week is the wonderful Sophie Robinson. | 0:01:15 | 0:01:19 | |
Where are we going to find an army? | 0:01:19 | 0:01:21 | |
Well, they're already here because this is DIY SOS - The Big Build! | 0:01:21 | 0:01:24 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:01:24 | 0:01:27 | |
Amanda Worne and her family live in Sussex | 0:01:35 | 0:01:38 | |
and she counts herself as very fortunate. | 0:01:38 | 0:01:41 | |
My children are my heroes. | 0:01:41 | 0:01:43 | |
It's down to them that I get up in the morning. | 0:01:43 | 0:01:45 | |
-Thanks, Mum. -Cheers. -No, you are. | 0:01:45 | 0:01:47 | |
I've got four of them, aren't I lucky? All of them as well. | 0:01:47 | 0:01:50 | |
No, I'm such a lucky lady. | 0:01:50 | 0:01:52 | |
She and builder Vic have four teenagers - | 0:01:54 | 0:01:58 | |
Megan, Jacob, Amelia and Joe. | 0:01:58 | 0:02:03 | |
And being a mum is at the centre of Amanda's world. | 0:02:03 | 0:02:05 | |
They're my life my children, absolute life. | 0:02:08 | 0:02:11 | |
Hook, line and sinker - my babies. | 0:02:11 | 0:02:14 | |
Amazing mum. Her whole life revolves around the family. | 0:02:14 | 0:02:17 | |
Just a great mum, great wife, great person all round. | 0:02:17 | 0:02:20 | |
Despite the size of the family, | 0:02:21 | 0:02:23 | |
the couple have lived in the same modest terrace house | 0:02:23 | 0:02:26 | |
since they married 19 years ago. | 0:02:26 | 0:02:28 | |
I've never had no reason to move, you know? | 0:02:30 | 0:02:32 | |
Every time Mandy had another baby, | 0:02:32 | 0:02:34 | |
I just put another room on the house. | 0:02:34 | 0:02:36 | |
There's no more space to put any more bedrooms, | 0:02:36 | 0:02:38 | |
so we had to stop there. | 0:02:38 | 0:02:40 | |
Life was pretty good, but one summer's day in 2015, | 0:02:40 | 0:02:45 | |
fitness fanatic Amanda went for a training ride on her bike | 0:02:45 | 0:02:48 | |
and her world came crashing down. | 0:02:48 | 0:02:51 | |
I got to the top of a notoriously steep hill, | 0:02:51 | 0:02:54 | |
I thought to myself how lucky my life was, | 0:02:54 | 0:02:56 | |
that was the fitness and strongest I'd ever been. | 0:02:56 | 0:02:58 | |
Little did I know that that would be the last time | 0:02:58 | 0:03:00 | |
I'd ever stand because, as I started the assent down the hill, | 0:03:00 | 0:03:04 | |
I realised that my brakes weren't working on my bike. | 0:03:04 | 0:03:07 | |
I could see a load of bushes on the other side of the road and I felt it | 0:03:10 | 0:03:13 | |
would soften my landing. | 0:03:13 | 0:03:15 | |
Unbeknown to me, there was a sign, it was double posted. | 0:03:15 | 0:03:18 | |
I took full impact | 0:03:20 | 0:03:22 | |
and I could feel like a warm fluid going up my legs | 0:03:22 | 0:03:27 | |
and then there was a sudden realisation | 0:03:27 | 0:03:29 | |
that it was actual paralysis. | 0:03:29 | 0:03:31 | |
It crept right up to about my waist and at that point I just knew. | 0:03:31 | 0:03:35 | |
It was just like a fact - | 0:03:35 | 0:03:36 | |
Mandy, you're never going to walk again | 0:03:36 | 0:03:38 | |
and I was just thought, "You silly, silly girl." | 0:03:38 | 0:03:41 | |
Amanda was lying alone with a broken back, collar bone, | 0:03:41 | 0:03:45 | |
seven smashed ribs and a punctured lung. | 0:03:45 | 0:03:48 | |
I can hardly breathe, I can't move, I've got no phone, | 0:03:48 | 0:03:51 | |
I'm in the middle of bushes, | 0:03:51 | 0:03:53 | |
no-one knows I'm here and at that point in time | 0:03:53 | 0:03:55 | |
I actually thought my life was possibly over. | 0:03:55 | 0:03:57 | |
I thought I could die. | 0:03:57 | 0:03:59 | |
But as I shut my eyes these four faces popped into my head, | 0:04:00 | 0:04:03 | |
of course, my children. | 0:04:03 | 0:04:05 | |
I was thinking, "You can't die." And I thought, | 0:04:05 | 0:04:07 | |
"Right, I'm going to get out of this. I'm not going to die, | 0:04:07 | 0:04:09 | |
"I'm going to get out of this situation | 0:04:09 | 0:04:11 | |
"and I'm going to get help." | 0:04:11 | 0:04:13 | |
After an hour lying in the ditch, | 0:04:13 | 0:04:14 | |
a passing cyclist heard Amanda's cries and she was taken to hospital. | 0:04:14 | 0:04:19 | |
Doctors confirmed what she already knew. | 0:04:19 | 0:04:22 | |
I'm not going to walk again. | 0:04:22 | 0:04:23 | |
I said, "Please, don't look so sad." | 0:04:23 | 0:04:25 | |
I said, "I'm alive." I said, "Do you know what it felt like | 0:04:25 | 0:04:27 | |
"lying in those bushes for an hour thinking you're going to die?" | 0:04:27 | 0:04:30 | |
I could still use my arms, I could still cuddle Vic, | 0:04:30 | 0:04:33 | |
I could hold his hand. | 0:04:33 | 0:04:35 | |
They were the big things that meant so much to me, | 0:04:35 | 0:04:37 | |
rather than the fact of what I'd lost. | 0:04:37 | 0:04:39 | |
Amanda was determined to focus on the positive, | 0:04:39 | 0:04:42 | |
but it was a shock for the family. | 0:04:42 | 0:04:45 | |
Life was perfect and to have it flip upside down | 0:04:45 | 0:04:49 | |
so quickly is, like, really... | 0:04:49 | 0:04:51 | |
To get your head around, it's really, really hard. | 0:04:51 | 0:04:54 | |
She told us that she won't ever walk again and I remember saying... | 0:04:54 | 0:04:57 | |
I remember telling her that I wished it was me | 0:04:57 | 0:04:58 | |
and, like, crying and everything. | 0:04:58 | 0:05:01 | |
Seeing their faces when they came in, so serious and grave and, | 0:05:02 | 0:05:07 | |
you know, I had to keep trying to reassure them, "I'm fine, I'm fine." | 0:05:07 | 0:05:10 | |
And that's really hard. I did feel a lot of guilt. | 0:05:10 | 0:05:12 | |
To see your own mother in a state like that, it's... | 0:05:12 | 0:05:15 | |
But she just smiles. | 0:05:16 | 0:05:17 | |
It's like... | 0:05:17 | 0:05:19 | |
I couldn't believe how she handled everything. | 0:05:19 | 0:05:23 | |
When you see her cope with it so well... | 0:05:23 | 0:05:25 | |
Like, she carried the whole family. | 0:05:25 | 0:05:27 | |
That's literally the only way to describe her. | 0:05:27 | 0:05:30 | |
Amanda spent six months in rehab at Stoke Mandeville while Vic looked | 0:05:30 | 0:05:34 | |
after the kids and worked full-time. | 0:05:34 | 0:05:37 | |
I get up a couple of hours before I need to go to work, | 0:05:37 | 0:05:39 | |
so I can get some housework done, washing etc. | 0:05:39 | 0:05:43 | |
Then obviously go to work and then come home and help out with whatever | 0:05:43 | 0:05:46 | |
needs to be helped out, dinner, tidying, hovering, you know, | 0:05:46 | 0:05:49 | |
look after the kids here at home. | 0:05:49 | 0:05:51 | |
Yes, Vic stepped up, | 0:05:51 | 0:05:53 | |
but when Amanda left hospital it wasn't the happy ending | 0:05:53 | 0:05:56 | |
that they were all hoping for. | 0:05:56 | 0:05:58 | |
We thought she'd come home and it'd be fine, | 0:05:59 | 0:06:01 | |
we wouldn't need any adaptations or anything, | 0:06:01 | 0:06:04 | |
but she needs a lot more than what we thought. | 0:06:04 | 0:06:08 | |
She needs help pretty much all the time. | 0:06:08 | 0:06:11 | |
Like just going to the bathroom, she needs someone to help her. | 0:06:11 | 0:06:14 | |
Good boy. | 0:06:14 | 0:06:15 | |
Vic did what he could, | 0:06:15 | 0:06:17 | |
putting in a ramp and buying and installing a second-hand stairlift, | 0:06:17 | 0:06:21 | |
but it's not meant for disabled users and is dangerous. | 0:06:21 | 0:06:25 | |
My legs have once spasmed on the way down and got caught in a banister, | 0:06:25 | 0:06:29 | |
so I could have ended up breaking a leg. | 0:06:29 | 0:06:31 | |
That was horrible. | 0:06:31 | 0:06:32 | |
Amanda risks burning herself in the kitchen, | 0:06:32 | 0:06:35 | |
she can't wash by herself and has to use the toilet with the door open. | 0:06:35 | 0:06:40 | |
The biggest heartache for Amanda though is losing her role as a mum. | 0:06:40 | 0:06:44 | |
Being a mum was the one thing in my life that I'd wanted to do, | 0:06:45 | 0:06:48 | |
I'd had these four beautiful children | 0:06:48 | 0:06:50 | |
and my dream was just to be able to bring them up. | 0:06:50 | 0:06:53 | |
But now her kids have become carers to her. | 0:06:53 | 0:06:57 | |
I do appreciate everything you do for me, | 0:06:57 | 0:07:00 | |
but I would rather that we could turn it round | 0:07:00 | 0:07:02 | |
so that I could do it all for you again, | 0:07:02 | 0:07:05 | |
and that you can have your mum back, even if she can't walk, | 0:07:05 | 0:07:09 | |
but you can have me back in every other capacity. | 0:07:09 | 0:07:11 | |
We need to make that happen. | 0:07:11 | 0:07:13 | |
What will make your life better? | 0:07:15 | 0:07:17 | |
A house where I can function and be a role of the mother to my children | 0:07:17 | 0:07:23 | |
and actually do things that I normally | 0:07:23 | 0:07:25 | |
would be able to do for myself, | 0:07:25 | 0:07:27 | |
but this house has been so restrictive for me. | 0:07:27 | 0:07:29 | |
-What do you miss? -What do I miss? I miss being able to cook. | 0:07:29 | 0:07:32 | |
I couldn't, with the old oven that I had, | 0:07:32 | 0:07:35 | |
use it because it was so dangerous. | 0:07:35 | 0:07:36 | |
I don't mean to be rude by asking, | 0:07:36 | 0:07:38 | |
but it's important if you're cooking, | 0:07:38 | 0:07:39 | |
-where you could possibly spill burning hot things on you... -Yes. | 0:07:39 | 0:07:42 | |
..do you have much feeling in the leg area at all? | 0:07:42 | 0:07:44 | |
-I think it's more dangerous because I don't. -Precisely. | 0:07:44 | 0:07:46 | |
So I could have hot fat on my legs and not know. | 0:07:46 | 0:07:48 | |
A couple of times I'd go to bed and I'd have blisters. | 0:07:48 | 0:07:50 | |
Would it make a big difference to life in the house | 0:07:50 | 0:07:52 | |
-if we can get things sorted out for you? -Yeah, absolutely. | 0:07:52 | 0:07:55 | |
Obviously, yeah, we'll get through it, | 0:07:55 | 0:07:56 | |
-but it's just a bit tough at times. -Tough. -Tough. | 0:07:56 | 0:07:58 | |
I felt so guilty that I had the accident and what I've caused, | 0:07:58 | 0:08:02 | |
and I feel frustrated because I can't do anything to make it better. | 0:08:02 | 0:08:07 | |
We know some people who might be able to make it better. | 0:08:07 | 0:08:09 | |
Would you like to meet the guys outside and say hello to them? | 0:08:09 | 0:08:11 | |
Yes, say hello to them all. Yeah, go out and say hello. | 0:08:11 | 0:08:15 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:08:15 | 0:08:17 | |
I can't believe how many people are here. | 0:08:19 | 0:08:21 | |
I'm just completely blown away | 0:08:21 | 0:08:23 | |
because since I've had my accident I feel | 0:08:23 | 0:08:25 | |
I've had the role of mum stolen away from me and my children have | 0:08:25 | 0:08:28 | |
had to grow up so quick. So you're giving that back to me. | 0:08:28 | 0:08:31 | |
-I can't thank you enough. Thank you very much. -No. | 0:08:31 | 0:08:33 | |
It's lovely to see you all here and I just hope you have a nice time | 0:08:33 | 0:08:36 | |
doing it because we're going to have the rest of our lives here to enjoy | 0:08:36 | 0:08:39 | |
your work, as a mum! | 0:08:39 | 0:08:40 | |
-Thank you. -Thank you. Thank you very much. | 0:08:40 | 0:08:43 | |
Well, there's no better motivation than that, is there? | 0:08:43 | 0:08:47 | |
To give us a fighting chance, | 0:08:47 | 0:08:48 | |
we've already knocked down the old conservatory | 0:08:48 | 0:08:51 | |
ready for a replacement extension. | 0:08:51 | 0:08:53 | |
So now we can flood the site with local trades. | 0:08:55 | 0:08:58 | |
This house is small and we can't build out much further | 0:08:58 | 0:09:01 | |
than the current floor plan. So to make it work for Amanda, | 0:09:01 | 0:09:05 | |
we're going to have to completely change the layout. | 0:09:05 | 0:09:07 | |
You come in here, you give me 20 minutes or up to one hour | 0:09:09 | 0:09:12 | |
and we've got the house completely stripped. It's mad. | 0:09:12 | 0:09:14 | |
Unfortunately, it takes a little bit longer to put together again. | 0:09:14 | 0:09:17 | |
We've got some demolition demons on this job. | 0:09:17 | 0:09:20 | |
-Someone squashed the shed, who was that? -That was Donk. | 0:09:20 | 0:09:23 | |
-Donk? -I've got a Donk. -Right. | 0:09:23 | 0:09:25 | |
-Is that because he's a bit of a unit? -He took that... | 0:09:25 | 0:09:28 | |
I didn't have to grind that stuff out, he just pulled it out. | 0:09:28 | 0:09:31 | |
Half a shed. | 0:09:31 | 0:09:33 | |
HE LAUGHS | 0:09:33 | 0:09:35 | |
Yep, definitely a young man's game this. | 0:09:35 | 0:09:38 | |
How old are you now? HE CLEARS HIS THROAT | 0:09:38 | 0:09:41 | |
He's 20 years younger than me and I'm... | 0:09:41 | 0:09:43 | |
HE CLEARS HIS THROAT | 0:09:43 | 0:09:45 | |
120, Billy? | 0:09:45 | 0:09:46 | |
Anything else you noticed as you got older? | 0:09:46 | 0:09:48 | |
Yeah. | 0:09:49 | 0:09:51 | |
Yeah, yeah, there is a few things. | 0:09:51 | 0:09:53 | |
Want to share any of them? | 0:09:53 | 0:09:54 | |
-Because otherwise it's a really dull question. -Hmm... | 0:09:54 | 0:09:59 | |
What's the question? | 0:10:01 | 0:10:02 | |
What was the question? | 0:10:02 | 0:10:04 | |
I can't remember. I literally cannot remember, | 0:10:04 | 0:10:06 | |
-that's how dull the answer was. -Yeah. Hmm. | 0:10:06 | 0:10:09 | |
So you don't get any more exciting as you get older, do you? | 0:10:09 | 0:10:12 | |
HE LAUGHS | 0:10:12 | 0:10:15 | |
You can see all the way through the house now, which is nice, isn't it? | 0:10:16 | 0:10:19 | |
Now that we've taken a couple of walls out. | 0:10:19 | 0:10:21 | |
Come and have a look, let me show you the bathroom. There you go. | 0:10:21 | 0:10:24 | |
Now it's open plan. | 0:10:24 | 0:10:27 | |
Well, the stair lift's going straight to the skip | 0:10:27 | 0:10:29 | |
and Jules has a long journey ahead. | 0:10:29 | 0:10:32 | |
I'm going out to the back garden, | 0:10:32 | 0:10:34 | |
but it's about three miles away because I've got to go up the road, | 0:10:34 | 0:10:39 | |
around the streets, out onto the main road, | 0:10:39 | 0:10:43 | |
a load of other main roads and come around the back. | 0:10:43 | 0:10:45 | |
So it's probably going to take me about an hour and a half. | 0:10:45 | 0:10:48 | |
So I'll see you shortly. | 0:10:48 | 0:10:50 | |
Through the magic of TV, | 0:10:54 | 0:10:55 | |
we can get straight to the back and see the extension arriving. | 0:10:55 | 0:10:59 | |
Two walls up already, we've been, like, an hour on it. | 0:10:59 | 0:11:02 | |
-So how long do you reckon? -What, until finished? | 0:11:02 | 0:11:05 | |
-Yeah. -A couple of hours. | 0:11:05 | 0:11:08 | |
Jules might have made it to the back garden by then. | 0:11:08 | 0:11:10 | |
Our progress upstairs has slowed to snail's pace, too. | 0:11:15 | 0:11:19 | |
We've uncovered this steel. | 0:11:19 | 0:11:20 | |
It was put in by Vic when he converted the loft, | 0:11:20 | 0:11:23 | |
but with the new layout, we'll need to move it. | 0:11:23 | 0:11:25 | |
You'd think we could just cut it out and get going, | 0:11:25 | 0:11:27 | |
but this holds everything up. If we take this out, | 0:11:27 | 0:11:29 | |
the converted loft falls into this room's floor | 0:11:29 | 0:11:33 | |
which falls into the floor below. | 0:11:33 | 0:11:34 | |
We'll need a detailed and complicated plan to move it. | 0:11:34 | 0:11:37 | |
Are we doing all this just to get rid of that post into this wall? | 0:11:37 | 0:11:42 | |
-Basically. -So what he's done is perfect. | 0:11:42 | 0:11:44 | |
Oh, what he's done is perfect, but it doesn't suit the new design. | 0:11:44 | 0:11:47 | |
The designer wanted a bigger landing. | 0:11:47 | 0:11:49 | |
So we're not doing this because we actually need it for space for the | 0:11:49 | 0:11:52 | |
-lift or anything else? -No, no. | 0:11:52 | 0:11:53 | |
-We're doing it because the designer wants a bigger landing? -Yeah. | 0:11:53 | 0:11:56 | |
And the thorn in our side designing this home is Sophie Robinson, | 0:11:57 | 0:12:01 | |
bringing a burst of colour. | 0:12:01 | 0:12:03 | |
And I mean a lot of colour, | 0:12:03 | 0:12:04 | |
like hurt-your-eyes kind of colour, so much colour. | 0:12:04 | 0:12:07 | |
Look at you, the bottom half of you disappears into that wall | 0:12:07 | 0:12:10 | |
and the top half of you disappears into that wall. | 0:12:10 | 0:12:12 | |
-Yeah, yeah, perfect. -You've dressed colour appropriately. | 0:12:12 | 0:12:15 | |
I'm channelling, yeah, Amanda's love of colour. | 0:12:15 | 0:12:17 | |
They're primary colours you wear. | 0:12:17 | 0:12:19 | |
Yeah, yeah, they're good, aren't they? | 0:12:19 | 0:12:20 | |
We wear black on this site. This is what we do, we wear black. | 0:12:20 | 0:12:23 | |
-Yeah, you won't catch me in black. -Not going to happen? | 0:12:23 | 0:12:25 | |
-Not going to happen. -OK. | 0:12:25 | 0:12:26 | |
Sophie's plan for this house is all about giving Amanda access | 0:12:26 | 0:12:29 | |
to as much of it as possible. | 0:12:29 | 0:12:32 | |
The kitchen will have a rise-and-fall worktop | 0:12:32 | 0:12:34 | |
so Amanda can get back to the cooking she loves. | 0:12:34 | 0:12:37 | |
The living room will be extended to give the family | 0:12:37 | 0:12:39 | |
somewhere wheelchair-friendly to be together. | 0:12:39 | 0:12:43 | |
There'll be a dining area and cosy sofa, | 0:12:43 | 0:12:46 | |
all leading to the new garden. | 0:12:46 | 0:12:49 | |
We're putting in a proper lift so Amanda can | 0:12:49 | 0:12:51 | |
easily and safely get upstairs, where she'll have a new wet room, | 0:12:51 | 0:12:54 | |
a luxurious bedroom for her and Vic and she'll be able to get to her | 0:12:54 | 0:12:58 | |
younger kids bedrooms to kiss them good night | 0:12:58 | 0:13:00 | |
and we'll decorate the loft rooms, | 0:13:00 | 0:13:02 | |
but right now it's an empty shell. | 0:13:02 | 0:13:04 | |
I understand the reason that we're having to do all this upstairs is | 0:13:04 | 0:13:07 | |
because you want this post moved from here to there. | 0:13:07 | 0:13:10 | |
Yeah, because the lift is going here and for Amanda to be able to get out | 0:13:10 | 0:13:14 | |
of the lift and move freely around and access all the rooms, | 0:13:14 | 0:13:16 | |
she doesn't want to be going around that. | 0:13:16 | 0:13:18 | |
OK, we thought it was style thing the bigger landing, | 0:13:18 | 0:13:20 | |
-but you're say it's a turning circle? -Totally, to give her access to all the rooms. | 0:13:20 | 0:13:24 | |
The most challenging part of this whole project, | 0:13:24 | 0:13:26 | |
from a design point of view, is how are we going to get everything in | 0:13:26 | 0:13:29 | |
and give everybody the space that they need? | 0:13:29 | 0:13:31 | |
In such a tight space, have we got room for those earrings? | 0:13:31 | 0:13:34 | |
She's up for a laugh, our Sophie, | 0:13:35 | 0:13:37 | |
and with those earrings on who can blame her? | 0:13:37 | 0:13:40 | |
Oh, look, steel's coming in. | 0:13:40 | 0:13:43 | |
Meanwhile, after an epic quest across the land, | 0:13:43 | 0:13:46 | |
being overtaken by small children on scooters, | 0:13:46 | 0:13:49 | |
our Devon friend has made it the realm of the back garden. | 0:13:49 | 0:13:54 | |
HORN BEEPS | 0:13:54 | 0:13:56 | |
Flies in my teeth. I had to put my glasses on, | 0:13:58 | 0:14:00 | |
I was getting all the flies in my eyes. | 0:14:00 | 0:14:03 | |
Such high-speed. | 0:14:03 | 0:14:05 | |
That was good fun, though. I enjoyed that. | 0:14:05 | 0:14:07 | |
And now he's in his natural environment, digging a hole. | 0:14:09 | 0:14:12 | |
No-one has any idea why. | 0:14:12 | 0:14:15 | |
Meanwhile upstairs, Chris the steel man | 0:14:15 | 0:14:17 | |
is about to make our design structurally sound. | 0:14:17 | 0:14:20 | |
This huge support steel needs to run the width of the ceiling | 0:14:20 | 0:14:24 | |
on the first floor. | 0:14:24 | 0:14:26 | |
Interesting steel system going in. | 0:14:28 | 0:14:31 | |
Yeah. Cut this column out, new steel in, new column in. | 0:14:31 | 0:14:34 | |
-Then away we go. -When are we thinking of putting those steels in? | 0:14:34 | 0:14:37 | |
As soon as you're ready. | 0:14:37 | 0:14:39 | |
Well, it needs to be ASAP, as everything's being built round it. | 0:14:39 | 0:14:43 | |
But with this lot of grafters on site, it shouldn't be long. | 0:14:43 | 0:14:46 | |
One of our hard-working volunteers has a very special connection | 0:14:46 | 0:14:49 | |
to Amanda. It was Gary who found her by the road after her accident. | 0:14:49 | 0:14:53 | |
I was on a regular Sunday ride and I was grinding my way up Berryhill | 0:14:53 | 0:14:59 | |
and just heard voices from the undergrowth, basically, | 0:14:59 | 0:15:01 | |
cries for help. I went poking around in the undergrowth | 0:15:01 | 0:15:03 | |
-and there she was. -Have you got any medical training? | 0:15:03 | 0:15:06 | |
Yeah, I have. I did seven or eight years in the coastguard. | 0:15:06 | 0:15:09 | |
-Well, there you go. -So I've done a bit from that. | 0:15:09 | 0:15:11 | |
She was the most beaten up person I have ever come across | 0:15:11 | 0:15:14 | |
that was still alive. She knew exactly what was going on. | 0:15:14 | 0:15:17 | |
I didn't tell her, because I didn't know how she would react. | 0:15:17 | 0:15:20 | |
But she could only actually move one arm. | 0:15:20 | 0:15:21 | |
It was very apparent that she'd a broken collarbone | 0:15:21 | 0:15:24 | |
and she had no feeling in her legs, so she couldn't move at all. | 0:15:24 | 0:15:27 | |
You've since become friends with her, haven't you? | 0:15:27 | 0:15:29 | |
-Yeah, we're great friends. -So what sort of person is she? | 0:15:29 | 0:15:32 | |
Because we obviously get to meet a snapshot of her in her life now. | 0:15:32 | 0:15:35 | |
-Yeah. -But she seems unbelievably positive and strong-willed. | 0:15:35 | 0:15:40 | |
She is. She's a very strong person in many ways | 0:15:40 | 0:15:43 | |
and she's dealt with it incredibly well. | 0:15:43 | 0:15:46 | |
So what's the future like, then, | 0:15:46 | 0:15:47 | |
if we get the house sorted out for them and she gets some of that | 0:15:47 | 0:15:51 | |
-independence back? -It will just transform her life. | 0:15:51 | 0:15:53 | |
Do you like what we've done with it so far? | 0:15:53 | 0:15:55 | |
Yeah, it looks good! | 0:15:55 | 0:15:57 | |
We're laughing, because it's such a mess but things are happening. | 0:15:59 | 0:16:03 | |
There's drainage for the new wet room | 0:16:03 | 0:16:05 | |
and electrics are in the capable hands | 0:16:05 | 0:16:07 | |
of our little prince of darkness, | 0:16:07 | 0:16:09 | |
whose great trick is to hand on responsibility. | 0:16:09 | 0:16:12 | |
This is Calum. He's going to be signing everything... | 0:16:13 | 0:16:15 | |
My new best mate. | 0:16:15 | 0:16:16 | |
He's going to be signing everything off, so this is our band of heroes. | 0:16:16 | 0:16:20 | |
And what we're going to do, we're going to do a room, room, room, | 0:16:20 | 0:16:23 | |
rather than spread us all over the place. | 0:16:23 | 0:16:26 | |
Hopefully, that's the way they've organised it | 0:16:26 | 0:16:28 | |
and that's the way we'll do it. | 0:16:28 | 0:16:29 | |
Yeah, but that might not actually happen, Billy. | 0:16:29 | 0:16:33 | |
Hold on, stop drilling a minute! | 0:16:33 | 0:16:36 | |
One second, everybody. | 0:16:36 | 0:16:38 | |
I need the electricians and the plumbers | 0:16:38 | 0:16:40 | |
and the joiners out the front for five minutes. | 0:16:40 | 0:16:43 | |
We've got a change on the inside of the building. | 0:16:43 | 0:16:46 | |
It's become apparent whilst putting the big steel in upstairs, | 0:16:46 | 0:16:49 | |
that if we put it where we've got it at the moment, | 0:16:49 | 0:16:51 | |
we can't fit in the lift. | 0:16:51 | 0:16:53 | |
So something has to change. | 0:16:53 | 0:16:55 | |
So basically, the lift has got a ceiling and a floor on, | 0:16:55 | 0:16:57 | |
so as that goes up, that's going to strike the steel in the top ceiling. | 0:16:57 | 0:17:03 | |
The biggest issue with this build | 0:17:03 | 0:17:04 | |
has been getting this lift in this house. | 0:17:04 | 0:17:07 | |
It's been so hard and now we've just found out that the steels are | 0:17:07 | 0:17:10 | |
going to encroach into the lift shaft | 0:17:10 | 0:17:12 | |
and the lift won't be able to hit the ceiling. | 0:17:12 | 0:17:15 | |
It looks like we're going to have to do the unthinkable, | 0:17:15 | 0:17:17 | |
change the whole layout to move the lift. | 0:17:17 | 0:17:20 | |
So we need to do something with that WC, but that lift needs to move. | 0:17:20 | 0:17:23 | |
This means changing the electrics, plumbing, everything. | 0:17:23 | 0:17:26 | |
This could put us massively behind. | 0:17:26 | 0:17:30 | |
So we're proposing to put the lift where the WC upstairs is. | 0:17:30 | 0:17:32 | |
Yeah. | 0:17:32 | 0:17:34 | |
But the biggest effect of changing the design | 0:17:34 | 0:17:36 | |
is Amanda might end up with less usable space for her wheelchair. | 0:17:36 | 0:17:40 | |
Yeah, you lose something upstairs, don't you? | 0:17:40 | 0:17:42 | |
Which means there's no storage in Amanda and Vic's bedroom. | 0:17:42 | 0:17:46 | |
In the end, we can't compromise the structure of the house. | 0:17:46 | 0:17:49 | |
Our only option is to keep the layout as it is, | 0:17:49 | 0:17:52 | |
but raise the new steel into the ceiling | 0:17:52 | 0:17:54 | |
above the reach of the lift shaft, but that means our steel man | 0:17:54 | 0:17:57 | |
needs to find a longer upright support. | 0:17:57 | 0:18:01 | |
-That post, can that be extended? -I'll go and have a measure... -OK. | 0:18:01 | 0:18:04 | |
..see what I've got and I'll come back to you. | 0:18:04 | 0:18:06 | |
-OK. -Yeah. -The weight of this whole building is resting | 0:18:06 | 0:18:09 | |
on his shoulders and his steels. | 0:18:09 | 0:18:11 | |
Dealing with unexpected difficulties is something Amanda knows all about. | 0:18:14 | 0:18:18 | |
Since she became paralysed, | 0:18:18 | 0:18:20 | |
she visits schools to help inspire kids | 0:18:20 | 0:18:22 | |
to overcome problems in their lives. | 0:18:22 | 0:18:25 | |
This is me doing my first race and I'm going to do London Marathon | 0:18:27 | 0:18:31 | |
next year as well. I'm very, very lucky. | 0:18:31 | 0:18:33 | |
We want to look back at 90 and think, "I'm really glad I did that. | 0:18:33 | 0:18:36 | |
"I did all of those things." | 0:18:36 | 0:18:38 | |
But it's not always rosy for Amanda and her family. | 0:18:39 | 0:18:42 | |
Because of the house, | 0:18:42 | 0:18:43 | |
sons Joe and Jacob have had to take on roles way beyond their years. | 0:18:43 | 0:18:48 | |
She's been kind of amazing about it. | 0:18:49 | 0:18:51 | |
It's kind of almost harder for you lot to get your heads around what's | 0:18:51 | 0:18:55 | |
-going on, I'd have thought. -It was a little bit shocking. | 0:18:55 | 0:18:58 | |
My life was really good at the time, | 0:18:58 | 0:19:00 | |
I really enjoyed life and then till then, | 0:19:00 | 0:19:02 | |
-it kind of hit a dead end. -Is that what it felt like? | 0:19:02 | 0:19:05 | |
-A little bit. -Kind of things... | 0:19:05 | 0:19:07 | |
Normal life had come to a stop? | 0:19:07 | 0:19:09 | |
-Yeah. -Your mum says that you've done... | 0:19:09 | 0:19:13 | |
You've kind of all turned into carers a little bit for her. | 0:19:13 | 0:19:15 | |
Yeah, I mean, there's times when I've walked down the stairs | 0:19:15 | 0:19:18 | |
and she's lying on the floor where she's fallen out her wheelchair. | 0:19:18 | 0:19:21 | |
Obviously, she can't do anything, so I've got to go over and pick her up. | 0:19:21 | 0:19:23 | |
There's times in the mornings when we've got to help her. | 0:19:23 | 0:19:27 | |
With dinner, she can't put stuff in the oven or take stuff out the | 0:19:27 | 0:19:30 | |
oven, so we're always on call to just help her. | 0:19:30 | 0:19:32 | |
Yeah, it's like you can't really be a kid any more. | 0:19:32 | 0:19:35 | |
You have to really step up and, like, grow up and just take it. | 0:19:35 | 0:19:40 | |
It must be so hard for her to have all the responsibility and all the | 0:19:40 | 0:19:42 | |
independence just stripped from her overnight. | 0:19:42 | 0:19:45 | |
I think that's what she finds the most, | 0:19:45 | 0:19:47 | |
that she's a 45-year-old woman and she can't look after herself. | 0:19:47 | 0:19:52 | |
But she does have her bad days, like everyone does, | 0:19:52 | 0:19:55 | |
and she tries to hide it and she tries to stay as | 0:19:55 | 0:19:59 | |
strong as she can, but everyone must know deep down, like, | 0:19:59 | 0:20:02 | |
living without your legs must be so difficult. | 0:20:02 | 0:20:04 | |
So how proud are you of the way she's dealt with | 0:20:06 | 0:20:09 | |
what she's been dealt, if you know what I mean? | 0:20:09 | 0:20:12 | |
Words can't describe it. | 0:20:12 | 0:20:14 | |
I don't know how she's done it at all. | 0:20:14 | 0:20:16 | |
And she makes us all so proud. | 0:20:16 | 0:20:19 | |
We have a choice to make whether to actually improve, like, | 0:20:19 | 0:20:21 | |
the areas for you guys or concentrate on getting | 0:20:21 | 0:20:25 | |
the downstairs sorted for your mum, in terms of being able to move | 0:20:25 | 0:20:29 | |
around the house and things. So what's the priority? | 0:20:29 | 0:20:32 | |
-For mum. -Definitely. -Yeah. | 0:20:32 | 0:20:34 | |
She really likes being independent and then sometimes, | 0:20:34 | 0:20:36 | |
she says to me it's like living in a prison. | 0:20:36 | 0:20:38 | |
It's like living inside a cage. | 0:20:38 | 0:20:40 | |
Like, she wants to do stuff. | 0:20:40 | 0:20:41 | |
She wants to cook. She wants to help us with stuff but she can't because | 0:20:41 | 0:20:45 | |
it's not accessible. | 0:20:45 | 0:20:46 | |
By doing the downstairs, you're sort of bringing our family life back, | 0:20:46 | 0:20:50 | |
which has been missing for the past year. | 0:20:50 | 0:20:52 | |
So that would be doing... | 0:20:52 | 0:20:53 | |
That's better than anything anyone could ever give us, | 0:20:53 | 0:20:56 | |
to restore normality, basically, is a dream. | 0:20:56 | 0:20:59 | |
Great lads, eh? | 0:21:01 | 0:21:02 | |
However, it's a dream that won't come true unless we can | 0:21:02 | 0:21:05 | |
get the lift in without compromising the space for Amanda. | 0:21:05 | 0:21:08 | |
The calculations are being made to see if the steel can be raised. | 0:21:11 | 0:21:14 | |
Tell me the plan. Tell me the plan of attack. | 0:21:15 | 0:21:18 | |
-It fits. -It fits? | 0:21:18 | 0:21:19 | |
-It fits. -Yes! Whoo! | 0:21:19 | 0:21:23 | |
-Give him a round, lads. -CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:21:23 | 0:21:26 | |
Right, panic over. | 0:21:28 | 0:21:29 | |
Yeah, we're back in business. | 0:21:29 | 0:21:32 | |
One, two, three, lift. | 0:21:32 | 0:21:34 | |
Not only are they really professional in what they're doing, | 0:21:37 | 0:21:40 | |
but they really care for Amanda, because they met Amanda | 0:21:40 | 0:21:42 | |
and the family and they just want to make it right for her. | 0:21:42 | 0:21:46 | |
It's like a band of brothers, us lot, | 0:21:46 | 0:21:48 | |
and then we get a bigger band of brothers wherever we go. | 0:21:48 | 0:21:50 | |
And how amazing that we get the chance to do a job like | 0:21:50 | 0:21:53 | |
this and at the end of it, a mum gets to be a mum again? | 0:21:53 | 0:21:56 | |
It's not just Amanda that everyone's working so hard for. | 0:21:57 | 0:22:02 | |
Their situation they're in at the moment | 0:22:02 | 0:22:04 | |
where the lady's in the wheelchair, I've had to care for my old man | 0:22:04 | 0:22:07 | |
through a young age. I was very young and it ain't easy, | 0:22:07 | 0:22:09 | |
do you know what I mean? Having been a carer, it's not. | 0:22:09 | 0:22:13 | |
This, what we're doing now, is giving her freedom back. | 0:22:13 | 0:22:15 | |
That's good enough for me to be here | 0:22:15 | 0:22:17 | |
and give up my time if it's giving the kids in there back their mum, | 0:22:17 | 0:22:21 | |
freedom and happiness. | 0:22:21 | 0:22:23 | |
Thank you, sir. And look what your time has done already... | 0:22:23 | 0:22:26 | |
Big day upstairs. All new windows throughout. | 0:22:29 | 0:22:32 | |
The big change is moving this little pole from here to here, | 0:22:32 | 0:22:35 | |
so we've got a new steel in here and a new extension on here and we've | 0:22:35 | 0:22:40 | |
made a start on the garden. | 0:22:40 | 0:22:41 | |
Look, there's even a roof on and it's waterproof. | 0:22:41 | 0:22:44 | |
That's pretty impressive, isn't it? | 0:22:44 | 0:22:46 | |
And that was just day one. | 0:22:46 | 0:22:48 | |
It's now day two and a hive of activity on site. | 0:22:48 | 0:22:51 | |
Everyone's trying to catch up after yesterday's delay, but it does mean | 0:22:51 | 0:22:55 | |
some people can't get at the job. | 0:22:55 | 0:22:57 | |
Wondering why I'm just poised outside? | 0:22:59 | 0:23:02 | |
There's a little house and there's 15 chippies chippying, | 0:23:02 | 0:23:05 | |
20 sparkies sparkying, ten plumbers plumbing. | 0:23:05 | 0:23:09 | |
I can't physically get in there. | 0:23:09 | 0:23:11 | |
So I'm just checking all my materials | 0:23:11 | 0:23:12 | |
and getting a game plan in my head ready for tomorrow. | 0:23:12 | 0:23:15 | |
When the door opens for plasterers, | 0:23:15 | 0:23:17 | |
they'll fly in that little house. | 0:23:17 | 0:23:18 | |
He's like a coiled spring and the walls are going up, Chris, | 0:23:18 | 0:23:21 | |
so it won't be long. | 0:23:21 | 0:23:22 | |
We're starting to see what this house might look like. | 0:23:22 | 0:23:25 | |
To be able to adapt this house for Amanda's wheelchair use, | 0:23:25 | 0:23:28 | |
has been so uber-challenging, | 0:23:28 | 0:23:30 | |
and it has meant that the bedrooms have had to come down in size. | 0:23:30 | 0:23:33 | |
For Joe, especially, this is his bedroom, but I think space aside, | 0:23:33 | 0:23:37 | |
design aside, storage aside, you know, | 0:23:37 | 0:23:40 | |
one of the most important things about this bedroom | 0:23:40 | 0:23:43 | |
is that Amanda can actually get in here | 0:23:43 | 0:23:45 | |
and tuck her little boy in at night, | 0:23:45 | 0:23:47 | |
because it absolutely breaks my heart that since her accident, | 0:23:47 | 0:23:50 | |
she hasn't been able to do that. | 0:23:50 | 0:23:52 | |
We're giving Amanda at home but we're also giving her back | 0:23:52 | 0:23:55 | |
the opportunity to be a mum. | 0:23:55 | 0:23:56 | |
And that's just the best feeling ever. | 0:23:56 | 0:23:59 | |
And one of the ways we're going to do that is by making | 0:23:59 | 0:24:02 | |
the ground floor level throughout. | 0:24:02 | 0:24:04 | |
Out the back, Jules's big hole turns out to be a soak away, | 0:24:04 | 0:24:08 | |
that's what he's digging, which will capture any ground water, | 0:24:08 | 0:24:10 | |
stopping flooding in the house. | 0:24:10 | 0:24:12 | |
I'll just finished my breakfast and I'll come play diggers, too. | 0:24:12 | 0:24:15 | |
Nick's not very well. He's not going to be in for a bit. | 0:24:15 | 0:24:17 | |
He's got that problem where his head's stuck to the pillow again? | 0:24:17 | 0:24:20 | |
-I think so, yeah. -Or is it an ear wax problem? | 0:24:20 | 0:24:23 | |
I'm here. A man's got to eat, you know?! | 0:24:23 | 0:24:26 | |
-Right. -You've got it on your chin. | 0:24:26 | 0:24:29 | |
-Have I? -Not that one, the other one. | 0:24:29 | 0:24:31 | |
What is it with people insulting me today? | 0:24:33 | 0:24:35 | |
Hang on... | 0:24:35 | 0:24:36 | |
What are we going to do with the garden? | 0:24:36 | 0:24:38 | |
We've got a lovely little plan for the garden. | 0:24:38 | 0:24:40 | |
It's going to have flowers in it. | 0:24:40 | 0:24:42 | |
It's going to have mud and it's going to have little bits of wall. | 0:24:42 | 0:24:44 | |
You've done a lot of landscaping, haven't you?! | 0:24:44 | 0:24:47 | |
It's going to have flowers and mud in it! | 0:24:47 | 0:24:50 | |
Talking of landscaping.... | 0:24:50 | 0:24:52 | |
-What happened to the hole? -It's gone. | 0:24:52 | 0:24:55 | |
-We like to show the viewer at home... -Yeah? | 0:24:55 | 0:24:59 | |
-..what goes on. -You were here late, right? | 0:24:59 | 0:25:02 | |
You grabbed the camera. | 0:25:02 | 0:25:04 | |
I hardly grabbed the camera, did I? | 0:25:04 | 0:25:06 | |
-So therefore... -It gravitates towards me. | 0:25:06 | 0:25:08 | |
I called the second camera operative. | 0:25:08 | 0:25:11 | |
What were the pictures like? Were they any good? | 0:25:13 | 0:25:16 | |
Yeah, actually, they're not bad. | 0:25:17 | 0:25:18 | |
You can see the soak away. | 0:25:18 | 0:25:21 | |
Can you talk us through those...? | 0:25:21 | 0:25:24 | |
That's where I keep all my tricks. | 0:25:24 | 0:25:25 | |
I thought it was maybe in case you find yourself in an area where you | 0:25:25 | 0:25:28 | |
needed to put out lots of candles quickly. | 0:25:28 | 0:25:32 | |
Have you ever been linked up to the circus at all at any point? | 0:25:32 | 0:25:35 | |
-Where's your earrings today? -Oh, they're killing me, man! | 0:25:35 | 0:25:38 | |
My ears are killing me. | 0:25:38 | 0:25:40 | |
-I've got some great news. -Well, let us be the judge of that. | 0:25:40 | 0:25:43 | |
-You can't just announce it. -You are going to love this. -Really? | 0:25:43 | 0:25:46 | |
-You are going to so love this. -OK, go on. | 0:25:46 | 0:25:47 | |
You know you wanted this leather apron for Amanda? | 0:25:47 | 0:25:50 | |
For Amanda, so she can cook safely without a lot of fat dropping | 0:25:50 | 0:25:53 | |
-on her legs, yeah. -Yeah, which is a really lovely idea. | 0:25:53 | 0:25:55 | |
-Can't find a local leather worker, that's the trouble. -Well... | 0:25:55 | 0:25:58 | |
Oh, she's only found the creme de la creme | 0:25:58 | 0:26:00 | |
of leather workers. | 0:26:00 | 0:26:01 | |
-Hello. -Hello. -Hi. How are you doing? | 0:26:01 | 0:26:04 | |
-Welcome. -Good to see you. | 0:26:04 | 0:26:06 | |
We've got a fairly weird request. | 0:26:06 | 0:26:08 | |
And we're delighted to help. We are able to do anything you wish. | 0:26:08 | 0:26:11 | |
She's the designer, which basically means | 0:26:11 | 0:26:13 | |
she wanders around going, | 0:26:13 | 0:26:15 | |
-"Hello, flowers, hello, trees, hello, plants." -Plumping cushions. | 0:26:15 | 0:26:18 | |
And I'm a practical kind of person with the team, | 0:26:18 | 0:26:20 | |
so we want things to look elegant. | 0:26:20 | 0:26:22 | |
I think that's why I'M here, | 0:26:22 | 0:26:25 | |
is to throw a little bit on on both sides. | 0:26:25 | 0:26:27 | |
-Really, you're here to mediate? -Yes. -Shall we take a look? | 0:26:27 | 0:26:31 | |
-Come on in. -May the battle commence. | 0:26:31 | 0:26:34 | |
I want to create something that feels feminine, | 0:26:34 | 0:26:36 | |
that feels like a kitchen pinny, not like a big leather barbecue. | 0:26:36 | 0:26:38 | |
So this could be pink. | 0:26:38 | 0:26:40 | |
She's going to next ask for you to put frills on it. | 0:26:40 | 0:26:42 | |
Don't put frills on it. | 0:26:42 | 0:26:44 | |
Now that's elegant and brown. | 0:26:44 | 0:26:48 | |
I just went to the loo and I blew my nose. | 0:26:48 | 0:26:51 | |
Not on this bit, on another but, obviously. | 0:26:51 | 0:26:53 | |
But I thought, "What a lovely colour." | 0:26:53 | 0:26:55 | |
Leave the design to us, big guy. | 0:26:55 | 0:26:57 | |
In terms of the design, I'm bringing in lots of flowers, | 0:26:57 | 0:27:00 | |
butterfly motifs, you know, all of that kind of stuff. | 0:27:00 | 0:27:02 | |
Well, I think at the moment, Nick's winning | 0:27:02 | 0:27:04 | |
the battle of designs because... | 0:27:04 | 0:27:06 | |
But I think Sophie's going to play a crafty one and when we go, | 0:27:06 | 0:27:12 | |
she's going to stay behind and have her final say anyway. | 0:27:12 | 0:27:16 | |
So I think anything that Nick says at this point is pretty pointless. | 0:27:16 | 0:27:21 | |
Yeah, what does he know? | 0:27:21 | 0:27:22 | |
I can tell by the look of their faces, I've got this. | 0:27:22 | 0:27:26 | |
Home, Jules, and don't spare the horses. | 0:27:26 | 0:27:28 | |
HE LAUGHS | 0:27:28 | 0:27:31 | |
And whilst we're in a Roller, back on site, Chris is on a roll... | 0:27:31 | 0:27:34 | |
-Fandabbydosey! -..with his boys chomping at the bit. | 0:27:34 | 0:27:37 | |
I don't think I've ever seen so many plasterers in such a tight space. | 0:27:40 | 0:27:43 | |
It's the way to do it, though, isn't it? | 0:27:43 | 0:27:45 | |
-How many have you got here? -16. | 0:27:45 | 0:27:47 | |
And they're all happy and they're all bouncy and they're all joking. | 0:27:47 | 0:27:51 | |
-Yeah. -That's the plasterer's way, isn't it? | 0:27:51 | 0:27:54 | |
They're not a miserable bunch at all, are they? | 0:27:54 | 0:27:56 | |
-No, no, no, no. -The whole house is feeling the love. | 0:27:56 | 0:28:00 | |
We had a floor go down last night, which was rather nice. | 0:28:00 | 0:28:03 | |
So it's all pretty much level throughout the house now, | 0:28:03 | 0:28:06 | |
and this has got to be the level of the finished garden as well, | 0:28:06 | 0:28:08 | |
which is where he's going and he's going. | 0:28:08 | 0:28:11 | |
So let's take a look at the garden. | 0:28:11 | 0:28:13 | |
Nice mood board, I like that. | 0:28:13 | 0:28:15 | |
Look, can I put this mood board next to your moob board? | 0:28:15 | 0:28:18 | |
THEY LAUGH | 0:28:18 | 0:28:21 | |
So roof's done. | 0:28:21 | 0:28:22 | |
Lunchtime on day three. | 0:28:22 | 0:28:24 | |
HE LAUGHS | 0:28:24 | 0:28:26 | |
And with the roof done, it means the scaffold can come down. | 0:28:26 | 0:28:29 | |
Hang on, isn't that a record? | 0:28:29 | 0:28:31 | |
This has got to be some kind of record, hasn't it? | 0:28:31 | 0:28:33 | |
Absolutely. Like a broken one. | 0:28:33 | 0:28:35 | |
Day three and the scaffold's coming down. | 0:28:35 | 0:28:37 | |
-At 11.35am. -It's got to be some sort of record, this, hasn't it? | 0:28:37 | 0:28:40 | |
-Scaffold going down. -Day three and the scaffolding's coming down. | 0:28:40 | 0:28:43 | |
-Is that a record? -Is that some sort of record, day three, | 0:28:43 | 0:28:45 | |
-the scaffolding coming down? -You're brilliant. He's brilliant. See that? | 0:28:45 | 0:28:48 | |
Did you know that's a record? 11.35. | 0:28:48 | 0:28:50 | |
I think we've got round to the start again. | 0:28:50 | 0:28:52 | |
I think it was you and me at the start. | 0:28:52 | 0:28:54 | |
These heroes are working so hard because they know | 0:28:58 | 0:29:02 | |
there's a family in need. | 0:29:02 | 0:29:04 | |
Over the last 18 months, Vic's taken on the role of a full-time carer, | 0:29:05 | 0:29:09 | |
not only for the kids, but also for Amanda. | 0:29:09 | 0:29:13 | |
All of that whilst working full-time as a builder. | 0:29:13 | 0:29:16 | |
I mean, to be fair, the big change in terms of your role... | 0:29:18 | 0:29:21 | |
Yeah, like, when the accident did happen, you know, | 0:29:21 | 0:29:24 | |
I could cook and I could use a dishwasher | 0:29:24 | 0:29:26 | |
and the washing machine. | 0:29:26 | 0:29:28 | |
So it didn't come quite as bad as what it could possibly have been. | 0:29:28 | 0:29:30 | |
We've got through it, muddled through it. | 0:29:30 | 0:29:32 | |
The kids have had to fend for themselves a bit more, | 0:29:32 | 0:29:34 | |
-I would think. -It is a big change, though, mate. | 0:29:34 | 0:29:36 | |
Oh, it is a big change, yeah. | 0:29:36 | 0:29:37 | |
But I never thought I was going to run away from it. | 0:29:37 | 0:29:40 | |
Just take each day as it comes. | 0:29:40 | 0:29:42 | |
On that basis, then, we've been thinking about | 0:29:42 | 0:29:44 | |
doing this build for Mandy. | 0:29:44 | 0:29:46 | |
-Yeah. -It seems to me that it's not necessarily just for Mandy. | 0:29:46 | 0:29:49 | |
Well, no, because if Mandy can get back to doing what she wants to be, | 0:29:49 | 0:29:52 | |
which is a mum, it takes the pressure off of everybody. | 0:29:52 | 0:29:55 | |
It will give us all a bit of our life back, hopefully. | 0:29:55 | 0:29:58 | |
Take the pressure off you a bit? | 0:29:58 | 0:29:59 | |
Yeah, definitely 100% take the pressure off me. | 0:29:59 | 0:30:01 | |
Yeah, 100%. | 0:30:01 | 0:30:03 | |
You work in the building trade. I do. | 0:30:03 | 0:30:05 | |
Obviously, plainly, no matter how hard you tried, | 0:30:05 | 0:30:08 | |
-you would not have been able to have got this done. -No. | 0:30:08 | 0:30:10 | |
So what do you make of all these people, | 0:30:10 | 0:30:13 | |
up to 100 people a day, to come and make this happen? | 0:30:13 | 0:30:16 | |
Yeah, obviously, very grateful. | 0:30:16 | 0:30:17 | |
It's amazing what they've done and to come there for nothing as well. | 0:30:17 | 0:30:21 | |
-And they don't know you. -And they don't know me, no. | 0:30:21 | 0:30:24 | |
That's absolutely amazing. It's amazing. | 0:30:24 | 0:30:26 | |
It puts your faith back in humanity a little bit, doesn't it? | 0:30:26 | 0:30:29 | |
Yep, it certainly does. | 0:30:29 | 0:30:32 | |
What made you give up your time to come and do this for nothing? | 0:30:32 | 0:30:36 | |
You've got to pass it forward where you can. | 0:30:36 | 0:30:38 | |
If no-one gave anything, life would be horrible. | 0:30:38 | 0:30:42 | |
All that pink stuff going on the walls | 0:30:42 | 0:30:44 | |
means we've broken another record. | 0:30:44 | 0:30:47 | |
I don't want to tempt fate, but this is the last bit | 0:30:48 | 0:30:50 | |
of plastering they've got. | 0:30:50 | 0:30:52 | |
It's the quickest we've ever plastered a house ever | 0:30:54 | 0:30:57 | |
in the history of! | 0:30:57 | 0:30:59 | |
And the floor fairies are in, which means with four days to go, | 0:30:59 | 0:31:03 | |
we're in a really good place. | 0:31:03 | 0:31:05 | |
Quite interesting, this is day six of the build, | 0:31:14 | 0:31:17 | |
because we always talk about it in numbers, but in the real world | 0:31:17 | 0:31:20 | |
it's a Sunday and it's just as busy as any other day of the week. | 0:31:20 | 0:31:24 | |
It doesn't actually ease up at all. | 0:31:24 | 0:31:26 | |
-What's your name? -Paul. -Paul. | 0:31:32 | 0:31:33 | |
What have you come along for, Paul? | 0:31:33 | 0:31:35 | |
I have come because my son's school is at the bottom of the hill | 0:31:35 | 0:31:38 | |
in Bury where that awful accident happened, | 0:31:38 | 0:31:41 | |
so we heard about it and I thought I'd come along | 0:31:41 | 0:31:43 | |
-and give you guys some ice cream. -Nicks' Licks. | 0:31:43 | 0:31:46 | |
-No, I'm Nick. -I know you're Nick! | 0:31:46 | 0:31:48 | |
-Are you Nick? -You're Nicks' Licks today. | 0:31:48 | 0:31:49 | |
-That's very lovely. Thank you. Are you Nick? -I'm Paul. | 0:31:49 | 0:31:52 | |
-So who's Nick? -You're Nick. -Oh, is this specifically for me? | 0:31:52 | 0:31:55 | |
-I thought you were actually... -Just for you. | 0:31:55 | 0:31:57 | |
Oh, mate! That's fantastic. | 0:31:57 | 0:31:58 | |
I'm slow off the mark, I know, | 0:31:58 | 0:32:00 | |
but you'd have brain freeze too if you're eating, | 0:32:00 | 0:32:02 | |
if you were eating ice cream at eight in the morning. | 0:32:02 | 0:32:04 | |
What's your one? | 0:32:04 | 0:32:07 | |
-Is that one all right? -That's nice, that one. | 0:32:11 | 0:32:13 | |
Oh, that Nick... Paul, makes a lovely ice cream. | 0:32:13 | 0:32:16 | |
Hugs all around. | 0:32:16 | 0:32:17 | |
If you had to describe that, how was it? | 0:32:19 | 0:32:22 | |
It's like a cross between the biggest hug | 0:32:22 | 0:32:24 | |
I've ever had off my smallest sausage dog | 0:32:24 | 0:32:27 | |
and waking up next to my wife. | 0:32:27 | 0:32:29 | |
We may look like we're just standing around having a laugh | 0:32:32 | 0:32:34 | |
but we're making progress. | 0:32:34 | 0:32:36 | |
The lift shaft is finished ready for the lift to arrive tomorrow. | 0:32:36 | 0:32:40 | |
God, I hope it fits because it's quite complicated! | 0:32:40 | 0:32:44 | |
Paint's going on the walls and we have the happiest decorator | 0:32:44 | 0:32:47 | |
-in the world. -Oh, absolutely, mate. | 0:32:47 | 0:32:50 | |
Always happy when I'm painting. | 0:32:50 | 0:32:52 | |
-Happy, happy, happy! -See what I mean? | 0:32:52 | 0:32:55 | |
It's not just whites in this house. | 0:32:55 | 0:32:57 | |
The kids' loft rooms are getting a spruce-up. | 0:32:57 | 0:33:00 | |
Meanwhile, on the first floor, it's a different story. | 0:33:00 | 0:33:02 | |
Different story, see what I did there?! | 0:33:02 | 0:33:04 | |
First floor... Right. | 0:33:04 | 0:33:06 | |
This obviously you can't work out whether it's for a boy or a girl | 0:33:08 | 0:33:10 | |
-because you've got blue walls and pink floors. -That's it. | 0:33:10 | 0:33:13 | |
This is the master bed. This is for Vic and Amanda | 0:33:13 | 0:33:15 | |
but isn't it a gorgeous colour? Really deep, relaxing. | 0:33:15 | 0:33:17 | |
It'll look gorgeous in the evening. Really pleased with the colour. | 0:33:17 | 0:33:20 | |
-No. -You don't like this colour? | 0:33:20 | 0:33:22 | |
Oh, you're not going to like what's going on in here, then. | 0:33:22 | 0:33:24 | |
-This isn't feeling good. -Is it going to be bright in here as well? | 0:33:24 | 0:33:27 | |
I'm not going to win this one, am I? | 0:33:27 | 0:33:30 | |
Sophie's brought Megan and Amelia to see local artist Sarah, | 0:33:30 | 0:33:33 | |
who's been making something a bit colourful for Amanda. | 0:33:33 | 0:33:37 | |
Well, I think this is a sort of integral part of my design, | 0:33:37 | 0:33:40 | |
something, you know, handmade | 0:33:40 | 0:33:42 | |
and Sarah's been working so hard on this, | 0:33:42 | 0:33:44 | |
because this is a big piece of crochet, isn't it? | 0:33:44 | 0:33:46 | |
-I mean, it is your speciality. -Yeah, it's a big project. | 0:33:46 | 0:33:48 | |
So what can we do for beginners, cos I'm not that good at it, either. | 0:33:48 | 0:33:51 | |
We thought we'd make some pom-poms. | 0:33:51 | 0:33:53 | |
So your mum, with this incredible positive mental attitude, | 0:33:53 | 0:33:57 | |
I'm guessing a lot of people who meet her probably actually | 0:33:57 | 0:34:00 | |
can't fully appreciate what it's like for her. | 0:34:00 | 0:34:02 | |
If you met her, you would never know the things | 0:34:02 | 0:34:04 | |
she has to struggle with at home. | 0:34:04 | 0:34:06 | |
She hardly ever moans about how much pain she's in and she's in a | 0:34:06 | 0:34:09 | |
-lot of pain a lot of the time. -A lot of the time. | 0:34:09 | 0:34:11 | |
But you just never know. | 0:34:11 | 0:34:13 | |
So do you worry about her for things like that? | 0:34:13 | 0:34:15 | |
-All the time. -Yeah. -Because she has good days and bad days, | 0:34:15 | 0:34:17 | |
where her legs spasm a lot or they don't spasm as much | 0:34:17 | 0:34:20 | |
or her back hurts, or it doesn't, | 0:34:20 | 0:34:22 | |
and with the stairlift and stuff, if something happens, | 0:34:22 | 0:34:24 | |
no-one's there to help her. | 0:34:24 | 0:34:25 | |
So you're worried that she's on her own in the house, | 0:34:25 | 0:34:28 | |
-knowing... -That something could happen and no-one's there for her. | 0:34:28 | 0:34:31 | |
-That stairlift was a bit dodgy though, wasn't it? -So dodgy. | 0:34:31 | 0:34:34 | |
So the house being redesigned, what's that going to give you, then? | 0:34:34 | 0:34:39 | |
I suppose peace of mind. | 0:34:39 | 0:34:40 | |
-It's going to give us our childhood back. -Oh! | 0:34:40 | 0:34:44 | |
Can't answer better than that. | 0:34:44 | 0:34:46 | |
-Wow, they're huge. -Oh, wow, they're big! | 0:34:48 | 0:34:51 | |
They'd make super earrings. | 0:34:51 | 0:34:52 | |
-Oh, my goodness! -Perfect. | 0:34:52 | 0:34:55 | |
She literally couldn't help herself, could she? | 0:34:55 | 0:34:58 | |
Back at the house, I'm about to stop Sophie's multicolour madness | 0:35:00 | 0:35:04 | |
in its tracks. | 0:35:04 | 0:35:06 | |
Look at that. That's our friends coming back with the pinafore. | 0:35:08 | 0:35:10 | |
So I reckon they've done it in brown leather like I asked them to. | 0:35:10 | 0:35:13 | |
Oh, yeah, brown leather with a lion roaring. | 0:35:13 | 0:35:16 | |
With a lion roaring on it, that's what I wanted, yeah. | 0:35:16 | 0:35:19 | |
Now, look, it's Jules's toilet paper blue, actually. | 0:35:19 | 0:35:21 | |
Good choice, Jules. That's great. | 0:35:21 | 0:35:24 | |
And then there's the thin leather in the middle, | 0:35:24 | 0:35:26 | |
-so when you sit down, it folds. -Yeah. | 0:35:26 | 0:35:28 | |
And the embroidery detail and then this is when you've got | 0:35:28 | 0:35:30 | |
-your hot pans on your lap. -Yeah. That's very elegant, actually. | 0:35:30 | 0:35:33 | |
You managed to combine the elegance I wanted | 0:35:33 | 0:35:37 | |
with the ridiculousness that she wanted. | 0:35:37 | 0:35:40 | |
I think Jules won that one. | 0:35:41 | 0:35:43 | |
-That's very nice. Well done, everybody. -Yeah, it is. | 0:35:43 | 0:35:45 | |
That's genius. Thank you. | 0:35:45 | 0:35:47 | |
From things that perfectly fit to something that apparently doesn't. | 0:35:47 | 0:35:52 | |
With the lift due to arrive in less than 24 hours, | 0:35:52 | 0:35:54 | |
Mark has discovered a huge new problem. | 0:35:54 | 0:35:57 | |
I went into the lift job and I don't think there's enough clearance | 0:35:58 | 0:36:02 | |
to get the lift up through the first floor. | 0:36:02 | 0:36:05 | |
This wall between the toilet and the lift shaft is five centimetres | 0:36:05 | 0:36:08 | |
too wide for the lift to fit in. | 0:36:08 | 0:36:10 | |
But moving it will mean taking down tiles, moving pipes, wiring, etc. | 0:36:10 | 0:36:13 | |
It's a nightmare. | 0:36:13 | 0:36:16 | |
-You still need 50 mil, though, don't you? -Yes. | 0:36:16 | 0:36:18 | |
But James, who's been with us since day one, might have a plan. | 0:36:18 | 0:36:22 | |
Basically, we're just going to take that wall, | 0:36:22 | 0:36:26 | |
make it 50 mil smaller and put it back together. | 0:36:26 | 0:36:31 | |
Hopefully we'll get away with it. | 0:36:31 | 0:36:33 | |
-Fingers crossed. -All right. | 0:36:34 | 0:36:37 | |
Making the wall narrower is going to be really difficult to do without | 0:36:37 | 0:36:40 | |
damaging the tiles on the other side. | 0:36:40 | 0:36:43 | |
Just a case of being careful, | 0:36:43 | 0:36:45 | |
-taking our time, get it out... -Yeah. -..put back. | 0:36:45 | 0:36:49 | |
This level of care being shown by our trades | 0:36:49 | 0:36:52 | |
is all about getting a mum back in the saddle, | 0:36:52 | 0:36:55 | |
which may seem a strange or inappropriate use of words | 0:36:55 | 0:36:59 | |
but in this case, it's actually very appropriate, as you're about to see. | 0:36:59 | 0:37:03 | |
Before my accident, I was quite frightened of riding | 0:37:03 | 0:37:05 | |
and then a friend said to me that riding | 0:37:05 | 0:37:07 | |
would be a really good experience, having had an accident, | 0:37:07 | 0:37:10 | |
because you gain four muscular legs, | 0:37:10 | 0:37:12 | |
where you've lost the use of your two legs that no longer work. | 0:37:12 | 0:37:16 | |
One, two, three. | 0:37:16 | 0:37:18 | |
On you go. Lovely. | 0:37:18 | 0:37:21 | |
I'm genuinely gobsmacked at Amanda | 0:37:21 | 0:37:24 | |
and the fact that she doesn't have... | 0:37:24 | 0:37:26 | |
I thought she'd be strapped into the saddle. | 0:37:26 | 0:37:29 | |
That's entirely her own core strength | 0:37:29 | 0:37:31 | |
that's holding her in position. | 0:37:31 | 0:37:32 | |
If you'd have seen her six months ago, | 0:37:32 | 0:37:35 | |
you know, you wouldn't think she would be doing this. | 0:37:35 | 0:37:38 | |
-Are you not at all scared? -No. No! | 0:37:38 | 0:37:41 | |
How determined is she by comparison to other people? | 0:37:43 | 0:37:45 | |
Oh, totally. | 0:37:45 | 0:37:47 | |
Like no-one else I've ever met, really. | 0:37:47 | 0:37:49 | |
She's the most positive thinking, | 0:37:49 | 0:37:51 | |
determined person that I've probably come across. | 0:37:51 | 0:37:54 | |
And that's why she's doing so well. | 0:37:56 | 0:37:58 | |
Good girl. | 0:38:00 | 0:38:01 | |
How is that possible? It's amazing, isn't it? | 0:38:03 | 0:38:06 | |
That grit and resilience has been enormously challenged | 0:38:06 | 0:38:09 | |
since the accident 18 months ago. | 0:38:09 | 0:38:13 | |
It's such a huge thing, isn't it? | 0:38:13 | 0:38:14 | |
I mean, with all the challenges that you've faced, | 0:38:14 | 0:38:18 | |
isn't it extraordinary that you can actually deal with | 0:38:18 | 0:38:21 | |
the loss of the use of your legs, | 0:38:21 | 0:38:22 | |
but you couldn't deal with, not being able to do the things | 0:38:22 | 0:38:25 | |
-that you wanted to do as a mum? -My whole life was for my children. | 0:38:25 | 0:38:29 | |
But I'd lost my role of being a mum and that really hit hard the most. | 0:38:29 | 0:38:32 | |
My disability isn't because I don't have my legs, | 0:38:33 | 0:38:36 | |
it's because of my house and that was the frustrating thing. | 0:38:36 | 0:38:40 | |
I can have a real, you know, emotional days | 0:38:40 | 0:38:42 | |
where I do get ever so upset and I will sob and sob and sob. | 0:38:42 | 0:38:46 | |
I remember trying to get flour out of the cupboard just to make | 0:38:46 | 0:38:49 | |
something and it was silly, I just couldn't reach it. | 0:38:49 | 0:38:52 | |
I just had a real meltdown. | 0:38:52 | 0:38:54 | |
You can't, as you say, always be on a high. | 0:38:54 | 0:38:56 | |
-Of course. -You do have to have days. | 0:38:56 | 0:38:58 | |
I guess I used to worry that if I started crying, | 0:38:58 | 0:39:00 | |
I might not stop again. | 0:39:00 | 0:39:02 | |
It's good to be open but I don't like to upset the children too much. | 0:39:02 | 0:39:05 | |
Obviously if I cry and get really angry and upset, | 0:39:05 | 0:39:07 | |
it then upsets them. | 0:39:07 | 0:39:08 | |
-It makes them feel guilty. -Yeah, but by the same token, | 0:39:08 | 0:39:10 | |
kids have to grow up with a sense that it's OK to be... | 0:39:10 | 0:39:13 | |
-Yes. -..to be human... -Be human. -..not superhuman. -Yeah. | 0:39:13 | 0:39:17 | |
Because they are... I've never met children more proud of their mum. | 0:39:17 | 0:39:20 | |
-Really? -Yeah, yeah. -Because they... | 0:39:20 | 0:39:22 | |
They're teenagers, so it's not cool to tell their mum | 0:39:22 | 0:39:25 | |
that they're proud. | 0:39:25 | 0:39:26 | |
-Yeah. -I had a lot to live for, didn't I? | 0:39:26 | 0:39:28 | |
I had so much to live for that day. | 0:39:28 | 0:39:31 | |
There's anything up to 100 people a day crawling all over your house, | 0:39:31 | 0:39:35 | |
doing six months' of work in nine days. | 0:39:35 | 0:39:37 | |
They're the ones who've really given me | 0:39:37 | 0:39:40 | |
my role back and they're the ones, I guess, at the end of the day | 0:39:40 | 0:39:42 | |
that I'll be so thankful for for the rest of my life | 0:39:42 | 0:39:45 | |
for giving me... Every time I'm doing something for the children, | 0:39:45 | 0:39:47 | |
I'll have a big smile on my face thinking, "Gosh, you know, | 0:39:47 | 0:39:50 | |
"all those people who came to the house and they've done this for me." | 0:39:50 | 0:39:53 | |
It's just going to be beautiful | 0:39:53 | 0:39:54 | |
because it's a house built with love. | 0:39:54 | 0:39:57 | |
And she's not wrong. | 0:39:57 | 0:39:59 | |
The build's motoring along... | 0:39:59 | 0:40:01 | |
except in the troublesome lift shaft. | 0:40:01 | 0:40:03 | |
James has less than 12 hours to get this wall narrowed | 0:40:03 | 0:40:07 | |
before the lift arrives. | 0:40:07 | 0:40:09 | |
-Morning! -Morning. | 0:40:12 | 0:40:14 | |
-Morning. -Just a day to go, so I've got here early. | 0:40:14 | 0:40:18 | |
It's 8.30 and, you know, our mate doesn't normally see 8.30, do you? | 0:40:18 | 0:40:23 | |
Well, look how bright it is. | 0:40:23 | 0:40:25 | |
Who wants to get up and, like, squint | 0:40:25 | 0:40:26 | |
for the first couple of hours of the day? | 0:40:26 | 0:40:28 | |
Have you had that earwax problem sorted out? | 0:40:28 | 0:40:30 | |
Did it stop sticking your head to the pillow? | 0:40:30 | 0:40:32 | |
It's sorted out now, is it? | 0:40:32 | 0:40:33 | |
See, that's not necessary, is it? | 0:40:33 | 0:40:36 | |
What is necessary is getting this garden finished. | 0:40:36 | 0:40:39 | |
-Plants are here by nine. -Got topsoil? -Topsoil's here. | 0:40:39 | 0:40:41 | |
-Six tonnes of it. -Sounds like you've got it all under control. | 0:40:41 | 0:40:44 | |
-Oh, yes. -With a day to go. -Don't jinx it! | 0:40:44 | 0:40:47 | |
We're in the final push now. | 0:40:49 | 0:40:50 | |
The all-important lift is due to arrive any minute | 0:40:50 | 0:40:52 | |
and upstairs, James has worked magic. | 0:40:52 | 0:40:55 | |
So you're the man who's managed to unskin a wall from behind | 0:40:58 | 0:41:01 | |
the plasterboard, which has been tiled | 0:41:01 | 0:41:03 | |
-without damaging a single tile and put a whole new wall on? -Yeah. | 0:41:03 | 0:41:07 | |
That's... That is, isn't it? That is... | 0:41:07 | 0:41:10 | |
-Remarkable. -..pretty amazing. -It's been good. | 0:41:10 | 0:41:13 | |
It's been emotional, I tell you. | 0:41:13 | 0:41:15 | |
You know, at the very start you said it would be emotional | 0:41:15 | 0:41:18 | |
and I think, yeah, it definitely has been. | 0:41:18 | 0:41:20 | |
It has been emotional for us, too, | 0:41:20 | 0:41:22 | |
especially because the arriving lift is very special to this DIY family. | 0:41:22 | 0:41:27 | |
Six years ago, we helped an amazing man, Eric Rivers, | 0:41:27 | 0:41:30 | |
who suffered with motor neurone disease. | 0:41:30 | 0:41:32 | |
This time that we've got from here on in | 0:41:35 | 0:41:37 | |
is the most precious time we've got as a family. | 0:41:37 | 0:41:42 | |
This lift meant the family could be together. | 0:41:42 | 0:41:45 | |
Thank you so much. It's beautiful! | 0:41:47 | 0:41:51 | |
You've changed five lives. | 0:41:51 | 0:41:55 | |
I was falling. | 0:41:55 | 0:41:58 | |
You guys have joined hands and caught me. | 0:41:58 | 0:42:02 | |
Thank you. Thank you. | 0:42:05 | 0:42:07 | |
Sadly, Eric passed away over a year ago | 0:42:08 | 0:42:11 | |
but his wife Davina has decided to make an incredible gift | 0:42:11 | 0:42:15 | |
to Amanda's family. | 0:42:15 | 0:42:18 | |
Davina. It is Davina. | 0:42:18 | 0:42:19 | |
-Hello, hello. -Hi, sweetheart. | 0:42:20 | 0:42:22 | |
-How are you? -Hello! | 0:42:22 | 0:42:24 | |
We've got a present for you. Hello, hello. | 0:42:24 | 0:42:28 | |
How are you doing? It's lovely to see you all again. | 0:42:28 | 0:42:31 | |
-Hello. -Hi! How are you doing? -Very well. | 0:42:31 | 0:42:34 | |
You've brought us a present. | 0:42:34 | 0:42:36 | |
We thought you might be able to use Eric's lift | 0:42:36 | 0:42:39 | |
and I know you've got a very special person that needs one. | 0:42:39 | 0:42:43 | |
-Yeah. -And we were very keen that somebody could use it | 0:42:43 | 0:42:47 | |
again after Eric passed away because it made such a difference | 0:42:47 | 0:42:51 | |
to our lives and we'd love it to make the same difference | 0:42:51 | 0:42:53 | |
to someone else. And I just know he would be delighted | 0:42:53 | 0:42:57 | |
that this is going to be used for somebody | 0:42:57 | 0:43:00 | |
-that's really in need of help. -I don't doubt that at all. | 0:43:00 | 0:43:02 | |
A helping hand, you know? | 0:43:02 | 0:43:04 | |
He'd have been the first person to offer help | 0:43:04 | 0:43:06 | |
-if he'd had the opportunity. -100%. -This is amazing... | 0:43:06 | 0:43:09 | |
-Yeah. -..recycling all this. | 0:43:09 | 0:43:11 | |
Now the lift's here, it's just the finishing touches. | 0:43:12 | 0:43:16 | |
What the flaming flamingo is going on in here? | 0:43:16 | 0:43:18 | |
Oh, it's gorgeous, isn't it? Isn't it amazing? | 0:43:18 | 0:43:20 | |
If you say so, Sophie. | 0:43:20 | 0:43:22 | |
We've also got an amazing mechanical bed for Amanda. | 0:43:22 | 0:43:25 | |
These gentlemen last did a bed for us | 0:43:25 | 0:43:27 | |
when we did Eric Rivers's house. | 0:43:27 | 0:43:30 | |
-Excellent. -So how amazing is that? | 0:43:30 | 0:43:32 | |
How coincidental is that that you've come to help out? | 0:43:32 | 0:43:34 | |
Look at the colours as well. | 0:43:34 | 0:43:36 | |
You've done the colours we wanted. | 0:43:36 | 0:43:37 | |
And talking of the lift, it's now fitted and working perfectly. | 0:43:37 | 0:43:41 | |
This is cool. | 0:43:41 | 0:43:43 | |
This is very, very cool. | 0:43:43 | 0:43:45 | |
My sofa's arrived! That is even cooler. | 0:43:45 | 0:43:48 | |
I'll tell you what is cool, | 0:43:48 | 0:43:49 | |
we've got a rise and fall worktop for Billy to live under. | 0:43:49 | 0:43:53 | |
-It is high, yeah? -It's good, isn't it? | 0:43:53 | 0:43:55 | |
With just hours left there's a final problem... | 0:43:57 | 0:44:00 | |
..the washing machine won't fit under the counter, | 0:44:02 | 0:44:04 | |
so the plumbers are staying late to make sure it's sorted. | 0:44:04 | 0:44:09 | |
Were you going to do anything tonight? | 0:44:09 | 0:44:12 | |
I was going to try to put my little boy to bed, | 0:44:12 | 0:44:14 | |
but I haven't done since Tuesday. | 0:44:14 | 0:44:16 | |
Never mind, it's all for the right reasons. | 0:44:16 | 0:44:18 | |
These trades are brilliant. | 0:44:20 | 0:44:22 | |
Nine days ago, Amanda was trapped in a house that stole her role as mum. | 0:44:30 | 0:44:35 | |
So our house of horror, as I like to call my house, | 0:44:35 | 0:44:38 | |
because everything in it is just not designed | 0:44:38 | 0:44:41 | |
for someone in a wheelchair. | 0:44:41 | 0:44:43 | |
She was struggling to hold on to her dignity | 0:44:43 | 0:44:44 | |
and her children had become carers. | 0:44:44 | 0:44:47 | |
It's like you can't really be a kid any more. | 0:44:47 | 0:44:49 | |
You have to really step up and, like, grow up and just take it. | 0:44:49 | 0:44:53 | |
It's taken an epic effort... | 0:44:55 | 0:44:58 | |
-It doesn't actually ease up at all. -It's been good. | 0:44:58 | 0:45:01 | |
It's been emotional, I tell you. | 0:45:01 | 0:45:04 | |
..from a whole community of trades... | 0:45:04 | 0:45:07 | |
I don't know how much money I'm going to have at any one time, | 0:45:07 | 0:45:09 | |
but I know I've got a limited amount of time, | 0:45:09 | 0:45:12 | |
so the most precious thing I can give you is time. | 0:45:12 | 0:45:15 | |
..to make a family complete again. | 0:45:15 | 0:45:18 | |
We've given them a spacious and colourful living area | 0:45:21 | 0:45:23 | |
with wheelchair access throughout. | 0:45:23 | 0:45:26 | |
There's a new dining table where the family can put the world to rights. | 0:45:29 | 0:45:33 | |
We've packed it with automated controls | 0:45:34 | 0:45:36 | |
so Amanda can be independent. | 0:45:36 | 0:45:38 | |
And we've made the garden completely level. | 0:45:40 | 0:45:43 | |
It's now an oasis of peace, with raised planters | 0:45:43 | 0:45:46 | |
and even space for Amanda's hand bike. | 0:45:46 | 0:45:49 | |
Travel through the generous entrance hall and you find yourself in the kitchen, | 0:45:52 | 0:45:56 | |
which has rise-and-fall worktops | 0:45:56 | 0:45:58 | |
so Amanda can get back to the cooking she loves - | 0:45:58 | 0:46:02 | |
and to be the mum she used to be. | 0:46:02 | 0:46:04 | |
There's low-level storage and all mod cons, | 0:46:04 | 0:46:06 | |
to make life that little bit easier. | 0:46:06 | 0:46:09 | |
The lift, so generously donated, will transform another life, | 0:46:14 | 0:46:18 | |
finally giving Amanda the freedom to get around the house safely. | 0:46:18 | 0:46:21 | |
Upstairs, the wide landing has a huge turning circle, | 0:46:23 | 0:46:27 | |
and leads to the new wet room, | 0:46:27 | 0:46:30 | |
giving Amanda back independence and some dignity. | 0:46:30 | 0:46:34 | |
With a bit of luxury thrown in, too. | 0:46:34 | 0:46:36 | |
The new master bedroom gives Amanda and Vic | 0:46:38 | 0:46:40 | |
a sanctuary to be a couple again - | 0:46:40 | 0:46:43 | |
and yes, the colours are vibrant and fantastic. | 0:46:43 | 0:46:46 | |
There's a state-of-the-art mechanical bed, | 0:46:46 | 0:46:48 | |
and Amanda can open the curtains | 0:46:48 | 0:46:50 | |
with a touch of a button. | 0:46:50 | 0:46:52 | |
All within easy reach of Amelia and Joe's rooms - | 0:46:54 | 0:46:57 | |
so a mum can finally kiss her children good night. | 0:46:57 | 0:47:00 | |
Sophie's design reflects their personalities, | 0:47:03 | 0:47:06 | |
and upstairs is now a riot of colour. | 0:47:06 | 0:47:09 | |
Up in the loft, we've given Jacob and Megan | 0:47:12 | 0:47:14 | |
cool and sophisticated rooms, | 0:47:14 | 0:47:16 | |
which reflect the young adults they're becoming. | 0:47:16 | 0:47:19 | |
This house is finally a place Amanda can call home. | 0:47:19 | 0:47:23 | |
We wanted to give you a space that you could operate in | 0:47:25 | 0:47:27 | |
where you could be a family again, | 0:47:27 | 0:47:29 | |
where you're able basically to be...a mum again. | 0:47:29 | 0:47:31 | |
So... | 0:47:31 | 0:47:33 | |
we hope this is it. | 0:47:33 | 0:47:34 | |
Three, two, one. Open your eyes. | 0:47:34 | 0:47:37 | |
SHE GASPS | 0:47:37 | 0:47:39 | |
Ooh, wow. | 0:47:40 | 0:47:41 | |
Oh, my God... | 0:47:41 | 0:47:43 | |
Look at that, Mandy. | 0:47:43 | 0:47:44 | |
-My rocking chair! -Your rocking chair. | 0:47:46 | 0:47:48 | |
A pink rocking chair! | 0:47:48 | 0:47:49 | |
It's just too much to take in. It's just amazing. | 0:47:49 | 0:47:53 | |
It's just... | 0:47:53 | 0:47:54 | |
-Thank you so much! -Lovely. | 0:48:00 | 0:48:02 | |
It's beyond words, | 0:48:05 | 0:48:06 | |
it's beyond anything I could have imagined. | 0:48:06 | 0:48:08 | |
We've got some pretty important things here, this is your central heating unit - | 0:48:08 | 0:48:12 | |
now, you can take that with you wherever you are in the house, | 0:48:12 | 0:48:14 | |
and it will make sure that whatever room you're in, | 0:48:14 | 0:48:16 | |
it's the temperature you want to be. | 0:48:16 | 0:48:18 | |
So... Do you want a moment? | 0:48:18 | 0:48:21 | |
Just take a moment out for a little hug, shall we? | 0:48:21 | 0:48:23 | |
You didn't think I'd cry! | 0:48:23 | 0:48:24 | |
NICK LAUGHS No! I didn't. | 0:48:24 | 0:48:27 | |
Sorry... | 0:48:29 | 0:48:30 | |
I've got central heating | 0:48:30 | 0:48:32 | |
and I can control it myself! | 0:48:32 | 0:48:34 | |
That sounds really silly, but just to have control is so important. | 0:48:35 | 0:48:39 | |
It really is. | 0:48:39 | 0:48:42 | |
Thank you so much. | 0:48:42 | 0:48:43 | |
Oh, my God! The kids will just absolutely... Look at the... | 0:48:44 | 0:48:48 | |
Wow. It's amazing. | 0:48:48 | 0:48:49 | |
There's a couple of things that are worth mentioning - | 0:48:52 | 0:48:55 | |
so if you want to watch TV during the day, | 0:48:55 | 0:48:58 | |
or you want a movie you can close the curtains, | 0:48:58 | 0:49:00 | |
-but you can control the blind from here. -Can do it from there as well. -Yeah. | 0:49:00 | 0:49:03 | |
The idea is basically that you're in control of all of these things. | 0:49:03 | 0:49:06 | |
-I am. -Yeah? -I'm in control of everything. | 0:49:06 | 0:49:09 | |
You are in control of everything. | 0:49:09 | 0:49:11 | |
Also, you'll find that the house is flat from here | 0:49:11 | 0:49:13 | |
-all the way to the back of the garden. -The garden looks massive! | 0:49:13 | 0:49:17 | |
Now it's all easy for me to get to and everything. | 0:49:17 | 0:49:19 | |
-It's a great family space, don't you think? -It's phenomenal. | 0:49:19 | 0:49:22 | |
We would never, ever have been able to do this, would we? | 0:49:22 | 0:49:24 | |
No. Never, never, never, never, never. | 0:49:24 | 0:49:26 | |
-I've got more things to show you. Want to come through? -More?! Gosh. | 0:49:26 | 0:49:29 | |
I've only just recovered from THIS amount. | 0:49:29 | 0:49:31 | |
So this is your new hallway. | 0:49:33 | 0:49:34 | |
We asked all of your kids to write down what... | 0:49:37 | 0:49:39 | |
-No, they didn't say these things... -So these are their words. | 0:49:39 | 0:49:42 | |
They're the reason why I got through all of this. | 0:49:48 | 0:49:51 | |
VOICEOVER: And the next room | 0:49:51 | 0:49:52 | |
is going to give her back what she wants most of all. | 0:49:52 | 0:49:56 | |
Wow, look at the kitchen. | 0:49:56 | 0:49:59 | |
Wow! | 0:50:00 | 0:50:01 | |
-Oh, my goodness. -You can get underneath. | 0:50:01 | 0:50:03 | |
But look at all the stuff as well, and the cooker! | 0:50:03 | 0:50:07 | |
Yeah. The trouble is, it's too high, isn't it? | 0:50:07 | 0:50:09 | |
A little bit, yeah, maybe. | 0:50:09 | 0:50:11 | |
But it goes up and down?! | 0:50:11 | 0:50:13 | |
Oh, wow! | 0:50:13 | 0:50:15 | |
How's that for a sitting point? | 0:50:15 | 0:50:17 | |
SHE SNIFFS | 0:50:23 | 0:50:24 | |
-It's my little heaven, isn't it? -It is. Yeah. -My little paradise. | 0:50:24 | 0:50:28 | |
With cooking, if you were to spill anything hot on your legs, | 0:50:30 | 0:50:34 | |
you wouldn't necessarily know about it, would you? | 0:50:34 | 0:50:36 | |
No, I find at the end of the evening when I go to bed, | 0:50:36 | 0:50:38 | |
-take my trousers off and I've got blisters everywhere. -Yeah. -So that's a bit too late, then. | 0:50:38 | 0:50:42 | |
So we had a cast around to see if we could find anybody who works with leather in the area. And... | 0:50:42 | 0:50:46 | |
-Oh, my gosh! -..they've made you... -Look at this. | 0:50:46 | 0:50:49 | |
If you put this on your lap, this is a really, | 0:50:49 | 0:50:52 | |
really clever heat resistant pad. | 0:50:52 | 0:50:54 | |
Can I actually put things on there? | 0:50:54 | 0:50:55 | |
-Yes. -Serious? -You can put hot things on there and it won't do any damage. | 0:50:55 | 0:50:58 | |
That's amazing! | 0:50:58 | 0:50:59 | |
So does this mean with the adjustments that we've made here... | 0:50:59 | 0:51:02 | |
I won't be leaving the place, I'll be cooking in here all day long. | 0:51:02 | 0:51:05 | |
It's just given me everything back again, | 0:51:05 | 0:51:07 | |
all the cupboards I can reach... | 0:51:07 | 0:51:08 | |
Whilst we're here - just reach up to that cupboard... | 0:51:08 | 0:51:11 | |
Can you reach it? | 0:51:11 | 0:51:12 | |
-Oh, look! -Reach the handle... -You can pull them out! | 0:51:12 | 0:51:15 | |
Do you know, I've lost my wheelchair - this house takes my wheelchair away from me. | 0:51:15 | 0:51:19 | |
-It does. -It gives my normality again... | 0:51:19 | 0:51:21 | |
I'm actually Mum. | 0:51:21 | 0:51:23 | |
It's just amazing, I'm just so lucky. | 0:51:23 | 0:51:25 | |
So, we've got a kitchen that you can cook in | 0:51:25 | 0:51:28 | |
and you can get access to everything. | 0:51:28 | 0:51:30 | |
What else though? What was the other difficulty that you had? | 0:51:30 | 0:51:33 | |
Gosh, yeah. Toilet...? | 0:51:33 | 0:51:35 | |
VOICEOVER: And to get up there, the gift that will give Amanda freedom. | 0:51:36 | 0:51:39 | |
-Is that what I think it might be? -You know what that is... | 0:51:41 | 0:51:43 | |
-Got a lift! -You've got a lift. | 0:51:43 | 0:51:45 | |
Actually this lift is very, very special to us... | 0:51:45 | 0:51:48 | |
There's a chap called Eric Rivers who suffered with motor neurone disease. | 0:51:51 | 0:51:55 | |
He had this lift for five years, | 0:51:55 | 0:51:57 | |
and, er, | 0:51:57 | 0:51:58 | |
it did amazing things, and it created amazing things in his life. | 0:51:58 | 0:52:02 | |
Being able to spend time with his children... | 0:52:02 | 0:52:05 | |
And he passed away, but his wife Davina then rang us and said | 0:52:05 | 0:52:08 | |
can we give it to somebody who needs it. So... | 0:52:08 | 0:52:10 | |
-Oh, they've given it to us?! -Mm. | 0:52:10 | 0:52:12 | |
That's so kind. | 0:52:12 | 0:52:14 | |
Right. So... | 0:52:14 | 0:52:16 | |
So we've got some more stuff to show you now. | 0:52:17 | 0:52:19 | |
Oh, I'm going! | 0:52:24 | 0:52:26 | |
I'll see you upstairs, bye! | 0:52:26 | 0:52:28 | |
Oh, wow! | 0:52:29 | 0:52:31 | |
Oh, my gosh. | 0:52:31 | 0:52:32 | |
So, a number of doors around you here. | 0:52:34 | 0:52:36 | |
I know, there's so many doors, | 0:52:36 | 0:52:37 | |
and it's like...it's my house but I don't have a clue what's in it. | 0:52:37 | 0:52:40 | |
It's cool, isn't it? It's really funny. The door... | 0:52:40 | 0:52:43 | |
SHE GASPS | 0:52:43 | 0:52:45 | |
Oh, fantastic! | 0:52:48 | 0:52:50 | |
Look at the colours! | 0:52:51 | 0:52:52 | |
I'm going to cry again. | 0:52:54 | 0:52:56 | |
-Independence! -Yeah. | 0:52:57 | 0:52:59 | |
No more relying on Vic. | 0:52:59 | 0:53:01 | |
Right. What haven't we shown you so far...? | 0:53:02 | 0:53:04 | |
You need a bedroom. | 0:53:04 | 0:53:06 | |
-A bedroom would be lovely, wouldn't it? -Yeah? | 0:53:06 | 0:53:08 | |
OK. This one... | 0:53:08 | 0:53:09 | |
Oh...! | 0:53:09 | 0:53:11 | |
-Look at the carpet. Pink carpet. -Pink carpet! | 0:53:11 | 0:53:14 | |
Oh, look at the headboard. | 0:53:14 | 0:53:15 | |
SHE GASPS | 0:53:15 | 0:53:17 | |
It's just a beautiful little room, it's just... It's a Mandy room. | 0:53:17 | 0:53:21 | |
There's little pom-poms! | 0:53:21 | 0:53:23 | |
-Do you know who made the pom-poms? -No, who made the pom-poms? | 0:53:23 | 0:53:26 | |
-The girls. -I love it. | 0:53:26 | 0:53:28 | |
And the girls did these? | 0:53:28 | 0:53:30 | |
-So, have you got everything you need? -More. | 0:53:30 | 0:53:33 | |
-Does it take the pressure off of you? -Absolutely it'll take the pressure off of me. | 0:53:33 | 0:53:36 | |
-In all areas? -In all areas, yeah. | 0:53:36 | 0:53:38 | |
And how does that change YOUR life? | 0:53:38 | 0:53:40 | |
It means I've got my independence back, and my role as mum. | 0:53:40 | 0:53:43 | |
Mummy is what I wanted to be. | 0:53:43 | 0:53:45 | |
And I can be me, we can all be ourselves again. | 0:53:45 | 0:53:47 | |
The children can be children, | 0:53:47 | 0:53:49 | |
Vic can be a husband, | 0:53:49 | 0:53:50 | |
I can be a wife and a mum. | 0:53:50 | 0:53:53 | |
-Listen, we can't get you into the loft... -No. -No. -Obviously. | 0:53:53 | 0:53:55 | |
Can I carry Mandy up there? | 0:53:55 | 0:53:56 | |
-You all right? You're not going to drop me? -I'll try not to. | 0:53:56 | 0:53:59 | |
-Oh, wow... -Mind your head. -Ooh, me head! | 0:53:59 | 0:54:01 | |
SHE GASPS | 0:54:01 | 0:54:02 | |
Wow! | 0:54:02 | 0:54:03 | |
-This is stunning in here. -It is, isn't it? | 0:54:05 | 0:54:07 | |
Absolutely beautiful. | 0:54:07 | 0:54:10 | |
God, look at Jacob's room, it's very grown-up. | 0:54:12 | 0:54:15 | |
-Oh, my God! He's going to LOVE this. -It's lovely, isn't it? | 0:54:15 | 0:54:18 | |
VOICEOVER: Time to show the kids... | 0:54:18 | 0:54:20 | |
Welcome home! | 0:54:20 | 0:54:21 | |
Ready, guys? This is our new... kitchen! | 0:54:28 | 0:54:32 | |
-Oh, my...! -THEY ALL LAUGH EXCITEDLY | 0:54:34 | 0:54:35 | |
-Bye! -Bye. I'm going up... | 0:54:37 | 0:54:40 | |
Really overwhelmed. | 0:54:40 | 0:54:42 | |
Because I can't believe this is our house. | 0:54:42 | 0:54:46 | |
And everything is just all accessible for her. | 0:54:46 | 0:54:49 | |
-SHE SNIFFS AND SOBS -She can be a mum again. | 0:54:49 | 0:54:51 | |
So amazing, and the fact that people have done this for my mum is brilliant. | 0:54:53 | 0:54:57 | |
Here we go... | 0:54:57 | 0:54:58 | |
Look - bed by the window. | 0:54:58 | 0:55:01 | |
It's so nice. | 0:55:01 | 0:55:02 | |
-I like your pillows and stuff. -Love it. | 0:55:02 | 0:55:05 | |
It's SO my bedroom. | 0:55:05 | 0:55:06 | |
I love you. | 0:55:06 | 0:55:08 | |
-Mwah! -Love it. Thank you so much. | 0:55:08 | 0:55:10 | |
Beautiful, isn't it? He loves it. | 0:55:10 | 0:55:12 | |
-SHE GASPS -Oh, my God. | 0:55:13 | 0:55:15 | |
My God, I love it. I love it so much. | 0:55:15 | 0:55:19 | |
I literally didn't expect this, at all. I'm so happy with it. | 0:55:19 | 0:55:23 | |
Thank you so much, thank you so much. | 0:55:24 | 0:55:27 | |
-We'll cry again if we have a hug! -I know. | 0:55:27 | 0:55:29 | |
Love you so much. So proud of you. | 0:55:30 | 0:55:33 | |
Oh, wow... | 0:55:33 | 0:55:35 | |
What do you think? | 0:55:35 | 0:55:38 | |
Oh, this is so cool. | 0:55:38 | 0:55:39 | |
Amazing. It's crazy. | 0:55:39 | 0:55:41 | |
-Very nice. -It's crazy. | 0:55:41 | 0:55:42 | |
-It is. -VIC LAUGHS | 0:55:42 | 0:55:45 | |
Oh, my God, it's amazing! | 0:55:46 | 0:55:48 | |
Oh, my gosh. I love it. | 0:55:50 | 0:55:51 | |
It's perfect. And I've got a desk to study! | 0:55:52 | 0:55:55 | |
-Oh, I never had a desk before. -Yeah. | 0:55:55 | 0:55:57 | |
What do you make of the house, then? Happy? | 0:55:57 | 0:55:59 | |
Happy beyond words. | 0:55:59 | 0:56:02 | |
-Is it going to work for you all? ALL: -Yeah. -Certainly is. | 0:56:02 | 0:56:04 | |
-Like to meet some of the people that have done this? -Definitely. | 0:56:04 | 0:56:07 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:56:10 | 0:56:11 | |
It's not often that I get stuck for words... | 0:56:22 | 0:56:25 | |
but it might be a moment. | 0:56:25 | 0:56:27 | |
We've just come from | 0:56:28 | 0:56:30 | |
the most beautiful, beautiful home, | 0:56:30 | 0:56:33 | |
above and beyond anything we could have imagined. | 0:56:33 | 0:56:36 | |
But most importantly | 0:56:36 | 0:56:37 | |
all I wanted to be when I had my accident was a mum again. | 0:56:37 | 0:56:41 | |
And although the doctors mended me physically, | 0:56:41 | 0:56:44 | |
and mended all my broken bones... | 0:56:44 | 0:56:46 | |
with everything YOU'VE done | 0:56:46 | 0:56:48 | |
you've mended my heart. Because you've given me my mum duties back again. | 0:56:48 | 0:56:51 | |
You've given ALL of our lives back, though, really. | 0:56:53 | 0:56:56 | |
We can all do our proper roles within the house. | 0:56:56 | 0:56:58 | |
So it means so, so much to all of us. | 0:56:58 | 0:57:00 | |
It's incredible. And there's no way we can thank all of you enough | 0:57:00 | 0:57:02 | |
-for what you've done for us. -Yeah, thank you. | 0:57:02 | 0:57:05 | |
You know, Amanda was determined from the very start - | 0:57:13 | 0:57:15 | |
in fact the evening of her injury - | 0:57:15 | 0:57:17 | |
to let the world know that she was not going to be defined | 0:57:17 | 0:57:20 | |
by her disability. In fact, she goes out into schools and workplaces | 0:57:20 | 0:57:24 | |
and gives lectures on the fact that there IS life after serious injury. | 0:57:24 | 0:57:28 | |
And the medical staff did an amazing job of saving her life and getting her home, | 0:57:28 | 0:57:31 | |
but she couldn't BE a mum - only these people could do that. | 0:57:31 | 0:57:35 | |
And if you're looking for a reason to give your time, volunteering, | 0:57:35 | 0:57:38 | |
what better reason than to make a mum...a mum again? | 0:57:38 | 0:57:42 | |
You know, we can't help everyone - but everyone can help someone. | 0:57:42 | 0:57:45 |