I'm Rebecca and this is a day in the life of me starting from 7 o'clock when I wake up.
My condition is spina bifida and I can't walk at all or stand up.
I can't use my legs.
Most people wonder how I get in and out of bed and it's not actually that hard.
I just put my arm on my wheelchair, put one hand on my bed,
and then I just slide in and it's actually not that hard.
At the moment, my shower isn’t working downstairs,
it's like a wheel-in shower, so I'm going to use the bath lift.
It's a seat in the bath and it goes up and down,
there's a remote here, this is for going down...
This one is for going up.
It's really useful. I can just slide onto the seat and then have a shower.
Because I can't walk up and down the stairs I have to use this lift.
It's really useful for getting up and down.
Here's the control system.
You press "door", closing the door.
And then I go inside.
Then you press "down", and it goes down.
It’s really simple.
Before we lived here, we had a house with two flights of stairs so it was really hard to get around.
So that's really good because you've got this lift.
Mum! Can I have some breakfast please?
Yeah! Coming!
Thanks.
What would you like?
Can I have honey on toast please?
- Toast with? - Honey.
- Okay. - Thank you.
Because I can't get around the kitchen that well, I can't reach all the cupboards,
so in the mornings it's really good because Mum makes my breakfast which is really cool.
At about 08:10 every morning, my transport comes to pick me up for school.
They take me all the way to school which is really good.
They should be outside right now.
There they are.
Morning.
At the moment they're just strapping me in to make sure I don't move around.
So here we are at school, just getting unstrapped.
So I just go through that gate, now I go down the ramp.
Okay, and I'm at school.
Hi. I've just come back from school.
When I get home I usually just sit on the sofa.
When we get home we love to listen to music.
Hey. Now I'm at the swimming pool.
It's about 19:30, so I'm just about to get changed and then I'm going to get in the pool.
This is the lift to the pool.
There are loads of stairs so I need to use the lift.
Great, I'm going to get changed now.
Basically, I've got a hoist which is like a wheelchair.
The lifeguard will wind it up and then push it into the pool and then wind it down.
I just slide off the chair, into the pool.
I can't just climb out of the pool like everyone else.
Hey! I just got back from swimming.
Sorry I didn't get to show you my bus trip. It was a bit interesting.
The ramp broke and Roxanne had to help me on, so it wasn't that good.
It usually happens, so I'm used to it by now.
It's about 22:15 now.
I'm absolutely shattered so I'm going to go to bed.
Off I go in the lift. Again.
Just as I came up, Matthew, my little brother... hello,
decided that he would wake up and come and annoy me,
so I'm going to read him a bedtime story which is something I usually do.
Yay!
"Sid lived in six houses so that he could have six dinners..."
So that was my day, I'm just about to go to sleep.
So... thanks for watching, I suppose!