WEBVTT 00:00:01.419 --> 00:00:06.784 My name is Sarah and I was born 19 years ago with one kidney and a hole in my heart. 00:00:08.893 --> 00:00:12.300 I'm going to show you what it's like to be me for a week. 00:00:12.325 --> 00:00:17.177 But first, I'd like to tell you a little bit about what I’ve been through so far. 00:00:21.057 --> 00:00:27.672 I arrived at Queens Park Hospital on Sunday the 3rd September, 1989. 00:00:30.469 --> 00:00:33.046 I was taken to the special care baby unit. 00:00:33.071 --> 00:00:36.398 I weighed about the same as a bag of sugar. 00:00:36.427 --> 00:00:40.757 My clothes were so tiny they’d fit on a small doll. 00:00:41.462 --> 00:00:44.163 Here we are at Queens Park Hospital. 00:00:44.188 --> 00:00:50.322 This is an incubator that I would have been in when I was a baby. But not quite like this one. 00:00:50.347 --> 00:00:51.947 And on this side... 00:00:53.120 --> 00:00:54.120 Sorry. 00:00:54.145 --> 00:01:00.660 We have the oxygen which will be connected to the incubator. 00:01:01.799 --> 00:01:06.739 When I was 7 days old, I was moved to Pendlebury for an operation. 00:01:07.375 --> 00:01:12.673 The doctor said I had one in five chance of surviving. 00:01:13.868 --> 00:01:17.268 But I did survive and here I am a few weeks later. 00:01:19.335 --> 00:01:23.868 Over the next 10 years I went to hospital every month for blood tests. 00:01:25.070 --> 00:01:27.801 But it didn’t stop me having fun, 00:01:27.826 --> 00:01:29.800 and here's the evidence... 00:01:30.542 --> 00:01:34.942 Dressed as a fairy at the school party. I've been a bridesmaid too. 00:01:36.356 --> 00:01:38.005 Even met Barney. 00:01:40.133 --> 00:01:41.867 I've met the Addams Family. 00:01:43.584 --> 00:01:45.041 And Merlin. 00:01:45.878 --> 00:01:49.409 I’ve seen a giant ant and swam with the fishes. 00:01:51.740 --> 00:01:55.995 This is the life support I needed for two weeks in Greece. 00:01:57.660 --> 00:02:01.311 Here I am dancing on a bar in Zanzi. 00:02:02.850 --> 00:02:05.183 I had a transplant two years ago. 00:02:07.319 --> 00:02:10.525 But the hospital made mistakes so they had to remove it. 00:02:11.110 --> 00:02:15.763 In March 2008, I had peritonitis, 00:02:15.790 --> 00:02:19.923 so they removed the tube in my tummy and put one in my neck. 00:02:20.591 --> 00:02:26.097 I'm now on haemodialysis, and here is a week in my life. 00:02:27.625 --> 00:02:32.824 Today is 1st September, I'm not on dialysis yet because 00:02:32.850 --> 00:02:39.436 the cuff is the wrong size for my arm and the cushions are wrong. 00:02:51.095 --> 00:02:53.038 My temperature is 35.8 00:02:55.225 --> 00:03:02.050 Normal. So if it was going up we'd have to get it down before my brains boil out. 00:03:03.433 --> 00:03:08.792 Today is Wednesday, I am 19! And I have to go for dialysis in half an hour, 00:03:08.817 --> 00:03:11.849 but first I'm going to open my birthday card. Yay! 00:03:12.011 --> 00:03:15.936 Today is Thursday and it’s raining back home 00:03:15.961 --> 00:03:19.035 and it’s very sunny, like it always is when we come to Blackpool. 00:03:19.060 --> 00:03:24.482 I've won some toys, and I've bought lots of clothes for my birthday with my birthday money. Yay! 00:03:39.980 --> 00:03:45.632 Today is Saturday, 6th September, and I’m on the dialysis machine. 00:03:45.657 --> 00:03:52.114 I went to bed very late last night looking at actors and singers on my laptop. 00:03:57.400 --> 00:04:01.188 Here I am at the Indian restaurant, I'm going to go and get a starter. 00:04:02.493 --> 00:04:08.306 Nan bread. This is Madras sauce. This is a chicken leg! 00:04:09.847 --> 00:04:14.203 This is an onion bhaji. 00:04:15.890 --> 00:04:17.290 And I’m going to eat it. 00:04:24.652 --> 00:04:30.147 I'm studying a media course at college and managing my dialysis three days a week. 00:04:31.464 --> 00:04:35.229 When I finish my course I will get a diploma. 00:04:35.631 --> 00:04:42.547 If I'm good enough, maybe get a career in media. 00:04:43.455 --> 00:04:47.623 And then who knows, I might even get to interview 00:04:47.648 --> 00:04:54.646 the one and only, the cute, the adorable sweetie, Johnny Depp! 00:04:59.810 --> 00:05:03.528 Well, that's my life and no matter what life throws at you, 00:05:03.553 --> 00:05:06.753 you can still have a good time with what you do. 00:05:07.648 --> 00:05:08.648 Yay!