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MOTHER AND DAUGHTER TRISH AND CLEO TELL US ABOUT TREKKING TO EVEREST BASE CAMP AND THE TWELVE DIPS OF CHRISTMAS · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

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  Speaker 1: So it's time to move on to the lovely hub
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  Speaker 1: of ash. I just love this bit. And we're joined
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  Speaker 1: by Cleo Smith, who has recently returned from trekking up
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  Speaker 1: to Mount Everest.
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  Speaker 2: Hello Cleo, how are you?
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  Speaker 3: Hello?
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  Speaker 4: Kevin, I'm well, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Good good excellence, and so it's nice to see you
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  Speaker 1: back in one piece anyway. But we're also joined by
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  Speaker 1: Cleo's mum, Trish. Now, hello Trish, how are you well?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you Kevin, good excellence. So this is so good,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to get the family in. So Trish, you're
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  Speaker 1: doing it or helping or supporting Cleo's challenge. And I
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  Speaker 1: was joking he said about the twelve dips of Christmas?
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  Speaker 1: So what is the twelve dips of Christmas?
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  Speaker 5: Okay, the twelve dicks of Christmas are actually in the sea.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah I wouldn't see.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, so clear, we'll have to run into the
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  Speaker 5: sea twelve times, diper shoulders in all for cancer research.
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  Speaker 2: Right, okay, dogy, so clear? How are you feeling about that?
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  Speaker 3: I've done a couple already, and yeah, it's it takes
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  Speaker 3: a while to sort of get yourself into the sea.
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  Speaker 3: But once you're over that big hard or it's.
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  Speaker 1: And that that is something that's really cool on since COVID,
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  Speaker 1: that's for sure.
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  Speaker 2: But so is there a special reason why Cleo was
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  Speaker 2: doing this?
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  Speaker 6: I myself had cancer.
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  Speaker 5: I was diagnosed in May where it was devastating on
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  Speaker 5: the family, especially for Cleo, Harriet, Oliver, Divina and Rod.
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  Speaker 5: So it was quite hard to take in and it's
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  Speaker 5: a very emotional thing to talk about. So with all
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  Speaker 5: the treatments, I had six weeks of radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
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  Speaker 5: So Cleo thought that she would help everybody else. We
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  Speaker 5: do have the friends that have cancer, especially Amy at
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  Speaker 5: work and home on thinking of you, Amy.
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  Speaker 1: So okay, So well, I'll tell you what clear. First
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  Speaker 1: of all, I'll just I'm busting to ask you about
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  Speaker 1: We'll come back to literal sure, right, but I'm really
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  Speaker 1: really anxious to find out how about how your your
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  Speaker 1: trip to base camp went? So I don't know, let's
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  Speaker 1: let's start with the flight out.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have any you know?
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  Speaker 1: Was it easy or it wasn't there an issue you
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  Speaker 1: missed a flight or something, there wasn't enough room, wasn't
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  Speaker 1: it was that.
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  Speaker 3: It the well, our flight obviously out to Catman do
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  Speaker 3: was all okay? But the flight from Lukela to sorry,
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  Speaker 3: from Catmandu to Lukela, because of the skies, it wasn't
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  Speaker 3: clear enough to fly, so we were delayed by two days,
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  Speaker 3: so we couldn't fly. We ended up getting helicopter instead,
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  Speaker 3: so because otherwise we would have been delayed for probably
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  Speaker 3: more three or four more days.
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  Speaker 2: What did you do for two days?
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  Speaker 3: We stayed in Rama Chap, which is a really small
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  Speaker 3: village in Catman Do, or just outside CapMan Do, and
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  Speaker 3: we just kept walking down to the airfield and looking
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  Speaker 3: at all the helicopters taken off before us.
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  Speaker 1: And did you have any sort of inclination that if
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  Speaker 1: the weather didn't change your weather, you'd be going by helicopter.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Our guide kept us up to day constantly. There were
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  Speaker 3: so many people they are waiting to go, and if
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  Speaker 3: you cane, a helicopter can only fly four people at
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  Speaker 3: a time, and the smaller aircraft could take up to
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  Speaker 3: twenty and they were normally fly out every sort of hour,
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  Speaker 3: so there was a lot of people waiting to fly.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot of being stuck at Getwig for
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  Speaker 1: half on air is it?
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  Speaker 6: No?
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  Speaker 1: Okay? So you finally get there, so there's three of
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  Speaker 1: you doing it, isn't there. So you get there and
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  Speaker 1: what's your first impression?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? What have we let ourselves in for the first night?
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  Speaker 3: Because we landed by helicopter in the dark, and it
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  Speaker 3: was a bit daunting because it was also raining and
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  Speaker 3: we had a three hour walk ahead.
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  Speaker 4: Of us up Rocky Terreen.
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  Speaker 3: So really the first impression was like, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 3: I've got eight days of this with this weather. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it was a little bit daunting, it was a little
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  Speaker 3: bit unsafe. We obviously had stand with us who did
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  Speaker 3: struggle a little bit because you obviously can't see in
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  Speaker 3: the rope bridges and.
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  Speaker 4: Things like that.
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  Speaker 3: But it kind of puts you in the right frame
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  Speaker 3: of mind and you then become excited.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, so the first night treacherous.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so it's it's not you kind of realize
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  Speaker 1: what you're letting yourself in for. I suppose there and
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  Speaker 1: you think, right, this is it for the next day days.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to accept that I was suppose to turn
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  Speaker 1: it around. Other was you just as well get the
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  Speaker 1: helicopter and yeah, okay, So I mean what sort of
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  Speaker 1: conditions were you like living in, you know, sleeping in
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  Speaker 1: and what was food like that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 4: We stayed in tea houses.
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  Speaker 3: The higher and the closer we got to base camp,
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  Speaker 3: obviously it was more basic. The food was just it
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  Speaker 3: was rice noodles. We no meat because they advise not
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  Speaker 3: to eat meat because they store it and takes four
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  Speaker 3: or five days to get to its final dest nations.
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  Speaker 4: So it was advised not to eat any meats.
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  Speaker 3: But the food was okay, regular breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
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  Speaker 3: You were choosing your breakfast at dinner time and your
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  Speaker 3: dinner at breakfast.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, did you miss anything? You must have started
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  Speaker 1: missing things early on.
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  Speaker 4: Mainly sweet stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I think, yeah, puddings and things like that. I don't
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  Speaker 3: eat an awful lot of them at home, but you
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  Speaker 3: start to crave things like that when you're away.
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  Speaker 1: Oh dear, okay, so how many what goes up must
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  Speaker 1: come down? So basically tears about your trip up and
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  Speaker 1: about your trip down.
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  Speaker 3: So you have eight days to reach base camp, with
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  Speaker 3: a couple of acclimatization days in the middle. You're walking
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  Speaker 3: probably for between six to eight hours a day, and
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  Speaker 3: actually the weather during the day is really nice and warm,
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  Speaker 3: so it's actually quite pleasurable walking in shorts and t shirts.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously you've got your rucksack as well. But nighttime is
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  Speaker 3: quite cold in the tea houses, so you were sleeping
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  Speaker 3: in thermals and you're sleeping bag and a duvet. And
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  Speaker 3: then obviously once we reached base camp, we then had
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  Speaker 3: one night just outside of base camp before we started
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  Speaker 3: our six day descents.
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  Speaker 1: Right, and at base camp are there people that take
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  Speaker 1: did you meet or speak to anybody that carries on
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  Speaker 1: that goes up?
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  Speaker 3: Not there, But we did meet two young lads twins
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  Speaker 3: at Namche who actually one of the brothers had actually
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  Speaker 3: summited Everest and his brother wanted to reach base camp,
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  Speaker 3: so he'd gone back to to get to base camp
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  Speaker 3: with his twin.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, right, so you say about the altitude, obviously it
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  Speaker 1: gets a bit thinner, and how did that affect you?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, were you all okay?
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  Speaker 3: So, Emma amazing did not suffer with any altitude sickness
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  Speaker 3: at all. Sam he became quite breathless, and a previous
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  Speaker 3: illness he had pleurisy a couple of years ago, and
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  Speaker 3: he struggled a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: So he was advised to.
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  Speaker 3: Go down, go back down, and then I suffered quite
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  Speaker 3: badly with altitude sickness for about four days.
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  Speaker 2: What altitude sickness? What is it? You just feel wobbly
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  Speaker 2: or you feel.
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  Speaker 3: You just I lost I think it's different for everybody.
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  Speaker 3: I lost complete appetite. I didn't eat for three or
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  Speaker 3: four days, and obviously my guide was making me drink
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  Speaker 3: lots of fluids, mainly hot water, which is not particularly
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  Speaker 3: very nice, and lemon and lemon tea. But you just
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  Speaker 3: feel exhausted because you're not eating, you haven't got the energy,
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  Speaker 3: and you get back to your tea house and you
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  Speaker 3: just want to sleep and you stay there too early
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  Speaker 3: in the.
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  Speaker 1: Morning, Yeah, because you're feeling but you did certainly need
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  Speaker 1: the energy walking, you know, several needles in.
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  Speaker 4: Your feet fingers as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that so true. You're back at home and what
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  Speaker 1: else it feel for a parent? Like you know, you've
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  Speaker 1: just come out of honest yourself, but you're worrying like
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  Speaker 1: all parents do.
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  Speaker 2: Did you have any contact at all with Cleo?
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  Speaker 5: Not the further up that not the further up that
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  Speaker 5: she goes she went, but didn't have a lot of
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  Speaker 5: contact a toy. I don't think we spoke for about
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  Speaker 5: three days and obviously she was poorly and it was
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  Speaker 5: so worrying. I kept saying to Rod, I'm so worried,
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  Speaker 5: you know, blood blah there is I don't think she
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  Speaker 5: saw a doctor for three days after she was poorly.
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  Speaker 5: I was going to cancel the holiday and obviously fly
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  Speaker 5: over there.
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  Speaker 2: And bring her back, that's what mums do.
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  Speaker 6: But Rod assured me, no, I'm sure she's going to
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  Speaker 6: be fine. Let's not cancel the holiday.
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  Speaker 5: So it is worrying, is I think for any parent
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  Speaker 5: whose child is going over, regardless of how old.
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  Speaker 4: They are or young.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, did you get to to meet Cleo
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  Speaker 1: and the team when they came off the plane.
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  Speaker 5: No, because the day that Cleo actually flew into England,
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  Speaker 5: we flew out to Are you sure.
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  Speaker 1: There was another period for a week after there was
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  Speaker 1: another period of time?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, at least you knew she was back home safe.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. We did sort of FaceTime and talk on the phone.
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  Speaker 5: And I was more relaxed then because she was home.
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  Speaker 5: And I said to Devina, make sure mum goes to
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  Speaker 5: see the doctor. Yeh here because she still had an
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  Speaker 5: infection chest infection, yeah, straight infection, et cetera.
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  Speaker 1: And did you ever like apart from the illness that
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  Speaker 1: you got checked out? Was it a clean bit of health,
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  Speaker 1: just a matter of reacclimatizing to sea level.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, just getting back to normal.
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  Speaker 3: I had a chest infection when I got back after about.
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  Speaker 4: A week than artist, it's cleared up.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, it takes a while to get back into
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  Speaker 3: sort of normal life.
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  Speaker 4: Really yeah, well good.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Okay, what we're gonna We're going to play a
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  Speaker 1: bit of music and I've picked this one up because
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  Speaker 1: this is really for you, Cleo, but with the support
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  Speaker 1: of your mum, because now you've got this challenge coming up.
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  Speaker 1: Are you bonkers or something doing all these challenges? But no,
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  Speaker 1: this is like definitely at sea level. The next challenge,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it. You've got to get into the sea twelve
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  Speaker 1: times in Christmas? So you're going to love this. What
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  Speaker 1: this one is by a foreigner and it's called Cold
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  Speaker 1: de Ice.
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  Speaker 6: You're as cold Ice.
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  Speaker 3: You're willing to let me go.
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  Speaker 1: That's foreigner there, Cold des Ice. Especially for Cleo's next
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  Speaker 1: dip in the sea. When she's getting in she you
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  Speaker 1: think of that song. Okay, let's come back to you
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  Speaker 1: and a Trish Natrish. Now you're not actually doing the challenge,
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  Speaker 1: but you're supporting Clear because of your recent illness. It's
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  Speaker 1: obviously you're doing the right thing, being safe rather than
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  Speaker 1: just running into the sea. But do you do you
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  Speaker 1: wish yourself that you were well enough to do it
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  Speaker 1: or you're quite happy not to Okay.
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  Speaker 5: Happy to just go along and shout, come on Clear,
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  Speaker 5: you can do it instead of getting into the freezing
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  Speaker 5: cold water.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think Actually Evan, your mum there
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  Speaker 1: on the day that must think I've got to do this.
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  Speaker 2: You know, this is why, this is why I'm doing it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 3: And there's other people down the beach as well that
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  Speaker 3: give you encouragement, but you know you're there with a purpose.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yeah great. So have you been a swimmer yourself?
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  Speaker 6: For Trusia, I love swimming. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: My partner actually goes swimming in a swimming pool.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Every morning wakes me up at half past five. Do
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  Speaker 5: you want to come?
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  Speaker 6: No? But yeah I love swimming.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I do a lot of swimming and I will go back.
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  Speaker 1: You will go so once once you're you get your
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  Speaker 1: strength back on that, you will go back to swimming.
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  Speaker 2: Year.
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  Speaker 5: One of the things that we kept asking our oncologist
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  Speaker 5: or my own cologist was can I go swimming? And
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  Speaker 5: it was a firm nor because of all the infections
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  Speaker 5: that you can actually pick in a swimming Yes, so
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  Speaker 5: that was one of the hard things that I couldn't do.
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  Speaker 1: But the further on you go in your recovery and
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  Speaker 1: you would be okay, yeah, yeah, oh good.
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  Speaker 5: It's just really the last month that he has said, yes,
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  Speaker 5: that's fine, you can go swimming.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Right.
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  Speaker 1: So, I mean, again, it's a tough time for your family,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it, As you said, because I lost my sister
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  Speaker 1: to cancer. I've been supporting Race for Life, as you
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  Speaker 1: probably know, twenty years and every time I go up
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  Speaker 1: to Race for Life, there's always a different story, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and it really grabs your heart, it really does. And
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  Speaker 1: sometimes it's not so much in recent days, but we
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  Speaker 1: used to interview people or people wanted to share their story.
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  Speaker 1: They would get up on the stage and they just
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  Speaker 1: went through hell on that stage. But they just felt
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  Speaker 1: that they wanted to encourage other people that there's loads
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  Speaker 1: of help out and so what about your experiences during realness?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what support and things like that tell us
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  Speaker 2: about that?
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  Speaker 5: So like so when we first got the dying the diagnosis.
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  Speaker 5: The impact on the family was huge. Harriet, my youngest
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  Speaker 5: daughter couldn't talk to me without crying. Clear was obviously upset,
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  Speaker 5: but sort of grab the ball by the horns. Divina
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  Speaker 5: her she came to radiotherapy on my very first radio
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  Speaker 5: therapy treatment.
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  Speaker 2: She's a nurse, she is, that's right.
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  Speaker 5: She was like glue to be honest everywhere I want.
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  Speaker 5: She was there when the first when I first went
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  Speaker 5: in for my first radio therapy, a man rang a
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  Speaker 5: bell and Divina just break down in tears, crying. It's
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  Speaker 5: really hard on the families. I don't think people really
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  Speaker 5: understand how hard it is for the family. Obviously, being
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  Speaker 5: the person who is sick, you tend to sleep a lot.
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  Speaker 5: But that impact is my grandson Oliver. He came round
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  Speaker 5: and he is a big, strapping lag now and he
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  Speaker 5: just gave me a cuddle and burst into tears.
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  Speaker 2: Actually broke my heart.
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  Speaker 1: Just for the purpose of the listeners, I know what
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  Speaker 1: it means, but to tell us about that person that
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  Speaker 1: rang the bill.
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  Speaker 2: What's the significance of ringing the bell.
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  Speaker 5: The significance of ringing the bell is that your treatment
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  Speaker 5: is over, so your end of your chemotherapy and radio therapy.
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  Speaker 6: That is over.
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  Speaker 5: But once that is over, really is then you're sort
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  Speaker 5: of on the journey to get well again. So you
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  Speaker 5: still see the oncologist. I myself had to have an
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  Speaker 5: operation and then something that's called bracket therapy, which you
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  Speaker 5: have to have a six break six weeks break in between,
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  Speaker 5: which is you know, you get better from one thing
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  Speaker 5: and then you go into another thing.
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  Speaker 6: And you say, the.
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  Speaker 5: Support from your family is really important and friends. I
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  Speaker 5: have really good friends friends around me that give me
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  Speaker 5: lots of support to And my partner Rod, bless him,
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  Speaker 5: he had to put up with me all night female
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  Speaker 5: asking food and he'd make me food and bring it
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  Speaker 5: in and now can't eat that, yes, with your taste pits,
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  Speaker 5: et cetera. But the one major thing was always the
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  Speaker 5: water because you have to drink a certain amount of water.
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  Speaker 2: When you drink a lot of water, then you.
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  Speaker 6: Have told on to it for a couple of hours.
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  Speaker 1: But it was yeah, okay, so right clear, let's switch
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  Speaker 1: back to you now. So just a couple of questions
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  Speaker 1: about or little experiences. And I'd like you to tell me.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, when when you say you had all these
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  Speaker 1: pins and needles, and you had this altitude sickness. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: what did you say think of what kept you going?
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  Speaker 1: Because at the time, was you aware that your mum
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  Speaker 1: you of course she was aware, but you wasn't doing
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: it for that. You were raising money? What was you
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  Speaker 1: raising money for?
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  Speaker 4: For people living with dementia?
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  Speaker 2: All right? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: And I remember last time you were in that you
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  Speaker 1: have made thousands? So have you actually as the go
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  Speaker 1: funding page stop?
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  Speaker 3: Now, we're still actually receiving money coming in. We're actually
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  Speaker 3: picking up a check from a school that has fundraised
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  Speaker 3: for us while we was away. But so far are
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  Speaker 3: total at the moment, it's just under twenty seven our
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  Speaker 3: targets thirty.
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  Speaker 2: What was your to thirty?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, dear, that is absolutely stunning. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And is that that money at the moment? Is it
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  Speaker 1: still in a port somewhere or is it re released?
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  Speaker 3: It's been released to support the running of our dimensional services. Yep, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: so it's gone into our charity.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's a fabulous thing to do. So Sam, was it?
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  Speaker 2: Sam?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Is he okay?
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  Speaker 6: Now?
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  Speaker 3: He's okay, he's fully recovered. He's doing his Christmas duties
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  Speaker 3: throughout December, and he's got a full diary.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: So yeah, he's of course he looks like father Christmas.
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: And the other lady, Emma, Emma, how.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: She she's really well, like I said she did amazingly.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: She's actually going on holiday to Mexico next week. Yeah,
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: so yeah, she's doing really well.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: Great.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: Okay, look before we go, I think we just told
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: me it's off an hour gone on this show, really
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: and I know for a fact some of the sport
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: is going to have to be put back till Saturday,
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: but we don't care. This is so interesting. So let's
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: start with you. Trish, you got you must have. Just
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: tell me to thank you and the name drops and
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: you know things like that. People you want to thank
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: and say hello to anyone at work listening.
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: Okay, say hello to everybody at work.
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: Hello. Sarah.
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: I work with Sarah, and when I got my diagnose,
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: I didn't actually go and have treatment for about four weeks,
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: and I went to work up to the day before
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: I had my treatment, and Sarah was really supportive.
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: She knows me inside out. So thank you Sarah.
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: Obviously, Joe and Amy Amy as our friend who her
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: mom is still going through treatment. So good luck there, Amy,
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: I say thank you to all my family because I
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: love them all.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: I know most of your family that you've said already,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: and I know they are a great bunch and I
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: know that they would be right behind all the way.
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: But also a big thing.
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: Thank you to Canterbury Hospital so I had all my treatment.
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: My doctor Dr.
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: Nathan was amazing and the surgeon I'm sure his name
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: is Dr Norman come back to me.
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: He was absolutely amazing.
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: He was brilliant, changed my life. And to their teams
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: because with that that team around them, you know, it
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: just wouldn't happen.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: No, that's right, Yeah, okay, then clear the last few
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: words from you.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: So your fundraising has gone well?
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, is there anybody you want to think from
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: your point of view on the fundraising and your your tricking.
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: Just all the people that supported us.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: We've been really supported by local businesses, the community of
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: all pulled together. We've held so many fundraising events that
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: people have come along to. You know, we've raised a
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: lot of money that we didn't think that we would raise.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: So just thank you really to everybody that's been that's
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: taken part and supported us.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: And did you really think that did you? Did you
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: set the target of thirty thousand pounds, thinking we're not
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: going to get anywhere near that, but but you you're
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: nearly Yeah.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: Our original target was ten thousand because we paid for
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: the the track ourselves and some we very quickly reached
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: that ten thousand pound target and then we increased it
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: to thirty thinking oh we' are going to reach thirty.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah far off it?
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Ah, yeah, brilliant. Okay, So if you're your site is
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: it just giving? Site is still going? Ow can people
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: as they've heard this interview for the first time and
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: realize they want to support you, how can they donate?
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: They can donate through our website which is a UK
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: heide Limit and Ashford, or they can find us on
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: Facebook or Twitter and Instagram.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Okay, So mum and daughter, thank you so much for
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: coming in. It's been it's been a wonderful morning really,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: And I've known you both for a number of years
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: now and I know what a lovely family you've got
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: and how much they would have supported you through your
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: trekking and through your illness and now through your swimming.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: And I think you need to get Harriet nick in
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: a bikini down then you listening Harriet and okay, thank
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: you so much for coming in and we're going to
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: report back when you've done your twelve dips.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Okay, thank you, Trish and thank you Clear.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Okay, a bit of music now that we're running about
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: off on their light, but we don't care.
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: Do you know? And do you know? Do you know?
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: Don't you know what it means like