Dolls made by a loving Harborough mum

The Harborough Mail

Dolls made by a loving Harborough mum are travelling the world to visit the places her poorly daughter is not able to. Jan Hamilton created a peg doll to represent brave daughter Sophie, who has incurable cancer.

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00:00 Oh no, it's the skirt, doesn't matter.

00:03 I was in that first hospital for three months

00:26 and I essentially couldn't eat for that whole time.

00:29 I think I lost three stone.

00:31 And for me being a former professional dancer,

00:33 I was like, "Marvellous!"

00:35 I've got the ballet physique I always wanted.

00:38 This is my isolation room.

00:46 Here's my little toilet.

00:48 There's my little window.

00:49 When I went into the room and they said,

00:54 "You've got cancer, you've got stage four cancer."

00:57 Of course my first words were, "Am I gonna die?"

00:59 Because that's what we worry about, isn't it?

01:01 But I knew I'd got Ollie, my son,

01:04 sitting, waiting by my bed.

01:07 So I knew I just had to take a really, really big,

01:11 very deep breath, put on the boxing gloves and brave pants,

01:15 and turn it into a positive.

01:17 So I just walked in and went, "It's fine, it's fine.

01:19 "I've got cancer, but it's gonna be okay.

01:21 "It's gonna be absolutely fine."

01:22 After the surgery, the surgeons essentially said

01:27 I'd got the all clear, and then about a year later,

01:31 after a long recovery, it turns out

01:34 that it hadn't been all clear,

01:35 and that it had been there all the time.

01:37 So I thought I'd give you all a laugh.

01:48 I am now officially an elephant.

01:56 We need the research.

01:58 Without the research, we can't get anywhere,

02:00 and it's the research that gives us hope,

02:03 and it's the research that keeps you going

02:05 as a cancer patient, hoping that something new will come,

02:09 because it does, doesn't it?

02:10 It does, and that's what we need.

02:13 When you start to get really, really, really poorly,

02:16 that's when it's a different ballgame,

02:18 and I understand that totally.

02:21 I still won't give up then, either.

02:22 I just, you know, there's something I refuse.

02:25 I point blank refuse.

02:27 I just wanted to do something, anything, to help Sophie,

02:41 and I couldn't do what I wanted to do,

02:43 which was make her better,

02:47 and so I thought, well, fundraising was a good thing,

02:52 and I looked at some Christmas decorations,

02:55 and that's where the idea came from,

02:57 and this little creature emerged

03:00 that reminded me of Sophie, beautiful and smiling

03:04 and with her arms out, ready to give everybody a hug,

03:07 and I thought she embodies the spirit,

03:10 which I know so well, in Sophie.

03:13 My mum is my saviour.

03:14 She's the one that's literally helped me through

03:16 every single day my mum has been there.

03:20 - No, I mean, I touched the glue.

03:22 - Oh, you did?

03:23 (laughing)

03:24 - I am so touched that people have tuned in

03:26 to what it's all about,

03:28 and so it's kind of given us an awful lot back, hasn't it?

03:33 - Yeah, yeah.

03:33 - We're still sending them out, anyway, aren't we?

03:35 - We are.

03:36 (gentle music)

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