00:00 My name is Elizabeth Rooney and I've had cancer roughly four times.
00:11 So Elizabeth had cancer first of all when she was three, reoccurred around about six,
00:16 again then somewhere around about seven or eight.
00:19 There's so many adults that would have struggled massively with what she's been through,
00:23 but there's some sort of spirit inside her that's undefeatable.
00:27 I like going to school because I get to see my friends every day.
00:31 But I was noticing it was a bit harder to get round the school at break times and lunch times.
00:38 So I stayed with the boys and her grandmother took her to hospital.
00:41 And so we stayed overnight and then finally they were like, yes, there is something wrong.
00:48 It was in nearly all of her hips, her lungs, her lymph nodes.
00:56 And there was some concerning aspects up on her skull and towards her brain.
01:02 One more would be it and she'd lose her eye so she knew it was on the card.
01:06 They're like, right, we're going to have to do something about this.
01:08 It's growing back too many times.
01:11 And so they were like, OK, we're going to have to remove the eye.
01:17 She cried a bit and then she looked at me and I kind of knew what she was thinking.
01:21 I said, you're allowed to swear if you want.
01:24 So she said, F you cancer and wiped her eyes and went, right, what's next?
01:30 I had heard people dying from it.
01:35 I had never actually encountered it with someone I knew.
01:39 They knew mummy was ill, they knew she was very ill.
01:49 But eventually then we found out that it was in her bones, it was metastatic.
01:53 And that meant it was incurable and terminal.
01:56 And she said if they can hold it back for long enough, then they might find a cure for it.
02:01 And I was quite happy after that then.
02:05 They had found out it was in too many places.
02:08 So they did chemotherapy, helped her a bit, but it wasn't enough.
02:15 And then a couple of days afterwards, she died.
02:22 And the moment when she was going, we'd had a memory come up that morning on Facebook.
02:29 So I made sure that was playing at the very last moment so that she could,
02:33 the last thing she heard was her kids laughing, so that she knew how good she was.
02:40 She'd always had her mum with her for everything she went through,
02:51 all the treatments she'd had, her mum was always by her side.
02:54 So it was a very difficult time for Elizabeth,
02:57 because she had to cope with not having a mum,
03:00 but not having a mum to support her during that difficult time.
03:04 Well, today I'm here to get rid of the other bits of cancer I have now.
03:10 And I'm scared of it because it's in lots more places, my mum's side from it.
03:18 But if you want to start living a happy life,
03:25 you've just got to trek on the path it's decided to give you.
03:31 Even if she's at her most tired after chemotherapy,
03:37 she won't say no to her little brother who wants to do a draw-in.
03:41 When you go for a scan, it's like the scan's eating you.
03:45 You just go in and you come back out of the mouth.
03:50 They're going to check scans and it is shrinking,
03:53 just not as much as the other pieces.
03:55 And so they're thinking we can use radiotherapy to target that one area,
03:59 and then it's gone.
04:01 When I was younger, I didn't really understand it, but now I do, so...
04:06 It's a lot scarier now.
04:08 She's never been more than two, three months since the age of three
04:12 where she hasn't needed to go to hospital.
04:14 The future looks bleak if we go off what we've been told.
04:18 Eventually, she was going to ask the question, "Am I going to die?"
04:21 And the nurse said, "To be honest with her,"
04:23 and told him that she would never go home.
04:25 She was an amazing person.
04:42 From such a young age, she inspired so many people.
04:45 When you have stuff like this,
04:48 you've just got to make the most of the time you have,
04:51 because it may be too late.
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