00:00Alex has been introduced to a private trust organizer in the hope of
00:04beginning his own formal fundraising organization your year is going to be
00:10full of exciting moves forward things some things you haven't even done
00:15before the search is on for the costly equipment that could transform Alex and
00:22his family's life rocket boosters yeah the cost of it all told with prosthetics is
00:36about 24 and a half thousand pounds that money is worth every penny for it you
00:42know I mean that Lucy and I can go out with Sam with his bike you know we can do
00:47stuff to family you can't really put a price on a little bit of independence
00:58over the next few months Alex's trust begins raising its first money a team of
01:07volunteers join with a goal to raise the three million pounds Alex is estimated to
01:12need over the course of his lifetime
01:14woman phoned me up today at work and told me that she was in the shower thinking about you this
01:18morning
01:19how's that brilliant
01:22in your shower thinking about me
01:24she's in the shower her and her husband
01:27you touch people you make them by your toilets
01:31that is pretty much what the support is yeah
01:35she constantly takes the piss
01:42now 22 months after falling ill Alex is striving ahead and the trust is delivering
01:56well I thought I was about to get home
01:58can we have a try
02:00no
02:01why
02:01not yet because I've got one
02:03yeah
02:07this looks like it's a giant old sky
02:16now as the time's going by I see something new happen every week
02:21I see him now open up a fridge I see him now pour himself a drink of squash
02:26he's very very independent now and he wants to do it all himself
02:34all of this is attitude of mind and life if you want your life you will go out and get
02:43it
02:57he's very bright
02:57so
02:57is
03:29We were just an ordinary family. Me, Lucy and our son Sam. Then, just over two years ago, I caught
03:37a common cold.
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