I'm looking back at these three courageous women who shared amazing stories with Wearside Echoes
Three incredible women shared their courageous life stories in some of the most emotional episodes of the Wearside Echoes podcast.
A decade of health battles and all caused by a tick bite
Evie Field - known to millions of followers as Evie Meg and This Trippy Hippie - had the world at her feet before illness threatened to change everything.
But from eight years old onwards, she dedicated her life to gymnastics. She became a British champion at 11 and did acrobatic gymnastics until she was 16. She left after a second ‘really nasty’ elbow injury which coincided with the start of Evie’s health issues.
Evie’s social media went from one million to ten million followers inside a year. It now stands at 15.7 million people.
Eventually, Evie got answers to her health issues - that it had all been caused by a bite from a tick which may have been as small as a poppy seed, and it could have happened when she was much younger, possibly around ten years ago.
The sign that said ‘I love you’
Kayleigh Llewellyn had flu symptoms in 2019 and was laid in bed for a couple of days.
She recovered and seemed to be on the mend until the dormant virus attacked her heart and left her fighting for life two weeks later.
Kayleigh had a heart transplant in 2019 but only came home in January 2020 after 102 days in hospital.
Mum Sonia recalled the day that she and partner Shaun Sidney saw their daughter for the first time after the operation, and Kayleigh made a sign to say ‘I love you’.
‘I honestly believe that he was put on this earth to do a job, and I think he smashed it’
Gemma Lowery gave an emotional insight into the life of her son Bradley, the little boy who had such a huge impact on the world.
Bradley lost his fight to neuroblastoma, a rare and aggressive form of childhood cancer, in July of 2017.
But Gemma said: “I honestly believe that he was put on this earth to do a job, and I think he smashed it. He did that job which was to raise awareness of childhood cancer and he did that so well.”
You can also enjoy all the previous episodes of Wearside Echoes series 3 and we are delighted to have Mobility Care Solutions on board as our backers.
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