{"id":143935,"date":"2018-06-20T17:05:02","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T17:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/appeal-to-find-silly-1989-addenbrookes-cancer-nurse-debbie\/"},"modified":"2018-06-20T17:05:02","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T17:05:02","slug":"appeal-to-find-silly-1989-addenbrookes-cancer-nurse-debbie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/appeal-to-find-silly-1989-addenbrookes-cancer-nurse-debbie\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal to find ‘silly’ 1989 Addenbrooke’s cancer nurse Debbie"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"LizImage copyright Liz Brown
Image caption Liz Brown's appeal to find nurse Debbie (right) has been shared more than 1,000 times <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A woman has appealed for help to track down the nurse who did "silly things" to make having cancer as a teenager "less painful" 30 years ago.<\/p>\n

Liz Brown spent four months of 1989 in Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, with aggressive osteoblastoma after waking up paralysed on her 14th birthday.<\/p>\n

She said one nurse, Debbie, would give her jobs to do and "take the mick out of her" to ease her time in hospital.<\/p>\n

Ms Brown's Twitter appeal has been retweeted more than 1,000 times.<\/p>\n

Addenbrooke's Hospital has said it is putting an appeal in its daily newsletter to see if anyone can help with identifying Debbie.<\/p>\n

Image copyright Liz Brown
Image caption Liz Brown had to learn to walk again after her cancer diagnosis <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ms Brown, originally from Peterborough, said that after being taken to hospital with the spinal tumour she was placed on a children's ward.<\/p>\n

"[Debbie] saw how hard I found it being on that ward with 14-year-old hormones flying around and being told pretty much that I was going to die," she added<\/p>\n

"She would give me jobs to do and take the mick out of me. She gave me a job as a postman so I could deliver post to the adult patients, silly things like that to make it less painful than it could be."<\/p>\n

Image copyright Liz Brown
Image caption Liz Brown was not expected to live more than five years <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ms Brown, who now lives in East Riding, had to learn to walk again and was given the all-clear from the osteoblastoma near her neck five years later.<\/p>\n

She said Debbie inspired her own career in support work and wants to track her down to say "thank you and what she did for me".<\/p>\n

"My prognosis was very poor. I wasn't expected to live more than five years, but now I'm 43 with three children and there's not a wheelchair in sight. <\/p>\n

"She might have thought she was doing her job but it went above and beyond that. Those little things you did made me get through that."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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