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cascade_summer_2012_1.5:Cascade_Winter_2011 23/10/2012 13:48 Page 22 22 Cancer Nurse Specialist’s Olympic Role Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust very own Louise Davies was selected as one of the 8,000 torchbearers to carry the Olympic flame as it made it’s way from Land’s End to London. Louise Davies, a neuro-oncology specialist nurse will carried the torch through Taunton on 21 May 2012 as part of the 70- day torch relay. At the time Louise said she was thrilled to have been selected: “I feel incredibly proud and honoured to be taking part in the Olympic Torch Relay, out of all the people that were nominated I couldn't believe I'd been chosen! “I am one of three neuro-oncology specialist nurses based at Derriford Hospital who cover the south west area offering support, advice and care to adults who have been diagnosed with either a brain or spinal tumour. It can be a very demanding job but also a very rewarding one. As a team we endeavour to make things that little bit easier for patients and their families. “I feel immensely privileged to be representing our service, my colleagues and most importantly my patients and their families in what will be a once in a lifetime experience”. Gillian Goodman, who nominated Louise, added: “I nominated Louise as I felt she really deserves to have her hard work recognised and I knew she would tackle the role of torch bearer with the same enthusiasm she offers her patients. Louise is part of a team of equally hard working nurses and feels she will be representing the team, Derriford Hospital and the NHS.” Our Olympic Champions Lee’s Olympic Double! Lee Fergusson, an Audit and Information Facilitator at Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust is celebrating a double achievement having gained two roles at this year’s Olympic Games. Lee was thrilled to have been selected as both a Games Maker and a Team London Ambassador, supporting both the Olympic and Paralympics games, in London this summer. In his role as Games Maker, Lee was part of the Event Services Team at the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, supporting the Paralympic archery and shooting competition. As a Team London Ambassador, Lee was based at Heathrow Airport where he provided useful information on what to see and do, where to stay and how to get around the capital to visitors coming through the terminal. Lee said:” I applied for volunteer positions at the Atlanta games in 1996 and again for Beijing in 2008. The former I had to withdraw from quite early due to Ministry of Defence work commitments, and my wife and I were not selected for the Beijing games. However I was delighted to be selected for the Team London Ambassador role, then again for the Games Maker role in Event Services for London 2012. I have been a volunteer many times for sporting events, mostly in the USA, but the London Olympics is going to be the biggest and most exciting of them all, so I am really looking forward to it. “I have met some incredible people from all walks of life during the training sessions that I have attended for both roles, and no doubt will meet many more amazing people during my time at Heathrow as a Team London Ambassador and at Woolwich for the Paralympic archery and shooting competitions. The atmosphere in London is going to be electric throughout the summer with so many cultural and sporting events taking place, as well as the Olympics and Paralympics!”
cascade_summer_2012_1.5:Cascade_Winter_2011 23/10/2012 13:48 Page 23 23Our Olympic Champions Jayne’s Olympic Journey At the Olympics I was a technical official. A technical official for the Olympics is what we would normally call the recorders role so during the Olympics we’ll be sat at the pool side, the divers will do their diving and as the scores come in through the computer system we sit there with specials forms for each diver, write the scores down and then do all the calculations manually so we’re basically doing a backup system for the computers. If for any reason there was glitch with the computers we would be able to continue running the competition manually, which is really scary! There were 8 of us in total, I’m the only one from Plymouth, the majority of the others were from Leeds or Sheffield, all of us do dive recording for all of the national competitions, I’ve been doing that for nine years nationally. I got into diving through my children dive, my son Stephen dived at a national level and I started as a chaperone and then became a recorder. I now run the diving competitions in Plymouth with one of the head coaches at Plymouth Diving. At poolside we were not allowed to show any emotion or react to the dives, that was really tough because we all know the divers on team GB, we know them really well, and some of the international divers too. It’s incredible and we don’t get the opportunity very often to take part in something so huge, an extra highlight is that we get to go to the opening ceremony, it’s a complete once in a lifetime experience. My family are so excited that I’ve been offered this chance and they keep reminding me not to underestimate what an opportunity it is. I feel so lucky, so privileged to be a part of this Olympics, I never imagined that I’d be that close to it. The Olympic celebrations weren’t limited to departments in the Trust… Emma Parsons and Adrian Rust of Trebor Maintenance planted an Olympic welcome outside the main entrance at Derriford Hospital. Fracture Clinic and Orthopaedic Outpatients Led by the ever-keen (and very creative) Paul Hazell, Orthopaedic Plaster Technician, both Fracture Clinic and Orthopaedic Outpatients were given Olympic makeovers to mark the occassion. Flags of the world and Team GB bunting festooned the ceilings alongside Olympic Rings and mascots. The team also screened Olympic events for the benefit of patients (and staff) who passed through the departments during the Olympics and Paralympics.
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