Hero of the Week

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I've decided to give this post a bump. I'd really like to get this meme off the ground, but no-one else seems interested. Boo! Sob! Anyway, here's the info again.


I've been inspired to start a new meme. The basic premise of Hero of the Week, is that once a week, on Thursday, participants nominate someone as their Hero of the Week. It can be anyone, and for any reason. Maybe your sporting hero set a new record. Perhaps your partner did something really special for you. Or perhaps someone in your local community achieved something amazing. The choice is yours. Your hero doesn't even have to be human! It could be your pet, or an animal you've read about, that did something incredible. Hopefully, this scheme will give you lots of scope.

Would you like to join me? I really hope so. All you have to do is snag the above image, and place it somewhere in your post about your nominated hero. I'd also really appreciate a link to this blog. I hope some of you will join in and make me feel important :).

Hero of the Week #1

Welcome to my brand new meme, Hero of the Week. First things first, here are the rules:

1. Grab the image above, and save it to your own blog or web space.
2. Create a blog post nominating your hero of the week.
3. The Hero of the Week can be anyone, from someone you know, to someone you've heard/read about, who you think is worthy of hero status. As I'm all for loose interpretation, your hero can be a group of people, not just an individual. It can be a company, organization, etc. It can even be an animal who you feel has done something heroic.
4. Please include the above image, and a link to this blog, in your entry.
5. Come back here and leave me a comment to let me know you're participating.
6. Visit others!

Okay, with the rules out of the way, I'd like to nominate Dr. Malcolm Coulthard and Nurse Jean Crosier as my heroes of the week. Based at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary, Dr. Coulthard and Nurse Crosier didn't just go the extra mile to save the life of a young patient - you could say they went the extra light year.

Their newborn patient, Millie Kelly, was born with a condition called gastroschisis. Her bowels had developed outside her body. She needed an emergency operation to correct the problem. Sadly, Millie went into kidney failure during surgery. Weighing just a smidgen over 6lb, there wasn't a dialysis machine available anywhere that was small enough for her. She was too tiny even for machines designed for children. Millie's mum, Rebecca, was told her baby would probably die.

However, Dr. Coulthard and Nurse Crosier weren't prepared to let this happen. What did they do? Well, they designed a tiny kidney dialysis machine, then put it together in their own time, outside the hospital. Little Millie was hooked up to the dialysis machine for a week, which gave her kidneys enough time to recover from the trauma of surgery. Millie is now a normal, happy, healthy two-year-old. Isn't that amazing? You can read more about the whole story here.

That's my Hero of the Week award nomination for this week? What's yours? I really hope you'll play along. I shall sulk if you don't :).