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‘I never really knew what I wanted to do after I left school … I um’d and ah’d over a number of degrees but finally decided to take a year out and work with the elderly in their own homes as a domicillary worker. I’ve never looked back and I’m now working in a hospital on an elderly ward … its hard work and extremely testing at times but it’s so rewarding that I couldn’t imagine working anywhere else now. I realised how precious life is when an elderly lady came to us one day … she knew she was dying but through it, she still managed to look on the bright side of life. As she sat and held my hand in her final hours, she told me about her life … and told me something which I’ll never forget. ‘Live life to the fullest, regret nothing and take risks … because you only get one shot at life, so make the most of it’ That’s when I fell in love with life and realised that although we moan about little things, we need to look at the picture on a larger scale and live every day like it’s our last.’

Katy Cunniffe