{"id":488664,"date":"2025-10-10T15:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T15:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/488664\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T15:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T15:33:10","slug":"honour-for-cottingham-hospital-teen-cancer-supporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/488664\/","title":{"rendered":"Honour for Cottingham hospital teen cancer supporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Patients described Ms Kent as &#8220;the backbone of the service&#8221; and according to one mum, &#8220;my hero, who kept me positive through my darkest time&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her role includes co-ordinating appointments for patients to make sure they are supported with issues like hair loss or anxiety but also involves organising social events so they can meet others like them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She has also organised hospital-based graduation ceremonies for students too ill to attend their university ceremonies and has even helped patients fulfil bucket list activities as diverse as skydiving and milking a cow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Kent said: &#8220;A cancer diagnosis can be devastating at any age but for teenagers and young people who are just getting started in life, it can feel particularly cruel. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My job is to support them and help them understand what&#8217;s happening but also to remember that there&#8217;s a young person inside as well as a patient.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Kent was given the award at a ceremony on 19 September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patients described Ms Kent as &#8220;the backbone of the service&#8221; and according to one mum, &#8220;my hero, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-488664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115350602729788840","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}