Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Libraries Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Jesy Nelson

πŸ‘€ Speaker
1031 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 1: Becoming a Mum & The Fight No Baby Should Face

So they got her treatment early enough and she walks.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 1: Becoming a Mum & The Fight No Baby Should Face

She does gymnastics.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 1: Becoming a Mum & The Fight No Baby Should Face

And you wouldn't even know she has SMA.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 1: Becoming a Mum & The Fight No Baby Should Face

And that's the difference.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 1: Becoming a Mum & The Fight No Baby Should Face

But the part that just really, like,

Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 1: Becoming a Mum & The Fight No Baby Should Face

breaks my heart is that it costs so much more than what the NHS are going to have to find out for all the stuff, the equipment, everything that then the child then has to have because they haven't had this treatment.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 1: Becoming a Mum & The Fight No Baby Should Face

Honestly, if I showed you the hallway of my house, every week, every two weeks, I get sent all their medical stuff that they need because the stuff I have to do on them every day is just... Yeah, it's like... And it's just like, who...

Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 1: Becoming a Mum & The Fight No Baby Should Face

Who gets to decide whether your child will walk or not?

Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 1: Becoming a Mum & The Fight No Baby Should Face

If they've just found out?

Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 1: Becoming a Mum & The Fight No Baby Should Face

Oh God, I don't even know.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 1: Becoming a Mum & The Fight No Baby Should Face

I'm still figuring it out myself.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 1: Becoming a Mum & The Fight No Baby Should Face

Just to take all the only bit of advice that I have, if you've just found out, is to just take each day as it comes.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 1: Becoming a Mum & The Fight No Baby Should Face

That's all you can do.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 1: Becoming a Mum & The Fight No Baby Should Face

And it's, you know, changed my life forever.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 1: Becoming a Mum & The Fight No Baby Should Face

But I am just still so grateful.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 1: Becoming a Mum & The Fight No Baby Should Face

to you know the fact that they had their treatment and they're still here because it's just so sad that there's been so many families that didn't get treatment and their children died and it's just that shouldn't be happening in this day and age when there is treatment that really fucking works and changes their life so dramatically and it fucks me off that it took for me

Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 1: Becoming a Mum & The Fight No Baby Should Face

with a platform for it to be taken seriously.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 1: Becoming a Mum & The Fight No Baby Should Face

These poor families have been fighting for years and years and years to get this changed and just been ignored.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 1: Becoming a Mum & The Fight No Baby Should Face

And then when I come along, because I have a few million followers, now you're going to take it seriously.

Great Company with Jamie Laing
JESY NELSON - PART 1: Becoming a Mum & The Fight No Baby Should Face

It's like, that shouldn't be the case.