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The Big Build - Welwyn Garden City

DIY SOS Series 28

The team renovates Sascha's home to provide her with a dedicated dialysis room, meaning she will no longer have to endure intensive dialysis at hospital.

Kidney failure has meant that midwife Sascha has to endure intensive dialysis at hospital just to stay alive. This intense dialysis for hours on end, five days a week, places her body under immense stress with the constant threat of life-risking blood clots. If this continues, Sascha, a mother to four children, has a life expectancy of just a few years.

However, Sascha could do self-dialysis daily from her home, and the increase in frequency and the decrease in intensity would mean her life expectancy and lifestyle would improve dramatically. So that is where DIY SOS and the generous volunteers and trades of Billy's home turf, Welwyn Garden City, step up to help one of their own.

In an emotionally charged episode, Sascha's family home is completely renovated and extended to include a dedicated home-dialysis room for Sascha, which offers her a lifeline and extra years with her loving family.

59 minutes

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Thu 31 Oct 2019 20:00
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    Run Boy Run

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    Tom Baxter

    Miracle

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    Jon Hopkins

    Abandon Window

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    British Legion

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    Stand Up

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    You Talk

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    Rebecca Ferguson

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    Ellie Goulding

    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ

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    Rae Morris

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    Roads

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    Gary Barlow

    Let Me Go

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    Halcyon

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    Florence + The Machine

    How Big, How Blue

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    Rebecca Ferguson

    Bones

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    Downtown

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    Don't Mug Yourself

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    Slack

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    Elbow

    Weather To Fly

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    The Wanted

    Glad You Came

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    Run Boy Run

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    Hey Now

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    Hand On Heart

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    Rae Morris

    This Time

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Credits

Presenter Nick Knowles
Participant Mark Millar
Participant Billy Byrne
Participant Chris Frediani
Participant Julian Perryman
Participant Gabrielle Blackman
Director Steve Peet
Executive Producer Robi Dutta
Series Producer Hamish Summers

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