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Ian Wright's Everyday People

The Teenage Bionic Model

Ian Wright's Everyday People

Sony Music

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education, Mental Health, Society & Culture

4.8543 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Ian meets Tilly Lockey, a teenager testing the prosthetics of the future. Tilly, 15, lost both her hands as a baby after beating Meningitis. Frustrated by the prosthetics available to children, Tilly and her mum Sarah went on a journey to challenge this. At age 9, she became the first child in the UK to be fitted with a hero arm - a bionic prosthesis with life changing possibilities. Today she’s busy co-designing the prosthetics of the future, helping manufacturers to meet the changing needs of young people today. To find out more about the bionic Tilly, head here: @tilly.lockey @openbionics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Something else.

0:03.0

My guests this week are Sarah and Tilly Locky, a mother and daughter from County Durham who are testing the prosthetics of the future.

0:21.6

Just so proud, man. You couldn't be more proud of this girl.

0:24.5

Thanks, ma'am. Could ever be.

0:26.3

At nine, Tilly Locky became the first child in the UK to be fitted with a hero arm.

0:30.8

A bionic prosthesis with life-changing possibilities.

0:35.5

I can do a two hold like that, like a pinch.

0:39.3

A pinch like this, yeah?

0:40.3

Then if I press it again, I can do the even smaller, only one finger like that.

0:46.3

And then also a point.

0:48.3

Like so.

0:50.3

Now at the edge of 15, Tilly is busy supporting engineers to co-design the artificial limbs of the future,

0:56.0

for children and young people everywhere.

0:58.0

But the seeds of Tilly's incredible journey were planted more than a decade ago,

1:02.0

when she fought off a deadly strain of meningitis.

1:05.0

Tilly had been a healthy baby, but at 15 months, she was struck down suddenly by the virus.

1:11.6

I'm Ian Wright, and from something else, this is everyday people.

1:16.6

To begin, Tilly's mum Sarah is going to tell me the details that Tilly is just too young to remember.

1:23.6

A heads up that we start with a story that some listeners may find upset him.

1:33.2

My mom shouted me into the kitchen

1:36.4

and she went, sir, you've got to come say this.

1:38.3

And I went in and she had like bruise,

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