00:02:00:00 GRAPHIC 1998 MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA Upsot … BABY CRYING
00:02:02:00 Out at 00:02:17:12 V/O IMAGINE A LIFE OF PAIN, MISERY, SHAME AND SUFFERING. THAT WAS BABY KRISTEN’S FUTURE. NOW IMAGINE A MAN OF VISION, A MEDICAL MAGICIAN. A PIONEER TO RESCUE YOUR BABY FROM HELL.
Upsot … WANER’S MUSIC
00:02:19:07 Out at 00:02:41:11 THIS IS THE STORY OF A YOUNG GIRL’S TRIUMPH OVER A RELENTLESS DEMON…. AFTER EIGHT YEARS OF BATTLING A MASSIVE TUMOUR – CALLED A HAEMANGIOMA – BABY KRISTEN IS REUNITING WITH HER HERO…DR MILTON WANER A SURGEON – SAVING HUNDREDS OF THE WORLD’S MOST VULNERABLE …..DESPERATE CHILDREN – WHO HAVE NO WHERE ELSE TO GO.
00:02:42:22 Out at 00:02:46:07 V/O AND THERES MUCH MORE TO THIS MEDIC THAN SCRUBS AND SCALPELS
Title at 00:03:55:12 Title out at 00:04:01:08 Music out at 00:04:07:13 OPENING TITLE: KRISTEN’S HERO Upsot WANER’S MUSIC
00:04:07:14 Out at 00:04:16:05 V/O ITS AN UNLIKELY PLACE TO FIND A WORLD CLASS SURGEON – BUT DR WANER IS JUST AS COMFORTABLE IN FRONT OF A MICROPHONE AS HE IS IN SURGICAL SCRUBS
Upsot … WANER SINGING
00:04:17:03 Out at 00:04:25:22 V/O HE’S NOT YOUR AVERAGE GUY… AND THAT’S HOW HE IS MAKING A DIFFERENCE. THIS SINGING SURGEON IS DEDICATING HIS LIFE – TO HELPING CHILDREN
Upsot WANER SINGING OR GUITAR
00:04:28:15 Out at 00:04:31:20 V/O KRISTEN IS LIVING PROOF OF DR WANER’S DETERMINATION.
Graphic in at 00:04:33:10 GRAPHIC ARKANSAS CHILDRENS’ HOSPITAL 1998 Upsot WANER MEETING KRISTEN
00:04:38:20 Out at 00:04:47.21 V/O WHEN THEY FIRST MET EIGHT YEARS AGO, KRISTEN’S SITUATION WAS BLEAK. THE TINY GIRL HAD A MASSIVE AND AGGRESSIVE TUMOUR CONSUMING AND DISTORTING HER FACE.
Upsot WANER
00:04:54:04 V/O DR WANER IDENTIFIED IT AS A HAEMANGIOMA AND IMMEDIATELY BEGAN TREATMENT.
Out at 00:05:30:06 V/O LIKE AN OUT OF CONTROL CANCER, THESE TUMOURS USUALLY HAVE NO OFF SWITCH. THEY HAVE THE POTENTIAL – AT THE WORST – TO KILL AND AT THE LEAST – TO GROSSLY DISFIGURE A CHILD, IN HIS OR HER MOST VULNERABLE YEARS ….WHEN THE DELICATE SENSES OF SELF IMAGE AND CONFIDENCE ARE CONCIEVED AND DEVELOPED. BABY KRISTEN – WAS LUCKY TO MEET DR WANER EIGHT YEARS AGO. HER TRANSFORMATION BEGAN THEN WITH THE FIRST SURGERY. NOW A YOUNG GIRL – KRISTEN IS ABOUT TO SLAY HER DEMON ONCE AND FOR ALL.
Graphic in at 00:05:31:17 GRAPHIC: SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT July 2006 Upsot PLANE TAKING OFF FROM SYDNEY
00:05:35:14 Out at 00:05:50:15 V/O SYDNEY AIRPORT IS THE STARTING POINT FOR A MARATHON JOURNEY. KRISTEN AND HER MOTHER MICHELLE EARNEY ARE HEADING TO NEW YORK. WHERE SHE’LL BE REUNITED WITH HER HERO FOR THE LAST TIME FOR HER FINAL ROUND OF TREATMENT.
00:05:53:11 Out at 00:06:03:16 Upsot MICHELLE E SEE YA AUSTRALIA I’M NOT SO STRESSED OUT THIS TIME, I’M NERVOUS ABOUT THE SURGERY BUT I’M SORT OF I’M TAKING A LOT MORE OF IT IN THAN I DID.
Upsot JFK ARRIVAL HALL
00:06:11:17 GRAPHIC JFK AIRPORT NEW YORK – 30 HOURS LATER
00:06:22:20 Out at 00:06:25:21 V/O THE EXHAUSTED PAIR ARRIVES IN NEW YORK FULL OF HOPE.
00:06:28:17 Out at 00:06:40:00 MICHELLE E 100% SO WHATTYA THINK? WE’RE HERE! MY FOOTS GONE TO SLEEP. YOUR FOOTS GONE TO SLEEP, MY EARS ARE BLOCKED, I CANT HEAR ANYTHING!
00:06:41:08 Out at 00:06:54:09 V/O MILLIONS OF PEOPLE HAVE TRAVELLED TO NEW YORK CITY IN SEARCH OF A NEW LIFE – IT’S A HUGE UNDERTAKING FOR KRISTEN AND MICHELLE BUT THEY WILL GO ANYWHERE TO SEE DR WANER AND FINALLY REALISE KRISTEN’S DREAM OF A NORMAL LIFE.
00:06:56:18 Out at 00:07:05:03 MICHELLE E AND KRISTEN 100% IT’S WEIRD ISNT IT? YES. THE STEERING WHEEL IS IN THE WRONG PLACE. SO WHATTYA WANNA DO? UM
00:07:07:06 Out at 00:07:12:16 V/O AS MANHATTAN LOOMS IN THE DISTANCE, EXCITEMENT OVERTAKES THE JETLAG FOR MICHELLE AND KRISTEN
00:07:18:20 Out at 00:07:31:10 MICHELLE E AND KRISTEN 100% MADISON AVENUE, I CAN’T BELIEVE I’M ON MADISON AVENUE. MACCAS! (laugh) TRUST YOU! WHAT? THERE. OH THE MAN WITH THE CIGAR IN HIS MOUTH?
UPSOT MUSIC
00:07:50:23 KRISTEN 100% ITS PRETTY AT NIGHT MICHELLE 100% IT IS, ISN’T IT. KRISTEN 100% YEAH MICHELLE 100% SO WHATTYA THINK? KRISTEN 100% IT’S REALLY GOOD. MICHELLE 100% IT’S REALLY GOOD. OH DADDY! TELL HIM WHERE WE ARE KRISTEN 100% WE’RE IN NEW YORK
KRISTEN 100% THERES LOTS OF BRIGHT LIGHTS AND ITS VERY PRETTY. I DON’T REALLY LIKE THE SMELL THOUGH.
00:08:32:00 Out at 00:08:39:13 Upsot MAN (OBSCENITY BLEEPED OUT) GET YOUR FUCKIN ASS WIPE… Upsot MICHELLE E OOOH AH, SOME PEOPLE ARE SAYING SOME VERY NAUGHTY WORDS (LAUGH)
00:08:41:04 Out at 00:08:55:17 V/O THEY ARE JUST TOO EXCITED TO REST YET. THE ENERGY OF TIME SQUARE TOO HARD TO RESIST AS THEY STRETCH THEIR LEGS ONE THING IS FOR SURE, MANHATTAN IS A LONG WAY FROM THEIR HOME – THE SMALL AUSTRALIAN COUNTRY TOWN OF BAIRNSDALE.
00:08:57:18 Out at 00:09:47:02 V/O KRISTEN’S PROBLEMS BEGAN AS A DAY-OLD INFANT. WHEN A TINY PURPLE SHADOW APPEARED ON HER FACE. WITHIN A WEEK, THE NIGHTMARE HAD BEGUN. THE SPOT RAPIDLY GREW INTO A MASSIVE, UGLY TUMOUR. IT BEGAN TO ENGULF HER BEAUTIFUL FACE, ERASING HER OTHERWISE NORMAL FEATURES. BY THREE MONTHS, KRISTEN WAS UNRECOGNISABLE AND IN A GREAT DEAL OF PAIN. SHE WAS STRUGGLING TO BREATHE AND WAS LOSING SIGHT IN ONE EYE. DOCTORS TOLD MICHELLE AND HER HUSBAND LEIGH EARNEY TO TAKE THEIR BABY HOME, THAT THERE WAS NOTHING TO BE DONE. BUT MICHELLE’S CRIES FOR HELP THROUGH THE MEDIA LED HER TO DOCTOR MILTON WANER. HE RESCUED KRISTEN, GUIDING HER ON A LONG AND PAINFUL JOURNEY TO CONQUER THE GROWTH. BUT HE STILL BELIEVES THERE IS MORE THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE.
00:09:53:03 Out at 00:09:55:07 MICHELLE THERE YOU GO TOURIST TAKE CARE MICHELLE THANKS VERY MUCH
00:09:56:07 V/O NOW, EVEN AFTER YEARS OF SUCCESSFUL SURGICAL PROCEDURES, KRISTEN’S APPEARANCE STILL ATTRACTS UNWANTED ATTENTION WHEN SHE VENTURES OUT IN PUBLIC.
Out at 00:10:12:12 ITS SOMETHING SHE HAS GROWN USED TO BUT IT STILL HURTS. KRISTEN IS READY TO MEET WITH DR WANER ONE LAST TIME.
00:10:12:12 Out at 00:10:45:16 MICHELLE E 100% I KNOW WHERE WE ARE NOW. I’VE BEEN HERE BEFORE. WHERE IS IT? KRISTEN 100% WHERE IS IT? MICHELLE 100% SHE JUST WANTS TO SAY HELLO TO A NEW YORK CITY COP. WE’RE FROM AUSTRALIA. COP 100% VERY NICE! HOW YOU DOIN? MICHELLE 100% GOOD. COP 100% HAVING FUN I HOPE? MICHELLE 100% YES. SO YOU HAPPY? WHATS THIS ONE? COP 100% THIS IS A BASEBALL TEAM. MICHELLE 100% OH, FOLLOW YOUR DREAM. OH OKAY. IVE GOT ONE FOR MY FOOTBALL TEAM AT HOME. COP 100% THERE YOU GO. THOUGH FOOTBALL IS REAL FOOTBALL THERE. MICHELLE 100% YEAH. WE DON’T HAVE PADDING AND HELMETS
00:10:46:15 Out at 00:10:51:02 V/O YOU CAN GET ALMOST ANYTHING IN NEW YORK – AS KRISTEN IS ABOUT TO DISCOVER.
00:10:52:05 Out at 00:10:55:03 KRISTEN 100% A REALLY BIG CITY. MICHELLE 100% REALLY BIG.
00:11:02:02 GRAPHIC: BETH ISRAEL HOSPITAL NEW YORK CITY Upsot CITY
00:11:08:00 Out at 00:11:28:00 V/O THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN ACROSS THE GLOBE ARE SUFFERING FROM HAEMANGIOMAS. UNTIL THEY FIND DR WANER. UNLIKE KRISTEN, 5 YEAR OLD POLISH GIRL ALA WASOWSKA HAS NEVER HAD ANY TREATMENT. TODAY THE TWO GIRLS WILL MEET FOR THE FIRST TIME. IT’S KRISTEN’S TURN TO PROVIDE SOME MUCH NEEDED REASSURANCE AND SUPPORT
00:11:28:18 MICHELLE E TO ALA 100% HELLO. HELLO BEAUTIFUL, HOW ARE YOU?
00:11:32:18 Out at 00:11:36:17 V/O KRISTEN SEES IN ALA, HOW HER LIFE COULD HAVE BEEN.
00:11:37:07 MICHELLE E 100% DON’T BE SCARED. SHE WILL BE FINE. YOU WILL HAVE NOTHING TO BE SCARED ABOUT.
Out at 00:12:09:20 KRISTEN AND MICHELLE E 100% I’VE DONE THIS BEFORE. AND HOW DID IT FEEL, CAN YOU REMEMBER ANY PAIN? NO. CAN YOU REMEMBER ANY BAD THINGS? NO. AND WHATS DOCTOR WANER LIKE? GOOD. HE’S NICE. HE’S NICE.
00:12:19:22 Out at 00:12:27:16 MICHELLE E 100% OKAY. YOU READY TO GO UP? YOU EXCITED? YEAH! GET ALL THIS FINISHED EH?
00:12:32:06 Out at 00:12:36:19 V/O THESE FAMILIES HAVE CROSSED OCEANS FOR THE HELP OF AN EXTRAORDINARY DOCTOR.
00:12:40:07 Out at 00:13:04:06 WANER 100% HI KRISTEN, HI. GOOD TO SEE YOU. MICHELLE 100% SHE’S DYING TO SEE YOU. WANER 100% GOOD TO SEE YOU. HI GUYS. MICHELLE 100% I GOTTA HUG YOU. WANER 100% ALL RIGHT. LONG TIME NO SEE. MICHELLE 100% YES. YOU LOOK GREAT. WANER 100% THANK YOU. MICHELLE 100% YOU DON’T LOOK ANY DIFFERENT. WANER 100% BOY, LOOK AT YOU. YOU’RE A BIG GIRL NOW HUH? MY GOSH. MICHELLE 100% HOW WELL HAS SHE IMPROVED? WANER 100% SHE’S UNBELIEVABLE, SHE REALLY IS.
00:13:08:02 Out at 00:13:24:01 WANER 100% HI EVERYTHING OK? LITTLE NERVOUS. YOU KNOW. DON’T WORRY. TELL HER PLEASE NOT TO WORRY. TRANSLATOR IT’S EASY TO SAY. WANER OH I KNOW. I KNOW.
00:13:24.19 Out at 00:13:37:20 Upsot POLISH TO INTERPRETER 100% THEY’RE SCARED ABOUT THIS OPERATION BUT THEY FEEL NERVOUS, SCARED BUT THEY HOPE THIS OPERATION WILL BRING THE RESULTS. THEY DON’T EXPECT HER TO LOOK AMAZING YOU KNOW BUT AT LEAST LOOKING NORMAL ENOUGH.
00:13:38:11 Out at 00:13:51:05 V/O POLISH DOCTORS TOLD ALA’S PARENTS TO WAIT AND SEE – THAT THERE WAS NO ANSWER. ….WORDS THAT WERE ALL TOO FAMILIAR TO MICHELLE EARNEY. UNLIKE ALA’S RENDITION OF THIS POLISH LULLABY
Upsot ALA SINGING
00:14:05:22 Out at 00:14:10:19 Upsot INTERPRETER THE FEELING THAT THEY JUST CAN’T DO ANYTHING WAS JUST KILLING - KILLING HER - AS A MOTHER.
ALA SINGING EVA 100% IT’S A LONG ONE!
00:14:41:03 V/O ALA IS PREPARING FOR LIFE-CHANGING SURGERY
00:14:48:05 Out at 00:15:00:05 Upsot WANER ALL YOU WANT IS FOR HER TO BE SO NORMAL THAT IF SHE GOES INTO THE PLAYGROUND, NOBODY WILL NOTICE HER, NOBODY WILL SAY ANYTHING –IN OTHER WORDS, SHES GOTTA LOOK NORMAL AND THAT’S OUR OBJECTIVE.
00:15:01:00 INTERPRETER 100% WELL PEOPLE ARE USUALLY VERY CURIOUS ABOUT HER LOOK, THE WAY HOW SHE LOOKS IT DIDN’T HAPPEN ALL THE TIME BUT SOMETIMES THE MOTHERS WHO WERE PREGNANT DIDN’T WANT TO LOOK AT ALA BECAUSE THEY WERE SCARED THAT THEIR CHILD MAY LOOK THE SAME.
Out at 00:15:24:23 IN POLAND PEOPLE WERE JUST SAYING, YOU JUST NEED TO WAIT BUT NOBODY COULD SAY, HOW LONG IT WOULD TAKE.
00:15:29:08 KRISTEN 100% A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE ASKING ME, WHEN ARE YOU GOING – WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR FACE. ITS JUST SO ANNOYING.
TEASING ME ABOUT MY FACE. SHOVING BROKEN SHOVELS INTO MY HAND. WHAT WERE THEY SAYING? YOU LOOK UGLY AND STUFF. THAT’S MEAN! WHAT DID YOU SAY TO THEM? I JUST WALKED AWAY.
Out at 00:16:13:21 IT’S OKAY. I’VE GONE THROUGH THIS BEFORE AND MUM DIDN’T REALLY STRESS.
00:16:17:21 V/O THE PHYSICAL PAIN THESE CHILDREN FACE IS MATCHED ONLY BY THE EMOTIONAL TOLL THE CONDITION AND ITS TREATMENT TAKES ON PARENTS.
00:16:26:14 Out at 00:16:38:04 INTERPRETER EVERYBODY WERE WONDERING WHEN WILL YOUR HUSBAND LEAVE YOU – JUST HOW YOUR MARRIAGE WILL GO THROUGH THAT? THEY WERE CONCERNED THAT ROBERT MIGHT LEAVE AT ONE POINT OF THAT.
00:16:52:15 WANER 100% OKAY SO WE’RE GONNA TAKE THE CHILD IN AND WE’LL PLACE HER UNDER ANAESTHETIC AND TELL MUM NOT TO WORRY. SOMETIMES WHEN SHE GOES TO SLEEP THEY STRUGGLE AND THEY FIGHT BUT THERES NO DISCOMFORT. OKAY?
Out at 00:17:28:05 WANER 100% ALL RIGHT TELL MUM SHE CAN KISS HER SHE’S FINE. TALK TO HER AND TELL HER NOT TO WORRY OKAY?
00:17:28:21 MICHELLE E 100% TELL HER THIS WILL GET - IT ALL GETS BETTER FROM HERE, SHE’LL BE FINE.
00:17:34:10 V/O DR WANER WILL OPERATE FIRST ON ALA, THEN KRISTEN – BEFORE HE TACKLES A NUMBER OF OTHER HAEMANGIOMA CASES – ITS A TYPICAL DAY OF SURGERY FOR HIM.
00:17:51:15 V/O DR WANER WILL TAKE HIS TIME REMOVING THE ENORMOUS TUMOUR AND CAREFULLY RECONSTRUCTING ALA’S TINY FACE.
00:17:58:22 WANER 100% THE HAEMANGIOMA HAS OBVIOUSLY DISTENDED EVERYTHING, AND SO WE HAVE A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF EXCESS SKIN.
Out at 00:18:27:15 WANER 100% IT’S VERY THIN AND ATROPHIC AND REALLY NOT THE KIND OF SKIN I WOULD LIKE TO KEEP. SO, WHAT WE’RE ABLE TO DO - IS I NEED TO MOVE HER NOSE OVER INTO THE CORRECT POSITION AND YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE HAEMANGIOMA ACTUALLY STICKING THROUGH THE SKIN INTO THE NASAL CAVITY.
00:18:30:23 Out at 00:18:44:16 GRAPHIC: HAEMANGIOMA: ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; A TANGLE OF ABNORMAL VESSELS THAT FORMS AN ABNORMAL COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE ARTERIAL AND VENOUS SYSTEMS
00:18:44:18 WANER 100% THE OTHER THING I NEED TO DO, IS I NEED TO BRING HER LIP UP AND THE CORNER OF HER MOUTH UP INTO A REASONABLE POSITION. AND AT THE SAME TIME, I’VE GOTTA TAKE ALL OF THAT SKIN AND MOVE IT OVER. AND I’VE DETERMINED THAT I HAVE SUFFICIENT SKIN TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT.
IT’S A VERY LARGE HAEMANGIOMA BUT WE SEE HAEMANGIOMAS LIKE THIS FROM TIME TO TIME. IT’S VERY LARGE AND DISFIGURING.
KRISTEN HAD WHAT WE CALL A SEGMENTAL HAEMANGIOMA. SEGMENTAL HAEMANGIOMAS ARE A LOT MORE DESTRUCTIVE, THEY CAUSE A LOT OF LOCAL TISSUE DESTRUCTION AND THEY ARE VERY AGGRESSIVE. THIS CHILD HAS A FOCAL HAMEMANGIOMA.
ITS DISPLACED AND DISFIGURED EVERYTHING BUT ITS NOT DESTROYED SO I’M GONNA FIND NORMAL STRUCTURES HERE. THIS IS BEING VERY BOLD BECAUSE THAT’S TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF SKIN WE’RE LOSING BUT I BELIEVE WE CAN DO IT.
IF YOU CUT INTO IT, WHICH I AM GOING TO DO FROM TIME TO TIME, YOU’LL SEE A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF BLEEDING. THIS CHILD ONLY HAS ONE POINT TWO LITRES TOTAL AND SO IF I LOSE 3-400 ML THAT’S A VERY SUBSTANTIAL BLOOD LOSS FOR THIS CHILD. FOR YOU OR MYSELF THAT WOULDN’T BE A PROBLEM AT ALL. SO IT’S A BLOOD FILLED TUMOUR.
Out at 00:20:17:00 WELL I’M NOT GONNA LOSE THAT MUCH BLOOD, I’M GONNA BE VERY CAREFUL. WE’VE DEVELOPED TECHNIQUES.
00:20:20:05 NURSE 100% ALL RIGHT SWEETIE. CHUG A LUG IT, CHUG A LUG IT. THAT’S IT. WHAT A GOOD GIRL.
00:20:24:15 KRISTEN 100% I’M EXCITED ABOUT THE OPERATION. PRODUCER ARE YOU? HOW LONG YOU BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE? KRISTEN A LONG TIME.
Out at 00:20:48:13 HE’S REALLY NICE AND HELPFUL. MY NOSE, MY MOUTH, MY EYE AND THIS PART OF MY FACE IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE THAT PART. PRODUCER SO IT WILL MATCH.
00:20:55:10 Out at 00:21:08:17 V/O ITS HARD TO BELIEVE KRISTEN ENDURED MULTIPLE SURGERIES, FAR MORE INTENSIVE THAN YOUNG ALA. BUT JUST FIVE HOURS ON THE OPERATING TABLE ENDS FIVE YEARS OF PAIN AND SEVERE PSYCHOLOGICAL TORMENT FOR THIS BRAVE POLISH GIRL.
00:21:09:10 JANNA 100% SHOULD WE DO THE WANER DANCE NOW? HUH? WANER NO, SO THIS IS IT. SO EVERYTHING IS NOW FREE.
IT WAS VERY DEEP. BUT NOT DEEPER THAN I THOUGHT. IT DID WHAT THEY ALL DO. PRODUCER WHICH IS? WANER GOES VERY DEEP ALL THE WAY UP TO THE BONE.
Out at 00:21:34:10 SHE’LL LOOK VERY GOOD. YOU’LL SEE WHEN THE LAST STITCH IS IN. YOU’LL SEE.
00:21:36:01 V/O IT SEEMS CRAZY ALA HAD TO WAIT FIVE YEARS.
00:21:40:03 WANER 100% ITS UNFORTUNATE BUT I GUESS AT LEAST THEY GOT HERE. AND AH THAT’S THE ONLY CONSOLATION NOW.
00:21:50:23 Out at 00:22:04:11 V/O DOWN THE HALL, KRISTEN CONTINUES HER PREPARATION. Upsot KRISTEN TALKING DRUNKENLY TO MINICAM V/O SHE IS NEXT AND HOPEFULLY, AFTER EIGHT YEARS OF TREATMENT, THIS WILL BE HER LAST MAJOR SURGERY.
Upsot ALA PLACED ON GURNEY, CRYING.
Upsot EVA RUNS INTO POST OP
EVA 100% MUMMY’S HERE. (POLISH) Upsot ALA THRASHING
00:22:23:19 Out at 00:22:37:00 V/O ALA IS IN PAIN BUT THE WORST IS OVER. NOW THE HEALING BEGINS – DR WANER HAS GIVEN HER THE BEST POSSIBLE CHANCE AT A NORMAL LIFE. ITS SOMETHING KRISTEN – A SURGICAL VETERAN – HAS ALWAYS WANTED.
00:22:47:08 Out at 00:22:59:20 MICHELLE E 100% ITS ALLRIGHT MUMMY IS RIGHT HERE. I TOLD YOU I’D BE HERE. I’LL BE HERE WHEN YOU GO TO SLEEP AND I’LL BE HERE WHEN YOU WAKE UP, YOU’RE A GOOD GIRL.
00:23:00:20 Out at 00:23:12.20 ANAETHETIST 100% IF YOU WANNA GO GRAB YOURSELF A CUP OF COFFEE OR LUNCH AND THEN I’LL SEE YOU LATER. MICHELLE E YES I MIGHT DO THAT. TAKE GOOD CARE OF MY BABY. ANAETHETIST PROMISE. PROMISE.
00:23:17:13 Out at 00:23:38:15 WANER 100% OKAY KRISTEN LETS FIX IT UP. FIRST THING WE’RE GOING TO DO IS WE’RE GONNA FIX UP HER NOSE. SEE HOW SHE’S GOT THIS BULBOUS NOSE? THE NASAL TIP? SO I’M GOING TO FIX HER NASAL TIP.
Upsot QUESTION ABOUT COSMETIC TWEAKING
00:23:43:21 WANER 100% SURE, JUST FINISHING TOUCHES TO GET HER A LOT MORE NORMAL. SHE’S GOT A LOT OF SCARRING AND I’M JUST TRYING TO SEE WHAT I CAN DO HERE.
00:23:58:06 Out at 00:24:16:20 V/O DR WANER WANTS ALL HIS YOUNG PATIENTS TO EXPERIENCE WHAT IT IS TO BE NORMAL. BORN TO CONSERVATIVE JEWISH PARENTS IN A SMALL SOUTH AFRICAN GOLD MINING TOWN IN 1953, HE ENDURED THE PAIN OF ANTI-SEMITISM AS A CHILD. IT’S MADE HIM SENSITIVE TO CHILDREN WHO JUST DON’T FIT IN.
00:24:18:16 Out at 00:24:30:15 00:24:32:06 PRODUCER SHE TOLD ME SHE WAS REALLY EXCITED BECAUSE THE CHILDREN AT SCHOOL CALLED HER UGLY. WANER 100% OH REALLY? PRODUCER SHE HAS BEEN QUITE BADLY BULLIED. DO YOU SEE THAT A LOT WITH YOUR PATIENTS? WANER 100% YEAH, UNFORTUNATELY YEAH YOU DO. WANER 100% HER LIP LINE AT THE MOMENT IS VERY MOTH EATEN, ITS VERY IRREGULAR FROM THE ULCERATION SO I’M GONNA CORRECT THAT.
00:24:41:00 Out at 00:24:45:21 V/O DR WANER’S GROUNDBREAKING SUCCESS WITH KRISTEN HAS GENERATED MORE WORK FOR HIM.
00:24:49:13 Out at 00:24:59:17 LYNN 100% ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL. WE COULDN’T ASK FOR A BETTER DOCTOR, I’M NOT NERVOUS ABOUT HER SURGERY AT ALL AND SHE’S NOT EITHER THAT’S RIGHT.
00:24:59:23 00:25:05:20 V/O BUT MUCH MORE NEEDS TO BE DONE TO GET THE MESSAGE OUT TO THOUSANDS OF FRUSTRATED PARENTS AROUND THE WORLD. LYNN 100% SO FAR SO GOOD. I MEAN, WE WISH THAT WE WOULD HAVE KNOWN MORE EARLIER. BUT WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE A GOOD DOCTOR NOW AND YOU KNOW THEY’VE HAD A LOT WORSE THAN WE HAVE. CAITLIN’S IS NOT HOPEFULLY AS DIFFICULT AS THE OTHERS.
Out at 00:25:35:11 LYNN 100% WE WISH WE COULD GET THE MESSAGE OUT TO OTHER PEOPLE AND I DON’T KNOW HOW TO GO ABOUT DOING THAT. I’M SURPRISED THAT EVERYBODY DOESN’T KNOW ABOUT PHYSICIANS LIKE DR WANER.
00:25:36:06 Out at 00:25:42:19 V/0 UNLIKE ALA’S PARENTS, THE KUEHL FAMILY HAD NOT YET RETREATED FROM EVERYDAY EXCURSIONS OUTSIDE THE FAMILY HOME.
00:25:43:19 DAD 100% ITS JUST BEEN A STRESSFUL EXPERIENCE ANYTIME YOU GO OUT BASICALLY ANYWHERE IN PUBLIC – BASICALLY PEOPLE JUST LOOK AND STARE.
00:25:50:22 Out at 00:26:08:19 LYNN 100% WE’VE HAD A WAITER TAKE A PICTURE OF HER IN A RESTAURANT WITH HIS PHONE, WITH HIS CAMERA PHONE JUST COME UP AND TAKE A PICUTRE OF HER. I’VE HAD PEOPLE COME UP AND ACTUALLY GRAB IT. SO BUT I MEAN YOU KNOW YOU DEAL WITH IT AND YOU GO ON.
00:26:09:04 V/O BUT THAT’S SOMETHING GEOFF RITCHIE HASN’T BEEN ABLE TO DO – NOT YET.
Out at 00:26:35:10 THE PROBLEMS BEGAN FOR GEOFF WITH A VASCULAR ANOMALY CALLED A PORT WINE STAIN – IT’S NOT A HAEMANGIOMA, IT’S AN ENLARGEMENT OF THE BLOOD VESSELS ON HIS FACE. BUT TIMING IS EVERYTHING. HAD GEOFF BEEN BORN OF THIS GENERATION, DR WANER COULD HAVE PROBABLY ARRESTED THE PROBLEM VERY EARLY, WITH LASER TREATMENT. BUT GEOFF IS HOPEFUL DR WANER CAN HELP HIM.
00:26:35:18 GEOFF RITCHIE 100% I AM CERTAINLY HOPEFUL BUT I’M GUESSING HE MIGHT DO SOME MORE ZAPPING WITH THE LASER AND LIGHTEN IT A BIT BUT WE’LL SEE WHAT HE SAYS.
00:26:54:05 BILL RITCHIE 100% YOU KNOW WHEN I TALKED TO HIM, HE SAID ABSOLUTELY I CAN HELP YOUR SON, NOT EVEN A QUESTION ABOUT IT.
SEVERAL THINGS ABOUT DR WANER – FIRST OF ALL HIS TECHNIQUE AND HIS WILLINGNESS TO GO WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD IS SIGNIFICANT. THE OTHER SIGNIFICAN THING ABOUT THAT HOWEVER THAT IS MOST UNUSUAL IS HE HAS TO BE ONE OF THE MOST POSITIVE PEOPLE YOU WILL MEET ON THE PLANET. WHEN HE SAYS I CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS, WHAT HE MEANS IS I CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS, I WILL DO SOMETHING. HE’S NOT SUPERMAN AND YOU KNOW YOU CANT CHANGE SOMETHING OVER NIGHT AND MAKE IT PERFECT BUT IN THE END WHAT IS PERFECT? I MEAN YOU DO THE BEST YOU CAN AND THAT’S HIS MOTTO – IS THAT EVERY CHILD HAS THE RIGHT TO LOOK NORMAL AND SO HE IS, HE IS COMMITTED TO THAT WITH A VENGEANCE.
Out at 00:27:47:20 DON’T LISTEN TO PEOPLE WHO SAY THERE IS NO HOPE BECAUSE THERE IS.
00:27:50:05 Out at 00:28:15:03 WANER 100% JUST GO TO PLAYLIST NUMBER ONE. JANNA 100% WE DID NUMBER ONE ALREADY. DO NUMBER TWO. WANER NO NUMBER TWO IS MY SEXY MUSIC. GO TO NUMBER THREE. JANNA YOUR SEXY MUSIC? WE GOTTA HEAR THIS NOW. WANER ITS MY EUROPEAN TECHNO MUSIC. PRODUCER YOU DO NOT LISTEN TO TECHNO! WANER YES I DO. WHATS WRONG WITH THAT?
00:28:15:08 V/O AFTER A SURPRISING DISCOVERY – AND REMOVAL - OF SOME MORE HAEMANGIOMA LURKING IN KRISTEN’S NOSE – DR WANER IS SATISFIED.
00:28:24:22 WANER 100% NOW THIS IS THE PERFECT NOSE. SHE’S GOT A NICE SLOPE, SHE’S GOT A GOOD SHAPE, HER PROFILE IS PERFECT.
Out at 00:28:51:02 SHE’S GOT A PERFECT PROFILE, SHE’S GOT A NICE LITTLE TIP, A STRAIGHT PROFILE AND THESE INCISIONS WILL HEAL VERY NICELY, YOU WONT SEE THEM. PRODUCER SO SHE COULDN’T HAVE DONE ANY BETTER IF SHE WENT TO HOLLYWOOD? WANER I HOPE SO. SHE LOOKS QUITE GOOD.
00:28:51:08 WANER 100% PERFECTION IS THE ENEMY OF CURE AND WE CAN GET THEM LOOKING VERY, VERY GOOD.
Out at 00:29:08:17 OBVIOUSLY YOU CAN KEEP GOING BACK MORE AND MORE AND MORE AND ONE WONDERS WHERE THE END POINT IS BUT YOU HAVE TO DRAW THE LINE SOMEWHERE, OTHERWISE YOU’LL KEEP OPERATING.
00:29:17:01 WANER 100% HI ALL DONE. MICHELLE E 100% HOW DID SHE GO? WANER 100% SHE’S GOT A CUTE LITTLE NOSE. WE FIXED HER LIP UP NICELY AND WORKED ON THE UPPER AND THE LOWER LIP AND SHE’S GONNA HAVE A MUCH NEATER LOWER LIP WE GOT SOME RID OF SOME OF THE SCARRING AND WE’VE A NICE NEAT NORMAL LOOKING LIP SO SHE SHOULD DO FINE.
Out at 00:29:45:05 WANER 100% SO THAT’S IT. SIT TIGHT AND RELAX AND I THINK WE ARE GOING TO SEE HER SHORTLY. WE’RE GONNA SEE HER VERY SHORTLY.
00:29:48:17 MICHELLE E THERES MY BABY
OH LOOK. SHE LOOKS GREAT. I CAN SEE HER MOUTH.
Out at 00:30:21:00 SHES GOT A BRAND NEW MOUTH AND THERE WAS STILL SOME HAEMANGIOMA LEFT IN THE TIP OF HER NOSE AND HE’S THINNED OUT THAT BIT IN BETWEEN HER NOSTRILS. OH YOU SHOULD SEE HER MOUTH. ITS PERFECT.
00:30:31:11 Out at 00:30:44:02 V/O IN THE CITY THAT SUPPOSEDLY NEVER SLEEPS, DR WANER MANAGES A FEW HOURS OF REST EACH NIGHT BEFORE HE HITS THE STREETS OF MANHATTAN AT DAWN. JOGGING – IS THE ANTIDOTE TO AN EXTREMELY STRESSFUL WORKLOAD.
00:30:44:19 Out at 00:31:08:16 WANER YOU KNOW THE PRESSURE IS TREMENDOUS. MY BIGGEST CONCERN IS THAT I CANT SPEAK TO ALL THE PATIENTS AND THAT SO MANY PARENTS CALL AND CALL AND CALL AND ARE UNABLE TO REACH ME. MY SCHEDULE IS SO FULL I DON’T THINK I COULD SQUEEZE ANOTHER MINUTE IN AND MY ABILITY TO GET BACK TO PATIENTS IS VERY DIFFICULT.
00:31:10:16 Out at 00:31:23:21 V/O A TRUE PIONEER, DR WANER DOES WHAT NO OTHER DOCTOR WILL DO – INTERVENING EARLY AND WITH AN AGGRESSIVE PLAN OF MANAGEMENT. PLAGUED FOR A LONG TIME BY THE MEDICAL SCEPTICS, THE CRITICISM IS BEGINNING TO EVAPORATE.
00:31:24:18 Out at 00:31:34:22 WANER 100% WHEN YOU BELIEVE IN WHAT YOU’RE DOING, I THINK IT’S A LOT EASIER AND IT’S A LOT EASIER TO TAKE RISKS BUT THE RISKS I’M TAKING ARE VERY ARE VERY SMALL.
00:31:38:00 Out at 00:31:54:06 V/O DR WANER TURNS VERY FEW CHILDREN AWAY AND HE HAS LOST JUST ONE PATIENT TO A HAEMANGIOMA.
00:31:54:10 Out at 00:32:15:07 WANER 100% WE FACE THAT FROM TIME TO TIME BECAUSE SOME OF THESE CHILDREN ARE VERY VERY VERY ILL. THEY’RE IN CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE AND THEIR BLOOD PLATELET LEVEL IS DOWN TO A POINT WHERE THEY CONTINUOUSLY HAEMORRAGE SO THERE ARE POTENTIAL RISKS AND COMPLICATIONS. YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT SOME OF THESE KIDS ARE VERY, VERY SICK.
00:32:18:08 Out at 00:32:32:18 V/O THE MANY TRIBUTES THAT COVER HIS CLINIC WALLS – ARE PROOF OF THE ATTACHMENT THAT DEVELOPS BETWEEN SURGEON AND PATIENTS - AND THEIR TRUSTING PARENTS. THEY’VE LABELLED HIM A HERO, AN ANGEL, A MAGICIAN – KRISTEN CALLS HIM UNCLE MILTIE.
00:33:09:06 Out at 00:33:47:10 WANER 100% THE ATTACHMENT WILL NEVER END. SOMEWHERE DOWN IN MY HEART THERE’S ALWAYS A LITTLE PLACE FOR KRISTEN. SHE’S COME A LONG WAY AND THAT’S GRATIFYING. KRISTEN WAS IN A LOT OF TROUBLE WHEN I SAW HER. IN FACT I WASN’T 100 PER CENT THAT I’D BE ABLE TO DO A LOT FOR HER BUT WE TRIED AND WE SUCCEEDED. AND I THINK THAT WHAT SHE IS NOW IS A TESTAMENT TO THAT BUT ONE NEVER LOSES THE ATTACHMENT AND I REALLY ENJOY THAT AND I ENJOY BEING PART OF SO MANY FAMILIES AND I LOOK FORWARDS TO A LOT OF WEDDING INVITATIONS WHEN I’M AN OLD MAN!
00:33:48:20 Out at 00:34:01:05 V/O BECAUSE HAEMANGIOMAS RARELY KILL – GOVERNMENT FUNDING IS LIMITED. THERE IS NO CURE YET AND DR WANER IS WORKING WITH A TEAM AT THE NEVADA CANCER INSTITUTE TO ESTABLISH A MODEL TO TEST A DRUG SOLUTION.
00:34:02:11 Out at 00:34:26:15 WANER 100% THESE ARE VERY DIFFICULT TUMOURS TO MIMIC BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY CELLS THAT ARE ACTIVE. THIS IS NOT JUST A TUMOUR OF ONE CELL AND THE INTERACTION BETWEEN THE CELLS IS VERY IMPORTANT. AND SO IT’S BEEN VERY DIFFICULT TO DEVELOP A MODEL BUT WE SEEM TO BE ON THE VERGE OF A BREAKTHROUGH. AND SO I THINK A DRUG CURE IS STILL A LONG WAY OFF BUT HOPEFULLY NOT TOO LONG.
00:34:27:10 V/O UNTIL THEN, DR WANER WILL CONTINUE TO WORK WITH A HEALTHY DOSE OF SELF-DOUBT.
00:34:32:17 WANER 100% ONE HAS TO QUESTION ONES ACTIONS. AND ONE HAS TO QUESTION ONE’S SELF CONSTANTLY. AND I LIKE TO THINK ABOUT THE CASES THAT ARE COMING UP. BECAUSE I’M NOT SURE WHAT I’M GOING TO DO, AND I’D HATE TO BE IN THE SITUATION WHERE I DIDN’T KNOW WHAT TO DO AND SO I’M CONSTANTLY HAVING FALL BACK PLANS.
Out at 00:35:08:06 AND SO WHEN I LIE AWAKE AT NIGHT I OBVIOUSLY THINK ABOUT THE CASES COMING YOU KNOW I THINK ABOUT OTHER THINGS AS WELL. MY MIND’S NOT JUST ONE-TRACK MEDICINE.
00:35:10:20 GRAPHIC SONY MUSIC STUDIOS MID TOWN MANHATTAN Upsot WANER ON GUITAR
00:35:23:20 Out at 00:35:28:17 STEVEN 100% HEY MILTON, MAKE SURE ON THE INTRO WHEN YOU FIRST COME IN JUST MAKE SURE YOU DON’T RUSH, OKAY?
00:35:50:19 Out at 00:36:04:01 WANER 100% SHOULD WE DO IT ONE MORE TIME? I’M NOT GOING TO PLAY THE FIRST VERSE OF THE – I’M JUST GONNA, I’M JUST GONNA LIGHTLY STRUM THE FIRST VERSE OF THE BRIDGE OKAY?
00:36:05:01 Out at 00:36:15:22 V/O ITS REASSURING TO KNOW THERES MORE TO DR WANER THAN MEDICINE. HIS PASSION FOR MUSIC HAS LED HIM TO SONY MUSIC STUDIOS – WHERE INCREDIBLY - HE IS FINDING TIME TO RECORD AN ALBUM.
00:36:17:21 Out at 00:36:53:22 STEVEN THE VERY FIRST TIME I WASN’T QUITE SURE WHAT TO SAY TO HIM POLITELY BECAUSE I JUST DIDN’T KNOW IF I COULD BE HONEST WITH HIM OR NOT ABOUT MY BRUTAL CRITICISM OF IT. THERE WAS JUST A TONNE OF THINGS WRONG WITH IT AND I WASN’T SURE IF I WAS ACTUALLY GONNA WANNA DO IT OR NOT AND I WAS KINDA JUST BLINDLY GOING INTO IT THINKING I’LL MEET WITH HIM AND SEE WHAT HE IS LIKE IN PERSON BUT I HAD NO IDEA WHAT TO COMPARE IT TO, THE ONLY THING I CAN SAY IS IT SOUNDS ADULT CONTEMPORARY WHICH IS YOU KNOW PROBABLY ONE OF THE WORST THINGS YOU CAN MAYBE SAY TO A MUSICIAN (LAUGHTER)
00:37:03:08 Out at 00:37:23:10 STEVEN (OVERLAID WITH WANER) AND IT REALLY WENT FROM ONE EXTREME, OF JUST THINKING IT WAS ONE OF THE, ONE OF MY LEAST FAVOURITE THINGS I’VE EVER HEARD, YOU KNOW IT WAS ALMOST, I DON’T WANNA SAY IT WAS EMBARRASSING, BUT THE RECORDING IS SORT OF EMBARRASSING AND NOW ITS TURNED INTO SOMETHING JUST TOTALLY OPPOSITE – I’M JUST OVER THE MOON ABOUT HOW MUCH ITS CHANGED.
00:37:23:17 PRODUCER SO IS HE ANY GOOD?
Out at 00:37:34:10 STEVEN 100% YES HE HAS, YEAH HE IS VERY GOOD. HE HAS THIS RAW EMOTION OF HIM SINGING AND PLAYING GUITAR
00:37:34:15 Out at 00:38:00:10 WANER 100% TO BE HONEST, THIS IS WHAT I PREFER TO DO. NO ONLY KIDDING. ITS QUITE EASY, THE TRANSITION IS NOT MUCH, NOT MUCH OF A DIFFICULTY AT ALL. RIGHT NOW WE ARE GOING ALONG FOR THE RIDE, WE ARE MAKING MUSIC, WE HOPE TO MAKE AN ALBUM. AND WE’LL SEE WHERE IT GOES. I’M NOT SURE I DON’T REALLY HAVE ANY GAME PLAN. BECAUSE I DO HAVE A DAY JOB THAT TAKES UP MOST OF MY TIME.
00:38:03:07 PRODUCER WHERE DO YOU SEE THIS MARRIAGE GOING?
00:38:05:18 Out at 00:38:19:08 WANER 100% WELL YOU KNOW STEVE IS A WELL KNOWN PRODUCER, HES BECOMING MORE AND MORE WELL KNOWN AND PRETTY SOON HE PROBABLY WONT HAVE ANY TIME FOR ME BUT FOR THE TIME BEING, WE ARE HAVING A LOT OF FUN.
00:38:31:05 WANER 100% HI LOOK AT THAT SMILE, MY GOSH SHE LOOKS SO GOOD!
00:38:40:10 EVA 100% SHE SAID YOU ARE A MAGICIAN WANER 100% NO IM NOT A MAGICIAN BUT SHES DONE VERY NICELY - EVERYTHING IS GOING VERY WELL.
Out at 00:39:00:24 WANER 100% WE’VE STILL GOT A LONG WAY TO GO, WITH SWELLING AND MAYBE MORE SURGERY, SHE’S GONNA LOOK ALMOST COMPLETELY NORMAL. SHE’LL LOOK MUCH, MUCH BETTER.
00:39:08:02 WANER OKAY LASER IS ON, LETS GO
00:39:16:10 V/O DR WANER IS BACK IN SCRUBS, SQUEEZING IN AS MUCH SURGERY AS HE CAN.
00:39:26:05 Out at 00:39:41:06 WANER 100% I HAVE AN APPOINTMENT AT 9 OCLOCK, I’LL BE DONE BY 930 CAN I GO SOMEWHERE BEFORE THE NEXT CASE? CAN WE DO THAT? THAT WOULD HELP ME OUT A HELL OF A LOT. OKAY?
00:39:43:10 Out at 00:40:02:12 WANER 100% HI OKAY EVERYTHING IS GOOD, THE STITCHES ARE OUT AND I DID LASER TREATMENT NOW YOU WILL SEE THE BLOOD VESSELS ARE DARKER - OVER THE NEXT TWO OR THREE WEEKS THEY SHOULD DISAPPEAR
Upsot ALA SCREAMING
00:40:05:22 Out at 00:40:16:14 V/O TREATMENT FOR AND RECOVERY FROM HAEMANGIOMAS IS LONG AND ITS SLOW. BUT THIS SHOULD BE THE END OF THE ROAD FOR KRISTEN.
00:40:19:09 MICHELLE E 100% TRY TO KEEP STILL SWEETHEART. WANER 100% ALMOST THERE MICHELLE E 100% SO YOU HAPPY? KRISTEN 100% YES
00:40:42:10 Out at 00:40:58:00 WANER 100% ALLRIGHT YOUNG LADY, WE ARE IN GOOD SHAPE. YOU ARE GOOD TO GO AND NEXT TIME I SEE YOU MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A NICE PAIR OF EARRINGS AND I’LL PUT THEM IN OKAY? MICHELLE DEFINITELY WANER AND IF YOU WANT A TONGUE RING OR A NOSE RING, JUST LET ME KNOW OKAY? MICHELLE NUH!
00:41:01:17 Out at 00:41:06:21 V/O NEW FRIENDSHIPS ARE CEMENTED AND ITS TIME FOR ONE LAST CHECK UP BEFORE THE CHILDREN FLY HOME.
00:41:07:17 Out at 00:41:15:02 WANER 100% COME OVER HERE KRISTEN, AND ALA COME OVER HERE THIS SIDE. ALL RIGHT HERE ARE MY TWO FRIENDS. ALLRIGHT.
00:41:24:19 Out at 00:41:33:08 V/O BUT THERE IS TIME FOR A SMALL REWARD BEFORE BOARDING THEIR FLIGHTS LEGENDARY AMERICAN TOY STORE FAO SCHWARZ OPENING ITS DOORS TO ALA AND KRISTEN.
00:41:33:11 UPSOT CHILDREN IN STORE
00:42:01:09 Out at 00:42:07:22 MICHELLE I’M JUST SO HAPPY FOR HER THAT’S SHE’S FINALLY GOT WHAT SHE WANTS AND WE’RE PRETTY MUCH THROUGH IT ALL NOW, ITS GREAT.
00:42:08:10 Out at 00:42:13:19 V/O AND THAT MEANS AN END TO THE BULLYING THAT AT ONE STAGE FORCED KRISTEN TO CHANGE SCHOOLS.
00:42:15:09 MICHELLE E 100% SHE’S CHANGED COMPLETELY. SHE WAS YEAH, WHEN SHE WAS SMALLER – SHE WAS, EVEN THOUGH SHE WAS, EVEN BEFORE SHE COULD TALK – SHE WAS AWARE THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG AND SHE’D HAVE A TENDENCY TO HIDE THAT SIDE OF HER FACE. AND NOW I MEAN YOU ASK ANYBODY AT HER SCHOOL, EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE HER BEST FRIEND. SHE’S VERY POPULAR, SHE’S SECOND IN HER CLASS, EVERYBODY LOVES HER AND ITS ALL GOOD.
Out at 00:42:53:23 SOME PEOPLE COULD BE VERY CRUEL AND VERY RUDE. SOME PEOPLE WERE SYMPATHETIC. BUT YEAH THERE WERE QUITE A FEW UPSETTING MOMENTS, THAT I JUST DECIDED IT WAS EASIER TO STAY AT HOME THAN TO GO OUT IN PUBLIC.
00:42:54:22 EVA ‘S TRANSLATOR SO SHE DIDN’T APPEAR IN PUBLIC PLACES VERY OFTEN. SHE DIDN’T GO TO CINEMAS, TO PLAYGROUNDS, SHE DIDN’T HAVE CONTACT WITH YOUNG CHILDREN. IT WAS MAYBE THE CASE OF ALA, ALA’S REACTION BUT OF HER MOTHERS. BECAUSE SHE WAS VERY UPSET WHEN PEOPLE WERE ASKING HER QUESTIONS ABOUT THE HAEMANGIOMA SO SHE DIDN’T, SHE WANTED TO PROTECT ALA FROM THIS REACTION.
Out at 00:43:40:15 EVA’S TRANSLATOR FOR A YEAR OR HALF A YEAR SHE HAVE BEEN ASKING WHEN IS DR WANER, WHEN THIS MAGICIAN IS GOING TO TAKE THIS OUT? AND NOW SHE LOOKED IN THE MIRROR YESTERDAY AND SHE WAS VERY, SHE WAS VERY, SHE LIKED IT VERY MUCH.
00:43:41:05 Out at 00:43:53:24 V/O EVA CAN NOW GO BACK TO WORK FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FIVE YEARS, AND ALA CAN GO TO PRESCHOOL. EVA THINKS EVERYTHING WILL NOW CHANGE, WITH ALA NO LONGER THE CENTRE OF ATTENTION IN THE FAMILY. MICHELLE CAN GUARANTEE IT!
00:43:55:01 Out at 00:44:09:07 MICHELLE E SHE’S VERY MUCH THE BOSS WHEN IT COMES TO HER SIBLINGS AND YEAH SHE THINKS SHE IS IN CONTROL AND SHE GETS THEM TO DO THINGS THE WAY SHE WANTS THEM SOMETIMES AND I’M GOING TO HAVE TO PULL HER INTO LINE A LITTLE BIT WHEN THIS IS ALL OVER.
00:44:10:00 Out at 00:44:17:10 (TRANSLATOR IN POLISH) EVA 100% YES (LAUGHING)
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0:44:22:11 Out at 00:44:27:16 V/O FIVE MONTHS LATER AND TWO VERY DIFFERENT GIRLS CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS – WORLDS APART.
00:44:28:00 Out at 00:44:34:23 KRISTEN HI DOCTOR WANER ITS KRISTEN I JUST WANTED TO SAY HAPPY CHRISTMAS
00:44:35:19 Out at 00:44:47:17 V/O THEIR LONG AND DIFFICULT JOURNEYS HAVE FINALLY REALISED SOMETHING WE ALL TAKE FOR GRANTED – THE CHANCE AT A NORMAL LIFE. THANKS TO THE WORLDS ONLY GLOBAL ROCKING MEDICO – DR MILTON WANER.
00:44:48:15 Out at 00:45:00:05 MICHELLE E BUT YEAH IT IS WORTH THE FIGHT. IT CAN BE VERY HARD, EXTREMELY EMOTIONAL, VERY HARD ON YOUR RELATIONSHIPS, ON YOUR FAMILY, IF YOU HAVE OTHER CHILDREN. BUT IT’S ALL WORTH IT IN THE END.
00:45:01:03 Out at 00:45:13:04 V/O KRISTEN AND HER HERO DR WANER MIGHT LIVE ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE PLANET ….BUT SHE, LIKE ALL OF HIS PATIENTS, WILL NEVER FORGET THE MAN WHO TRULY MADE ALL OF HER DREAMS COME TRUE.
00:45:14:18 GRAPHIC TO FIND OUT MORE, GO TO: WWW.BIRTHMARK.ORG
00:45:24:22 Out at 00:45:54:19 DIRECTED, PRODUCED AND WRITTEN BY MICHELLE STONE CAMERA OPERATORS PETER VIDULICH, PVTV ADAM VARDY RORY MCLEES EDITOR BAZ LEFFLER POST PRODUCTION LEFFLER POST COMPOSERS JIM HARE CRAIG SUE ADDITONAL ORIGINAL MUSIC DR MILTON WANER SCRIPT CONSULTANT LYNDAL DAVIES LOCATION CONSULTANT – NEW YORK CITY CATHERINE COUNIHAN ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE COURTESY NETWORK TEN AUSTRALIA THANKS TO: DR MILTON WANER MICHELLE AND KRISTEN EARNEY AND THE EARNEY FAMILY EVA, ROBERT AND ALA WASOWSKA THE KUEHL FAMILY GEOFF, BILL AND BETTY RITCHIE JANNA BROWN HUIE VASCULAR BIRTHMARKS FOUNDATION LINDA ROZELL-SHANNON QANTAS AIRLINES BELINDA DE ROME LLOYD QUARTERMAINE BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTRE, NEW YORK CITY CAROL RUBIANO FAO SCHWARZ NANETTE DI FALCO AND ROY REARDON JR STEPHEN LEVITIN, THE APPLE JUICE KID
00:45:54:24 Out at 00:46:00 SLATE A KOPASETIK PRODUCTION
00:02:02:00 Out at 00:02:17:12 V/O IMAGINE A LIFE OF PAIN, MISERY, SHAME AND SUFFERING. THAT WAS BABY KRISTEN’S FUTURE. NOW IMAGINE A MAN OF VISION, A MEDICAL MAGICIAN. A PIONEER TO RESCUE YOUR BABY FROM HELL.
Upsot … WANER’S MUSIC
00:02:19:07 Out at 00:02:41:11 THIS IS THE STORY OF A YOUNG GIRL’S TRIUMPH OVER A RELENTLESS DEMON…. AFTER EIGHT YEARS OF BATTLING A MASSIVE TUMOUR – CALLED A HAEMANGIOMA – BABY KRISTEN IS REUNITING WITH HER HERO…DR MILTON WANER A SURGEON – SAVING HUNDREDS OF THE WORLD’S MOST VULNERABLE …..DESPERATE CHILDREN – WHO HAVE NO WHERE ELSE TO GO.
00:02:42:22 Out at 00:02:46:07 V/O AND THERES MUCH MORE TO THIS MEDIC THAN SCRUBS AND SCALPELS
Title at 00:03:55:12 Title out at 00:04:01:08 Music out at 00:04:07:13 OPENING TITLE: KRISTEN’S HERO Upsot WANER’S MUSIC
00:04:07:14 Out at 00:04:16:05 V/O ITS AN UNLIKELY PLACE TO FIND A WORLD CLASS SURGEON – BUT DR WANER IS JUST AS COMFORTABLE IN FRONT OF A MICROPHONE AS HE IS IN SURGICAL SCRUBS
Upsot … WANER SINGING
00:04:17:03 Out at 00:04:25:22 V/O HE’S NOT YOUR AVERAGE GUY… AND THAT’S HOW HE IS MAKING A DIFFERENCE. THIS SINGING SURGEON IS DEDICATING HIS LIFE – TO HELPING CHILDREN
Upsot WANER SINGING OR GUITAR
00:04:28:15 Out at 00:04:31:20 V/O KRISTEN IS LIVING PROOF OF DR WANER’S DETERMINATION.
Graphic in at 00:04:33:10 GRAPHIC ARKANSAS CHILDRENS’ HOSPITAL 1998 Upsot WANER MEETING KRISTEN
00:04:38:20 Out at 00:04:47.21 V/O WHEN THEY FIRST MET EIGHT YEARS AGO, KRISTEN’S SITUATION WAS BLEAK. THE TINY GIRL HAD A MASSIVE AND AGGRESSIVE TUMOUR CONSUMING AND DISTORTING HER FACE.
Upsot WANER
00:04:54:04 V/O DR WANER IDENTIFIED IT AS A HAEMANGIOMA AND IMMEDIATELY BEGAN TREATMENT.
Out at 00:05:30:06 V/O LIKE AN OUT OF CONTROL CANCER, THESE TUMOURS USUALLY HAVE NO OFF SWITCH. THEY HAVE THE POTENTIAL – AT THE WORST – TO KILL AND AT THE LEAST – TO GROSSLY DISFIGURE A CHILD, IN HIS OR HER MOST VULNERABLE YEARS ….WHEN THE DELICATE SENSES OF SELF IMAGE AND CONFIDENCE ARE CONCIEVED AND DEVELOPED. BABY KRISTEN – WAS LUCKY TO MEET DR WANER EIGHT YEARS AGO. HER TRANSFORMATION BEGAN THEN WITH THE FIRST SURGERY. NOW A YOUNG GIRL – KRISTEN IS ABOUT TO SLAY HER DEMON ONCE AND FOR ALL.
Graphic in at 00:05:31:17 GRAPHIC: SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT July 2006 Upsot PLANE TAKING OFF FROM SYDNEY
00:05:35:14 Out at 00:05:50:15 V/O SYDNEY AIRPORT IS THE STARTING POINT FOR A MARATHON JOURNEY. KRISTEN AND HER MOTHER MICHELLE EARNEY ARE HEADING TO NEW YORK. WHERE SHE’LL BE REUNITED WITH HER HERO FOR THE LAST TIME FOR HER FINAL ROUND OF TREATMENT.
00:05:53:11 Out at 00:06:03:16 Upsot MICHELLE E SEE YA AUSTRALIA I’M NOT SO STRESSED OUT THIS TIME, I’M NERVOUS ABOUT THE SURGERY BUT I’M SORT OF I’M TAKING A LOT MORE OF IT IN THAN I DID.
Upsot JFK ARRIVAL HALL
00:06:11:17 GRAPHIC JFK AIRPORT NEW YORK – 30 HOURS LATER
00:06:22:20 Out at 00:06:25:21 V/O THE EXHAUSTED PAIR ARRIVES IN NEW YORK FULL OF HOPE.
00:06:28:17 Out at 00:06:40:00 MICHELLE E 100% SO WHATTYA THINK? WE’RE HERE! MY FOOTS GONE TO SLEEP. YOUR FOOTS GONE TO SLEEP, MY EARS ARE BLOCKED, I CANT HEAR ANYTHING!
00:06:41:08 Out at 00:06:54:09 V/O MILLIONS OF PEOPLE HAVE TRAVELLED TO NEW YORK CITY IN SEARCH OF A NEW LIFE – IT’S A HUGE UNDERTAKING FOR KRISTEN AND MICHELLE BUT THEY WILL GO ANYWHERE TO SEE DR WANER AND FINALLY REALISE KRISTEN’S DREAM OF A NORMAL LIFE.
00:06:56:18 Out at 00:07:05:03 MICHELLE E AND KRISTEN 100% IT’S WEIRD ISNT IT? YES. THE STEERING WHEEL IS IN THE WRONG PLACE. SO WHATTYA WANNA DO? UM
00:07:07:06 Out at 00:07:12:16 V/O AS MANHATTAN LOOMS IN THE DISTANCE, EXCITEMENT OVERTAKES THE JETLAG FOR MICHELLE AND KRISTEN
00:07:18:20 Out at 00:07:31:10 MICHELLE E AND KRISTEN 100% MADISON AVENUE, I CAN’T BELIEVE I’M ON MADISON AVENUE. MACCAS! (laugh) TRUST YOU! WHAT? THERE. OH THE MAN WITH THE CIGAR IN HIS MOUTH?
UPSOT MUSIC
00:07:50:23 KRISTEN 100% ITS PRETTY AT NIGHT MICHELLE 100% IT IS, ISN’T IT. KRISTEN 100% YEAH MICHELLE 100% SO WHATTYA THINK? KRISTEN 100% IT’S REALLY GOOD. MICHELLE 100% IT’S REALLY GOOD. OH DADDY! TELL HIM WHERE WE ARE KRISTEN 100% WE’RE IN NEW YORK
KRISTEN 100% THERES LOTS OF BRIGHT LIGHTS AND ITS VERY PRETTY. I DON’T REALLY LIKE THE SMELL THOUGH.
00:08:32:00 Out at 00:08:39:13 Upsot MAN (OBSCENITY BLEEPED OUT) GET YOUR FUCKIN ASS WIPE… Upsot MICHELLE E OOOH AH, SOME PEOPLE ARE SAYING SOME VERY NAUGHTY WORDS (LAUGH)
00:08:41:04 Out at 00:08:55:17 V/O THEY ARE JUST TOO EXCITED TO REST YET. THE ENERGY OF TIME SQUARE TOO HARD TO RESIST AS THEY STRETCH THEIR LEGS ONE THING IS FOR SURE, MANHATTAN IS A LONG WAY FROM THEIR HOME – THE SMALL AUSTRALIAN COUNTRY TOWN OF BAIRNSDALE.
00:08:57:18 Out at 00:09:47:02 V/O KRISTEN’S PROBLEMS BEGAN AS A DAY-OLD INFANT. WHEN A TINY PURPLE SHADOW APPEARED ON HER FACE. WITHIN A WEEK, THE NIGHTMARE HAD BEGUN. THE SPOT RAPIDLY GREW INTO A MASSIVE, UGLY TUMOUR. IT BEGAN TO ENGULF HER BEAUTIFUL FACE, ERASING HER OTHERWISE NORMAL FEATURES. BY THREE MONTHS, KRISTEN WAS UNRECOGNISABLE AND IN A GREAT DEAL OF PAIN. SHE WAS STRUGGLING TO BREATHE AND WAS LOSING SIGHT IN ONE EYE. DOCTORS TOLD MICHELLE AND HER HUSBAND LEIGH EARNEY TO TAKE THEIR BABY HOME, THAT THERE WAS NOTHING TO BE DONE. BUT MICHELLE’S CRIES FOR HELP THROUGH THE MEDIA LED HER TO DOCTOR MILTON WANER. HE RESCUED KRISTEN, GUIDING HER ON A LONG AND PAINFUL JOURNEY TO CONQUER THE GROWTH. BUT HE STILL BELIEVES THERE IS MORE THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE.
00:09:53:03 Out at 00:09:55:07 MICHELLE THERE YOU GO TOURIST TAKE CARE MICHELLE THANKS VERY MUCH
00:09:56:07 V/O NOW, EVEN AFTER YEARS OF SUCCESSFUL SURGICAL PROCEDURES, KRISTEN’S APPEARANCE STILL ATTRACTS UNWANTED ATTENTION WHEN SHE VENTURES OUT IN PUBLIC.
Out at 00:10:12:12 ITS SOMETHING SHE HAS GROWN USED TO BUT IT STILL HURTS. KRISTEN IS READY TO MEET WITH DR WANER ONE LAST TIME.
00:10:12:12 Out at 00:10:45:16 MICHELLE E 100% I KNOW WHERE WE ARE NOW. I’VE BEEN HERE BEFORE. WHERE IS IT? KRISTEN 100% WHERE IS IT? MICHELLE 100% SHE JUST WANTS TO SAY HELLO TO A NEW YORK CITY COP. WE’RE FROM AUSTRALIA. COP 100% VERY NICE! HOW YOU DOIN? MICHELLE 100% GOOD. COP 100% HAVING FUN I HOPE? MICHELLE 100% YES. SO YOU HAPPY? WHATS THIS ONE? COP 100% THIS IS A BASEBALL TEAM. MICHELLE 100% OH, FOLLOW YOUR DREAM. OH OKAY. IVE GOT ONE FOR MY FOOTBALL TEAM AT HOME. COP 100% THERE YOU GO. THOUGH FOOTBALL IS REAL FOOTBALL THERE. MICHELLE 100% YEAH. WE DON’T HAVE PADDING AND HELMETS
00:10:46:15 Out at 00:10:51:02 V/O YOU CAN GET ALMOST ANYTHING IN NEW YORK – AS KRISTEN IS ABOUT TO DISCOVER.
00:10:52:05 Out at 00:10:55:03 KRISTEN 100% A REALLY BIG CITY. MICHELLE 100% REALLY BIG.
00:11:02:02 GRAPHIC: BETH ISRAEL HOSPITAL NEW YORK CITY Upsot CITY
00:11:08:00 Out at 00:11:28:00 V/O THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN ACROSS THE GLOBE ARE SUFFERING FROM HAEMANGIOMAS. UNTIL THEY FIND DR WANER. UNLIKE KRISTEN, 5 YEAR OLD POLISH GIRL ALA WASOWSKA HAS NEVER HAD ANY TREATMENT. TODAY THE TWO GIRLS WILL MEET FOR THE FIRST TIME. IT’S KRISTEN’S TURN TO PROVIDE SOME MUCH NEEDED REASSURANCE AND SUPPORT
00:11:28:18 MICHELLE E TO ALA 100% HELLO. HELLO BEAUTIFUL, HOW ARE YOU?
00:11:32:18 Out at 00:11:36:17 V/O KRISTEN SEES IN ALA, HOW HER LIFE COULD HAVE BEEN.
00:11:37:07 MICHELLE E 100% DON’T BE SCARED. SHE WILL BE FINE. YOU WILL HAVE NOTHING TO BE SCARED ABOUT.
Out at 00:12:09:20 KRISTEN AND MICHELLE E 100% I’VE DONE THIS BEFORE. AND HOW DID IT FEEL, CAN YOU REMEMBER ANY PAIN? NO. CAN YOU REMEMBER ANY BAD THINGS? NO. AND WHATS DOCTOR WANER LIKE? GOOD. HE’S NICE. HE’S NICE.
00:12:19:22 Out at 00:12:27:16 MICHELLE E 100% OKAY. YOU READY TO GO UP? YOU EXCITED? YEAH! GET ALL THIS FINISHED EH?
00:12:32:06 Out at 00:12:36:19 V/O THESE FAMILIES HAVE CROSSED OCEANS FOR THE HELP OF AN EXTRAORDINARY DOCTOR.
00:12:40:07 Out at 00:13:04:06 WANER 100% HI KRISTEN, HI. GOOD TO SEE YOU. MICHELLE 100% SHE’S DYING TO SEE YOU. WANER 100% GOOD TO SEE YOU. HI GUYS. MICHELLE 100% I GOTTA HUG YOU. WANER 100% ALL RIGHT. LONG TIME NO SEE. MICHELLE 100% YES. YOU LOOK GREAT. WANER 100% THANK YOU. MICHELLE 100% YOU DON’T LOOK ANY DIFFERENT. WANER 100% BOY, LOOK AT YOU. YOU’RE A BIG GIRL NOW HUH? MY GOSH. MICHELLE 100% HOW WELL HAS SHE IMPROVED? WANER 100% SHE’S UNBELIEVABLE, SHE REALLY IS.
00:13:08:02 Out at 00:13:24:01 WANER 100% HI EVERYTHING OK? LITTLE NERVOUS. YOU KNOW. DON’T WORRY. TELL HER PLEASE NOT TO WORRY. TRANSLATOR IT’S EASY TO SAY. WANER OH I KNOW. I KNOW.
00:13:24.19 Out at 00:13:37:20 Upsot POLISH TO INTERPRETER 100% THEY’RE SCARED ABOUT THIS OPERATION BUT THEY FEEL NERVOUS, SCARED BUT THEY HOPE THIS OPERATION WILL BRING THE RESULTS. THEY DON’T EXPECT HER TO LOOK AMAZING YOU KNOW BUT AT LEAST LOOKING NORMAL ENOUGH.
00:13:38:11 Out at 00:13:51:05 V/O POLISH DOCTORS TOLD ALA’S PARENTS TO WAIT AND SEE – THAT THERE WAS NO ANSWER. ….WORDS THAT WERE ALL TOO FAMILIAR TO MICHELLE EARNEY. UNLIKE ALA’S RENDITION OF THIS POLISH LULLABY
Upsot ALA SINGING
00:14:05:22 Out at 00:14:10:19 Upsot INTERPRETER THE FEELING THAT THEY JUST CAN’T DO ANYTHING WAS JUST KILLING - KILLING HER - AS A MOTHER.
ALA SINGING EVA 100% IT’S A LONG ONE!
00:14:41:03 V/O ALA IS PREPARING FOR LIFE-CHANGING SURGERY
00:14:48:05 Out at 00:15:00:05 Upsot WANER ALL YOU WANT IS FOR HER TO BE SO NORMAL THAT IF SHE GOES INTO THE PLAYGROUND, NOBODY WILL NOTICE HER, NOBODY WILL SAY ANYTHING –IN OTHER WORDS, SHES GOTTA LOOK NORMAL AND THAT’S OUR OBJECTIVE.
00:15:01:00 INTERPRETER 100% WELL PEOPLE ARE USUALLY VERY CURIOUS ABOUT HER LOOK, THE WAY HOW SHE LOOKS IT DIDN’T HAPPEN ALL THE TIME BUT SOMETIMES THE MOTHERS WHO WERE PREGNANT DIDN’T WANT TO LOOK AT ALA BECAUSE THEY WERE SCARED THAT THEIR CHILD MAY LOOK THE SAME.
Out at 00:15:24:23 IN POLAND PEOPLE WERE JUST SAYING, YOU JUST NEED TO WAIT BUT NOBODY COULD SAY, HOW LONG IT WOULD TAKE.
00:15:29:08 KRISTEN 100% A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE ASKING ME, WHEN ARE YOU GOING – WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR FACE. ITS JUST SO ANNOYING.
TEASING ME ABOUT MY FACE. SHOVING BROKEN SHOVELS INTO MY HAND. WHAT WERE THEY SAYING? YOU LOOK UGLY AND STUFF. THAT’S MEAN! WHAT DID YOU SAY TO THEM? I JUST WALKED AWAY.
Out at 00:16:13:21 IT’S OKAY. I’VE GONE THROUGH THIS BEFORE AND MUM DIDN’T REALLY STRESS.
00:16:17:21 V/O THE PHYSICAL PAIN THESE CHILDREN FACE IS MATCHED ONLY BY THE EMOTIONAL TOLL THE CONDITION AND ITS TREATMENT TAKES ON PARENTS.
00:16:26:14 Out at 00:16:38:04 INTERPRETER EVERYBODY WERE WONDERING WHEN WILL YOUR HUSBAND LEAVE YOU – JUST HOW YOUR MARRIAGE WILL GO THROUGH THAT? THEY WERE CONCERNED THAT ROBERT MIGHT LEAVE AT ONE POINT OF THAT.
00:16:52:15 WANER 100% OKAY SO WE’RE GONNA TAKE THE CHILD IN AND WE’LL PLACE HER UNDER ANAESTHETIC AND TELL MUM NOT TO WORRY. SOMETIMES WHEN SHE GOES TO SLEEP THEY STRUGGLE AND THEY FIGHT BUT THERES NO DISCOMFORT. OKAY?
Out at 00:17:28:05 WANER 100% ALL RIGHT TELL MUM SHE CAN KISS HER SHE’S FINE. TALK TO HER AND TELL HER NOT TO WORRY OKAY?
00:17:28:21 MICHELLE E 100% TELL HER THIS WILL GET - IT ALL GETS BETTER FROM HERE, SHE’LL BE FINE.
00:17:34:10 V/O DR WANER WILL OPERATE FIRST ON ALA, THEN KRISTEN – BEFORE HE TACKLES A NUMBER OF OTHER HAEMANGIOMA CASES – ITS A TYPICAL DAY OF SURGERY FOR HIM.
00:17:51:15 V/O DR WANER WILL TAKE HIS TIME REMOVING THE ENORMOUS TUMOUR AND CAREFULLY RECONSTRUCTING ALA’S TINY FACE.
00:17:58:22 WANER 100% THE HAEMANGIOMA HAS OBVIOUSLY DISTENDED EVERYTHING, AND SO WE HAVE A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF EXCESS SKIN.
Out at 00:18:27:15 WANER 100% IT’S VERY THIN AND ATROPHIC AND REALLY NOT THE KIND OF SKIN I WOULD LIKE TO KEEP. SO, WHAT WE’RE ABLE TO DO - IS I NEED TO MOVE HER NOSE OVER INTO THE CORRECT POSITION AND YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE HAEMANGIOMA ACTUALLY STICKING THROUGH THE SKIN INTO THE NASAL CAVITY.
00:18:30:23 Out at 00:18:44:16 GRAPHIC: HAEMANGIOMA: ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; A TANGLE OF ABNORMAL VESSELS THAT FORMS AN ABNORMAL COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE ARTERIAL AND VENOUS SYSTEMS
00:18:44:18 WANER 100% THE OTHER THING I NEED TO DO, IS I NEED TO BRING HER LIP UP AND THE CORNER OF HER MOUTH UP INTO A REASONABLE POSITION. AND AT THE SAME TIME, I’VE GOTTA TAKE ALL OF THAT SKIN AND MOVE IT OVER. AND I’VE DETERMINED THAT I HAVE SUFFICIENT SKIN TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT.
IT’S A VERY LARGE HAEMANGIOMA BUT WE SEE HAEMANGIOMAS LIKE THIS FROM TIME TO TIME. IT’S VERY LARGE AND DISFIGURING.
KRISTEN HAD WHAT WE CALL A SEGMENTAL HAEMANGIOMA. SEGMENTAL HAEMANGIOMAS ARE A LOT MORE DESTRUCTIVE, THEY CAUSE A LOT OF LOCAL TISSUE DESTRUCTION AND THEY ARE VERY AGGRESSIVE. THIS CHILD HAS A FOCAL HAMEMANGIOMA.
ITS DISPLACED AND DISFIGURED EVERYTHING BUT ITS NOT DESTROYED SO I’M GONNA FIND NORMAL STRUCTURES HERE. THIS IS BEING VERY BOLD BECAUSE THAT’S TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF SKIN WE’RE LOSING BUT I BELIEVE WE CAN DO IT.
IF YOU CUT INTO IT, WHICH I AM GOING TO DO FROM TIME TO TIME, YOU’LL SEE A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF BLEEDING. THIS CHILD ONLY HAS ONE POINT TWO LITRES TOTAL AND SO IF I LOSE 3-400 ML THAT’S A VERY SUBSTANTIAL BLOOD LOSS FOR THIS CHILD. FOR YOU OR MYSELF THAT WOULDN’T BE A PROBLEM AT ALL. SO IT’S A BLOOD FILLED TUMOUR.
Out at 00:20:17:00 WELL I’M NOT GONNA LOSE THAT MUCH BLOOD, I’M GONNA BE VERY CAREFUL. WE’VE DEVELOPED TECHNIQUES.
00:20:20:05 NURSE 100% ALL RIGHT SWEETIE. CHUG A LUG IT, CHUG A LUG IT. THAT’S IT. WHAT A GOOD GIRL.
00:20:24:15 KRISTEN 100% I’M EXCITED ABOUT THE OPERATION. PRODUCER ARE YOU? HOW LONG YOU BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE? KRISTEN A LONG TIME.
Out at 00:20:48:13 HE’S REALLY NICE AND HELPFUL. MY NOSE, MY MOUTH, MY EYE AND THIS PART OF MY FACE IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE THAT PART. PRODUCER SO IT WILL MATCH.
00:20:55:10 Out at 00:21:08:17 V/O ITS HARD TO BELIEVE KRISTEN ENDURED MULTIPLE SURGERIES, FAR MORE INTENSIVE THAN YOUNG ALA. BUT JUST FIVE HOURS ON THE OPERATING TABLE ENDS FIVE YEARS OF PAIN AND SEVERE PSYCHOLOGICAL TORMENT FOR THIS BRAVE POLISH GIRL.
00:21:09:10 JANNA 100% SHOULD WE DO THE WANER DANCE NOW? HUH? WANER NO, SO THIS IS IT. SO EVERYTHING IS NOW FREE.
IT WAS VERY DEEP. BUT NOT DEEPER THAN I THOUGHT. IT DID WHAT THEY ALL DO. PRODUCER WHICH IS? WANER GOES VERY DEEP ALL THE WAY UP TO THE BONE.
Out at 00:21:34:10 SHE’LL LOOK VERY GOOD. YOU’LL SEE WHEN THE LAST STITCH IS IN. YOU’LL SEE.
00:21:36:01 V/O IT SEEMS CRAZY ALA HAD TO WAIT FIVE YEARS.
00:21:40:03 WANER 100% ITS UNFORTUNATE BUT I GUESS AT LEAST THEY GOT HERE. AND AH THAT’S THE ONLY CONSOLATION NOW.
00:21:50:23 Out at 00:22:04:11 V/O DOWN THE HALL, KRISTEN CONTINUES HER PREPARATION. Upsot KRISTEN TALKING DRUNKENLY TO MINICAM V/O SHE IS NEXT AND HOPEFULLY, AFTER EIGHT YEARS OF TREATMENT, THIS WILL BE HER LAST MAJOR SURGERY.
Upsot ALA PLACED ON GURNEY, CRYING.
Upsot EVA RUNS INTO POST OP
EVA 100% MUMMY’S HERE. (POLISH) Upsot ALA THRASHING
00:22:23:19 Out at 00:22:37:00 V/O ALA IS IN PAIN BUT THE WORST IS OVER. NOW THE HEALING BEGINS – DR WANER HAS GIVEN HER THE BEST POSSIBLE CHANCE AT A NORMAL LIFE. ITS SOMETHING KRISTEN – A SURGICAL VETERAN – HAS ALWAYS WANTED.
00:22:47:08 Out at 00:22:59:20 MICHELLE E 100% ITS ALLRIGHT MUMMY IS RIGHT HERE. I TOLD YOU I’D BE HERE. I’LL BE HERE WHEN YOU GO TO SLEEP AND I’LL BE HERE WHEN YOU WAKE UP, YOU’RE A GOOD GIRL.
00:23:00:20 Out at 00:23:12.20 ANAETHETIST 100% IF YOU WANNA GO GRAB YOURSELF A CUP OF COFFEE OR LUNCH AND THEN I’LL SEE YOU LATER. MICHELLE E YES I MIGHT DO THAT. TAKE GOOD CARE OF MY BABY. ANAETHETIST PROMISE. PROMISE.
00:23:17:13 Out at 00:23:38:15 WANER 100% OKAY KRISTEN LETS FIX IT UP. FIRST THING WE’RE GOING TO DO IS WE’RE GONNA FIX UP HER NOSE. SEE HOW SHE’S GOT THIS BULBOUS NOSE? THE NASAL TIP? SO I’M GOING TO FIX HER NASAL TIP.
Upsot QUESTION ABOUT COSMETIC TWEAKING
00:23:43:21 WANER 100% SURE, JUST FINISHING TOUCHES TO GET HER A LOT MORE NORMAL. SHE’S GOT A LOT OF SCARRING AND I’M JUST TRYING TO SEE WHAT I CAN DO HERE.
00:23:58:06 Out at 00:24:16:20 V/O DR WANER WANTS ALL HIS YOUNG PATIENTS TO EXPERIENCE WHAT IT IS TO BE NORMAL. BORN TO CONSERVATIVE JEWISH PARENTS IN A SMALL SOUTH AFRICAN GOLD MINING TOWN IN 1953, HE ENDURED THE PAIN OF ANTI-SEMITISM AS A CHILD. IT’S MADE HIM SENSITIVE TO CHILDREN WHO JUST DON’T FIT IN.
00:24:18:16 Out at 00:24:30:15 00:24:32:06 PRODUCER SHE TOLD ME SHE WAS REALLY EXCITED BECAUSE THE CHILDREN AT SCHOOL CALLED HER UGLY. WANER 100% OH REALLY? PRODUCER SHE HAS BEEN QUITE BADLY BULLIED. DO YOU SEE THAT A LOT WITH YOUR PATIENTS? WANER 100% YEAH, UNFORTUNATELY YEAH YOU DO. WANER 100% HER LIP LINE AT THE MOMENT IS VERY MOTH EATEN, ITS VERY IRREGULAR FROM THE ULCERATION SO I’M GONNA CORRECT THAT.
00:24:41:00 Out at 00:24:45:21 V/O DR WANER’S GROUNDBREAKING SUCCESS WITH KRISTEN HAS GENERATED MORE WORK FOR HIM.
00:24:49:13 Out at 00:24:59:17 LYNN 100% ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL. WE COULDN’T ASK FOR A BETTER DOCTOR, I’M NOT NERVOUS ABOUT HER SURGERY AT ALL AND SHE’S NOT EITHER THAT’S RIGHT.
00:24:59:23 00:25:05:20 V/O BUT MUCH MORE NEEDS TO BE DONE TO GET THE MESSAGE OUT TO THOUSANDS OF FRUSTRATED PARENTS AROUND THE WORLD. LYNN 100% SO FAR SO GOOD. I MEAN, WE WISH THAT WE WOULD HAVE KNOWN MORE EARLIER. BUT WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE A GOOD DOCTOR NOW AND YOU KNOW THEY’VE HAD A LOT WORSE THAN WE HAVE. CAITLIN’S IS NOT HOPEFULLY AS DIFFICULT AS THE OTHERS.
Out at 00:25:35:11 LYNN 100% WE WISH WE COULD GET THE MESSAGE OUT TO OTHER PEOPLE AND I DON’T KNOW HOW TO GO ABOUT DOING THAT. I’M SURPRISED THAT EVERYBODY DOESN’T KNOW ABOUT PHYSICIANS LIKE DR WANER.
00:25:36:06 Out at 00:25:42:19 V/0 UNLIKE ALA’S PARENTS, THE KUEHL FAMILY HAD NOT YET RETREATED FROM EVERYDAY EXCURSIONS OUTSIDE THE FAMILY HOME.
00:25:43:19 DAD 100% ITS JUST BEEN A STRESSFUL EXPERIENCE ANYTIME YOU GO OUT BASICALLY ANYWHERE IN PUBLIC – BASICALLY PEOPLE JUST LOOK AND STARE.
00:25:50:22 Out at 00:26:08:19 LYNN 100% WE’VE HAD A WAITER TAKE A PICTURE OF HER IN A RESTAURANT WITH HIS PHONE, WITH HIS CAMERA PHONE JUST COME UP AND TAKE A PICUTRE OF HER. I’VE HAD PEOPLE COME UP AND ACTUALLY GRAB IT. SO BUT I MEAN YOU KNOW YOU DEAL WITH IT AND YOU GO ON.
00:26:09:04 V/O BUT THAT’S SOMETHING GEOFF RITCHIE HASN’T BEEN ABLE TO DO – NOT YET.
Out at 00:26:35:10 THE PROBLEMS BEGAN FOR GEOFF WITH A VASCULAR ANOMALY CALLED A PORT WINE STAIN – IT’S NOT A HAEMANGIOMA, IT’S AN ENLARGEMENT OF THE BLOOD VESSELS ON HIS FACE. BUT TIMING IS EVERYTHING. HAD GEOFF BEEN BORN OF THIS GENERATION, DR WANER COULD HAVE PROBABLY ARRESTED THE PROBLEM VERY EARLY, WITH LASER TREATMENT. BUT GEOFF IS HOPEFUL DR WANER CAN HELP HIM.
00:26:35:18 GEOFF RITCHIE 100% I AM CERTAINLY HOPEFUL BUT I’M GUESSING HE MIGHT DO SOME MORE ZAPPING WITH THE LASER AND LIGHTEN IT A BIT BUT WE’LL SEE WHAT HE SAYS.
00:26:54:05 BILL RITCHIE 100% YOU KNOW WHEN I TALKED TO HIM, HE SAID ABSOLUTELY I CAN HELP YOUR SON, NOT EVEN A QUESTION ABOUT IT.
SEVERAL THINGS ABOUT DR WANER – FIRST OF ALL HIS TECHNIQUE AND HIS WILLINGNESS TO GO WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD IS SIGNIFICANT. THE OTHER SIGNIFICAN THING ABOUT THAT HOWEVER THAT IS MOST UNUSUAL IS HE HAS TO BE ONE OF THE MOST POSITIVE PEOPLE YOU WILL MEET ON THE PLANET. WHEN HE SAYS I CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS, WHAT HE MEANS IS I CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS, I WILL DO SOMETHING. HE’S NOT SUPERMAN AND YOU KNOW YOU CANT CHANGE SOMETHING OVER NIGHT AND MAKE IT PERFECT BUT IN THE END WHAT IS PERFECT? I MEAN YOU DO THE BEST YOU CAN AND THAT’S HIS MOTTO – IS THAT EVERY CHILD HAS THE RIGHT TO LOOK NORMAL AND SO HE IS, HE IS COMMITTED TO THAT WITH A VENGEANCE.
Out at 00:27:47:20 DON’T LISTEN TO PEOPLE WHO SAY THERE IS NO HOPE BECAUSE THERE IS.
00:27:50:05 Out at 00:28:15:03 WANER 100% JUST GO TO PLAYLIST NUMBER ONE. JANNA 100% WE DID NUMBER ONE ALREADY. DO NUMBER TWO. WANER NO NUMBER TWO IS MY SEXY MUSIC. GO TO NUMBER THREE. JANNA YOUR SEXY MUSIC? WE GOTTA HEAR THIS NOW. WANER ITS MY EUROPEAN TECHNO MUSIC. PRODUCER YOU DO NOT LISTEN TO TECHNO! WANER YES I DO. WHATS WRONG WITH THAT?
00:28:15:08 V/O AFTER A SURPRISING DISCOVERY – AND REMOVAL - OF SOME MORE HAEMANGIOMA LURKING IN KRISTEN’S NOSE – DR WANER IS SATISFIED.
00:28:24:22 WANER 100% NOW THIS IS THE PERFECT NOSE. SHE’S GOT A NICE SLOPE, SHE’S GOT A GOOD SHAPE, HER PROFILE IS PERFECT.
Out at 00:28:51:02 SHE’S GOT A PERFECT PROFILE, SHE’S GOT A NICE LITTLE TIP, A STRAIGHT PROFILE AND THESE INCISIONS WILL HEAL VERY NICELY, YOU WONT SEE THEM. PRODUCER SO SHE COULDN’T HAVE DONE ANY BETTER IF SHE WENT TO HOLLYWOOD? WANER I HOPE SO. SHE LOOKS QUITE GOOD.
00:28:51:08 WANER 100% PERFECTION IS THE ENEMY OF CURE AND WE CAN GET THEM LOOKING VERY, VERY GOOD.
Out at 00:29:08:17 OBVIOUSLY YOU CAN KEEP GOING BACK MORE AND MORE AND MORE AND ONE WONDERS WHERE THE END POINT IS BUT YOU HAVE TO DRAW THE LINE SOMEWHERE, OTHERWISE YOU’LL KEEP OPERATING.
00:29:17:01 WANER 100% HI ALL DONE. MICHELLE E 100% HOW DID SHE GO? WANER 100% SHE’S GOT A CUTE LITTLE NOSE. WE FIXED HER LIP UP NICELY AND WORKED ON THE UPPER AND THE LOWER LIP AND SHE’S GONNA HAVE A MUCH NEATER LOWER LIP WE GOT SOME RID OF SOME OF THE SCARRING AND WE’VE A NICE NEAT NORMAL LOOKING LIP SO SHE SHOULD DO FINE.
Out at 00:29:45:05 WANER 100% SO THAT’S IT. SIT TIGHT AND RELAX AND I THINK WE ARE GOING TO SEE HER SHORTLY. WE’RE GONNA SEE HER VERY SHORTLY.
00:29:48:17 MICHELLE E THERES MY BABY
OH LOOK. SHE LOOKS GREAT. I CAN SEE HER MOUTH.
Out at 00:30:21:00 SHES GOT A BRAND NEW MOUTH AND THERE WAS STILL SOME HAEMANGIOMA LEFT IN THE TIP OF HER NOSE AND HE’S THINNED OUT THAT BIT IN BETWEEN HER NOSTRILS. OH YOU SHOULD SEE HER MOUTH. ITS PERFECT.
00:30:31:11 Out at 00:30:44:02 V/O IN THE CITY THAT SUPPOSEDLY NEVER SLEEPS, DR WANER MANAGES A FEW HOURS OF REST EACH NIGHT BEFORE HE HITS THE STREETS OF MANHATTAN AT DAWN. JOGGING – IS THE ANTIDOTE TO AN EXTREMELY STRESSFUL WORKLOAD.
00:30:44:19 Out at 00:31:08:16 WANER YOU KNOW THE PRESSURE IS TREMENDOUS. MY BIGGEST CONCERN IS THAT I CANT SPEAK TO ALL THE PATIENTS AND THAT SO MANY PARENTS CALL AND CALL AND CALL AND ARE UNABLE TO REACH ME. MY SCHEDULE IS SO FULL I DON’T THINK I COULD SQUEEZE ANOTHER MINUTE IN AND MY ABILITY TO GET BACK TO PATIENTS IS VERY DIFFICULT.
00:31:10:16 Out at 00:31:23:21 V/O A TRUE PIONEER, DR WANER DOES WHAT NO OTHER DOCTOR WILL DO – INTERVENING EARLY AND WITH AN AGGRESSIVE PLAN OF MANAGEMENT. PLAGUED FOR A LONG TIME BY THE MEDICAL SCEPTICS, THE CRITICISM IS BEGINNING TO EVAPORATE.
00:31:24:18 Out at 00:31:34:22 WANER 100% WHEN YOU BELIEVE IN WHAT YOU’RE DOING, I THINK IT’S A LOT EASIER AND IT’S A LOT EASIER TO TAKE RISKS BUT THE RISKS I’M TAKING ARE VERY ARE VERY SMALL.
00:31:38:00 Out at 00:31:54:06 V/O DR WANER TURNS VERY FEW CHILDREN AWAY AND HE HAS LOST JUST ONE PATIENT TO A HAEMANGIOMA.
00:31:54:10 Out at 00:32:15:07 WANER 100% WE FACE THAT FROM TIME TO TIME BECAUSE SOME OF THESE CHILDREN ARE VERY VERY VERY ILL. THEY’RE IN CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE AND THEIR BLOOD PLATELET LEVEL IS DOWN TO A POINT WHERE THEY CONTINUOUSLY HAEMORRAGE SO THERE ARE POTENTIAL RISKS AND COMPLICATIONS. YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT SOME OF THESE KIDS ARE VERY, VERY SICK.
00:32:18:08 Out at 00:32:32:18 V/O THE MANY TRIBUTES THAT COVER HIS CLINIC WALLS – ARE PROOF OF THE ATTACHMENT THAT DEVELOPS BETWEEN SURGEON AND PATIENTS - AND THEIR TRUSTING PARENTS. THEY’VE LABELLED HIM A HERO, AN ANGEL, A MAGICIAN – KRISTEN CALLS HIM UNCLE MILTIE.
00:33:09:06 Out at 00:33:47:10 WANER 100% THE ATTACHMENT WILL NEVER END. SOMEWHERE DOWN IN MY HEART THERE’S ALWAYS A LITTLE PLACE FOR KRISTEN. SHE’S COME A LONG WAY AND THAT’S GRATIFYING. KRISTEN WAS IN A LOT OF TROUBLE WHEN I SAW HER. IN FACT I WASN’T 100 PER CENT THAT I’D BE ABLE TO DO A LOT FOR HER BUT WE TRIED AND WE SUCCEEDED. AND I THINK THAT WHAT SHE IS NOW IS A TESTAMENT TO THAT BUT ONE NEVER LOSES THE ATTACHMENT AND I REALLY ENJOY THAT AND I ENJOY BEING PART OF SO MANY FAMILIES AND I LOOK FORWARDS TO A LOT OF WEDDING INVITATIONS WHEN I’M AN OLD MAN!
00:33:48:20 Out at 00:34:01:05 V/O BECAUSE HAEMANGIOMAS RARELY KILL – GOVERNMENT FUNDING IS LIMITED. THERE IS NO CURE YET AND DR WANER IS WORKING WITH A TEAM AT THE NEVADA CANCER INSTITUTE TO ESTABLISH A MODEL TO TEST A DRUG SOLUTION.
00:34:02:11 Out at 00:34:26:15 WANER 100% THESE ARE VERY DIFFICULT TUMOURS TO MIMIC BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY CELLS THAT ARE ACTIVE. THIS IS NOT JUST A TUMOUR OF ONE CELL AND THE INTERACTION BETWEEN THE CELLS IS VERY IMPORTANT. AND SO IT’S BEEN VERY DIFFICULT TO DEVELOP A MODEL BUT WE SEEM TO BE ON THE VERGE OF A BREAKTHROUGH. AND SO I THINK A DRUG CURE IS STILL A LONG WAY OFF BUT HOPEFULLY NOT TOO LONG.
00:34:27:10 V/O UNTIL THEN, DR WANER WILL CONTINUE TO WORK WITH A HEALTHY DOSE OF SELF-DOUBT.
00:34:32:17 WANER 100% ONE HAS TO QUESTION ONES ACTIONS. AND ONE HAS TO QUESTION ONE’S SELF CONSTANTLY. AND I LIKE TO THINK ABOUT THE CASES THAT ARE COMING UP. BECAUSE I’M NOT SURE WHAT I’M GOING TO DO, AND I’D HATE TO BE IN THE SITUATION WHERE I DIDN’T KNOW WHAT TO DO AND SO I’M CONSTANTLY HAVING FALL BACK PLANS.
Out at 00:35:08:06 AND SO WHEN I LIE AWAKE AT NIGHT I OBVIOUSLY THINK ABOUT THE CASES COMING YOU KNOW I THINK ABOUT OTHER THINGS AS WELL. MY MIND’S NOT JUST ONE-TRACK MEDICINE.
00:35:10:20 GRAPHIC SONY MUSIC STUDIOS MID TOWN MANHATTAN Upsot WANER ON GUITAR
00:35:23:20 Out at 00:35:28:17 STEVEN 100% HEY MILTON, MAKE SURE ON THE INTRO WHEN YOU FIRST COME IN JUST MAKE SURE YOU DON’T RUSH, OKAY?
00:35:50:19 Out at 00:36:04:01 WANER 100% SHOULD WE DO IT ONE MORE TIME? I’M NOT GOING TO PLAY THE FIRST VERSE OF THE – I’M JUST GONNA, I’M JUST GONNA LIGHTLY STRUM THE FIRST VERSE OF THE BRIDGE OKAY?
00:36:05:01 Out at 00:36:15:22 V/O ITS REASSURING TO KNOW THERES MORE TO DR WANER THAN MEDICINE. HIS PASSION FOR MUSIC HAS LED HIM TO SONY MUSIC STUDIOS – WHERE INCREDIBLY - HE IS FINDING TIME TO RECORD AN ALBUM.
00:36:17:21 Out at 00:36:53:22 STEVEN THE VERY FIRST TIME I WASN’T QUITE SURE WHAT TO SAY TO HIM POLITELY BECAUSE I JUST DIDN’T KNOW IF I COULD BE HONEST WITH HIM OR NOT ABOUT MY BRUTAL CRITICISM OF IT. THERE WAS JUST A TONNE OF THINGS WRONG WITH IT AND I WASN’T SURE IF I WAS ACTUALLY GONNA WANNA DO IT OR NOT AND I WAS KINDA JUST BLINDLY GOING INTO IT THINKING I’LL MEET WITH HIM AND SEE WHAT HE IS LIKE IN PERSON BUT I HAD NO IDEA WHAT TO COMPARE IT TO, THE ONLY THING I CAN SAY IS IT SOUNDS ADULT CONTEMPORARY WHICH IS YOU KNOW PROBABLY ONE OF THE WORST THINGS YOU CAN MAYBE SAY TO A MUSICIAN (LAUGHTER)
00:37:03:08 Out at 00:37:23:10 STEVEN (OVERLAID WITH WANER) AND IT REALLY WENT FROM ONE EXTREME, OF JUST THINKING IT WAS ONE OF THE, ONE OF MY LEAST FAVOURITE THINGS I’VE EVER HEARD, YOU KNOW IT WAS ALMOST, I DON’T WANNA SAY IT WAS EMBARRASSING, BUT THE RECORDING IS SORT OF EMBARRASSING AND NOW ITS TURNED INTO SOMETHING JUST TOTALLY OPPOSITE – I’M JUST OVER THE MOON ABOUT HOW MUCH ITS CHANGED.
00:37:23:17 PRODUCER SO IS HE ANY GOOD?
Out at 00:37:34:10 STEVEN 100% YES HE HAS, YEAH HE IS VERY GOOD. HE HAS THIS RAW EMOTION OF HIM SINGING AND PLAYING GUITAR
00:37:34:15 Out at 00:38:00:10 WANER 100% TO BE HONEST, THIS IS WHAT I PREFER TO DO. NO ONLY KIDDING. ITS QUITE EASY, THE TRANSITION IS NOT MUCH, NOT MUCH OF A DIFFICULTY AT ALL. RIGHT NOW WE ARE GOING ALONG FOR THE RIDE, WE ARE MAKING MUSIC, WE HOPE TO MAKE AN ALBUM. AND WE’LL SEE WHERE IT GOES. I’M NOT SURE I DON’T REALLY HAVE ANY GAME PLAN. BECAUSE I DO HAVE A DAY JOB THAT TAKES UP MOST OF MY TIME.
00:38:03:07 PRODUCER WHERE DO YOU SEE THIS MARRIAGE GOING?
00:38:05:18 Out at 00:38:19:08 WANER 100% WELL YOU KNOW STEVE IS A WELL KNOWN PRODUCER, HES BECOMING MORE AND MORE WELL KNOWN AND PRETTY SOON HE PROBABLY WONT HAVE ANY TIME FOR ME BUT FOR THE TIME BEING, WE ARE HAVING A LOT OF FUN.
00:38:31:05 WANER 100% HI LOOK AT THAT SMILE, MY GOSH SHE LOOKS SO GOOD!
00:38:40:10 EVA 100% SHE SAID YOU ARE A MAGICIAN WANER 100% NO IM NOT A MAGICIAN BUT SHES DONE VERY NICELY - EVERYTHING IS GOING VERY WELL.
Out at 00:39:00:24 WANER 100% WE’VE STILL GOT A LONG WAY TO GO, WITH SWELLING AND MAYBE MORE SURGERY, SHE’S GONNA LOOK ALMOST COMPLETELY NORMAL. SHE’LL LOOK MUCH, MUCH BETTER.
00:39:08:02 WANER OKAY LASER IS ON, LETS GO
00:39:16:10 V/O DR WANER IS BACK IN SCRUBS, SQUEEZING IN AS MUCH SURGERY AS HE CAN.
00:39:26:05 Out at 00:39:41:06 WANER 100% I HAVE AN APPOINTMENT AT 9 OCLOCK, I’LL BE DONE BY 930 CAN I GO SOMEWHERE BEFORE THE NEXT CASE? CAN WE DO THAT? THAT WOULD HELP ME OUT A HELL OF A LOT. OKAY?
00:39:43:10 Out at 00:40:02:12 WANER 100% HI OKAY EVERYTHING IS GOOD, THE STITCHES ARE OUT AND I DID LASER TREATMENT NOW YOU WILL SEE THE BLOOD VESSELS ARE DARKER - OVER THE NEXT TWO OR THREE WEEKS THEY SHOULD DISAPPEAR
Upsot ALA SCREAMING
00:40:05:22 Out at 00:40:16:14 V/O TREATMENT FOR AND RECOVERY FROM HAEMANGIOMAS IS LONG AND ITS SLOW. BUT THIS SHOULD BE THE END OF THE ROAD FOR KRISTEN.
00:40:19:09 MICHELLE E 100% TRY TO KEEP STILL SWEETHEART. WANER 100% ALMOST THERE MICHELLE E 100% SO YOU HAPPY? KRISTEN 100% YES
00:40:42:10 Out at 00:40:58:00 WANER 100% ALLRIGHT YOUNG LADY, WE ARE IN GOOD SHAPE. YOU ARE GOOD TO GO AND NEXT TIME I SEE YOU MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A NICE PAIR OF EARRINGS AND I’LL PUT THEM IN OKAY? MICHELLE DEFINITELY WANER AND IF YOU WANT A TONGUE RING OR A NOSE RING, JUST LET ME KNOW OKAY? MICHELLE NUH!
00:41:01:17 Out at 00:41:06:21 V/O NEW FRIENDSHIPS ARE CEMENTED AND ITS TIME FOR ONE LAST CHECK UP BEFORE THE CHILDREN FLY HOME.
00:41:07:17 Out at 00:41:15:02 WANER 100% COME OVER HERE KRISTEN, AND ALA COME OVER HERE THIS SIDE. ALL RIGHT HERE ARE MY TWO FRIENDS. ALLRIGHT.
00:41:24:19 Out at 00:41:33:08 V/O BUT THERE IS TIME FOR A SMALL REWARD BEFORE BOARDING THEIR FLIGHTS LEGENDARY AMERICAN TOY STORE FAO SCHWARZ OPENING ITS DOORS TO ALA AND KRISTEN.
00:41:33:11 UPSOT CHILDREN IN STORE
00:42:01:09 Out at 00:42:07:22 MICHELLE I’M JUST SO HAPPY FOR HER THAT’S SHE’S FINALLY GOT WHAT SHE WANTS AND WE’RE PRETTY MUCH THROUGH IT ALL NOW, ITS GREAT.
00:42:08:10 Out at 00:42:13:19 V/O AND THAT MEANS AN END TO THE BULLYING THAT AT ONE STAGE FORCED KRISTEN TO CHANGE SCHOOLS.
00:42:15:09 MICHELLE E 100% SHE’S CHANGED COMPLETELY. SHE WAS YEAH, WHEN SHE WAS SMALLER – SHE WAS, EVEN THOUGH SHE WAS, EVEN BEFORE SHE COULD TALK – SHE WAS AWARE THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG AND SHE’D HAVE A TENDENCY TO HIDE THAT SIDE OF HER FACE. AND NOW I MEAN YOU ASK ANYBODY AT HER SCHOOL, EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE HER BEST FRIEND. SHE’S VERY POPULAR, SHE’S SECOND IN HER CLASS, EVERYBODY LOVES HER AND ITS ALL GOOD.
Out at 00:42:53:23 SOME PEOPLE COULD BE VERY CRUEL AND VERY RUDE. SOME PEOPLE WERE SYMPATHETIC. BUT YEAH THERE WERE QUITE A FEW UPSETTING MOMENTS, THAT I JUST DECIDED IT WAS EASIER TO STAY AT HOME THAN TO GO OUT IN PUBLIC.
00:42:54:22 EVA ‘S TRANSLATOR SO SHE DIDN’T APPEAR IN PUBLIC PLACES VERY OFTEN. SHE DIDN’T GO TO CINEMAS, TO PLAYGROUNDS, SHE DIDN’T HAVE CONTACT WITH YOUNG CHILDREN. IT WAS MAYBE THE CASE OF ALA, ALA’S REACTION BUT OF HER MOTHERS. BECAUSE SHE WAS VERY UPSET WHEN PEOPLE WERE ASKING HER QUESTIONS ABOUT THE HAEMANGIOMA SO SHE DIDN’T, SHE WANTED TO PROTECT ALA FROM THIS REACTION.
Out at 00:43:40:15 EVA’S TRANSLATOR FOR A YEAR OR HALF A YEAR SHE HAVE BEEN ASKING WHEN IS DR WANER, WHEN THIS MAGICIAN IS GOING TO TAKE THIS OUT? AND NOW SHE LOOKED IN THE MIRROR YESTERDAY AND SHE WAS VERY, SHE WAS VERY, SHE LIKED IT VERY MUCH.
00:43:41:05 Out at 00:43:53:24 V/O EVA CAN NOW GO BACK TO WORK FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FIVE YEARS, AND ALA CAN GO TO PRESCHOOL. EVA THINKS EVERYTHING WILL NOW CHANGE, WITH ALA NO LONGER THE CENTRE OF ATTENTION IN THE FAMILY. MICHELLE CAN GUARANTEE IT!
00:43:55:01 Out at 00:44:09:07 MICHELLE E SHE’S VERY MUCH THE BOSS WHEN IT COMES TO HER SIBLINGS AND YEAH SHE THINKS SHE IS IN CONTROL AND SHE GETS THEM TO DO THINGS THE WAY SHE WANTS THEM SOMETIMES AND I’M GOING TO HAVE TO PULL HER INTO LINE A LITTLE BIT WHEN THIS IS ALL OVER.
00:44:10:00 Out at 00:44:17:10 (TRANSLATOR IN POLISH) EVA 100% YES (LAUGHING)
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0:44:22:11 Out at 00:44:27:16 V/O FIVE MONTHS LATER AND TWO VERY DIFFERENT GIRLS CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS – WORLDS APART.
00:44:28:00 Out at 00:44:34:23 KRISTEN HI DOCTOR WANER ITS KRISTEN I JUST WANTED TO SAY HAPPY CHRISTMAS
00:44:35:19 Out at 00:44:47:17 V/O THEIR LONG AND DIFFICULT JOURNEYS HAVE FINALLY REALISED SOMETHING WE ALL TAKE FOR GRANTED – THE CHANCE AT A NORMAL LIFE. THANKS TO THE WORLDS ONLY GLOBAL ROCKING MEDICO – DR MILTON WANER.
00:44:48:15 Out at 00:45:00:05 MICHELLE E BUT YEAH IT IS WORTH THE FIGHT. IT CAN BE VERY HARD, EXTREMELY EMOTIONAL, VERY HARD ON YOUR RELATIONSHIPS, ON YOUR FAMILY, IF YOU HAVE OTHER CHILDREN. BUT IT’S ALL WORTH IT IN THE END.
00:45:01:03 Out at 00:45:13:04 V/O KRISTEN AND HER HERO DR WANER MIGHT LIVE ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE PLANET ….BUT SHE, LIKE ALL OF HIS PATIENTS, WILL NEVER FORGET THE MAN WHO TRULY MADE ALL OF HER DREAMS COME TRUE.
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00:45:24:22 Out at 00:45:54:19 DIRECTED, PRODUCED AND WRITTEN BY MICHELLE STONE CAMERA OPERATORS PETER VIDULICH, PVTV ADAM VARDY RORY MCLEES EDITOR BAZ LEFFLER POST PRODUCTION LEFFLER POST COMPOSERS JIM HARE CRAIG SUE ADDITONAL ORIGINAL MUSIC DR MILTON WANER SCRIPT CONSULTANT LYNDAL DAVIES LOCATION CONSULTANT – NEW YORK CITY CATHERINE COUNIHAN ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE COURTESY NETWORK TEN AUSTRALIA THANKS TO: DR MILTON WANER MICHELLE AND KRISTEN EARNEY AND THE EARNEY FAMILY EVA, ROBERT AND ALA WASOWSKA THE KUEHL FAMILY GEOFF, BILL AND BETTY RITCHIE JANNA BROWN HUIE VASCULAR BIRTHMARKS FOUNDATION LINDA ROZELL-SHANNON QANTAS AIRLINES BELINDA DE ROME LLOYD QUARTERMAINE BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTRE, NEW YORK CITY CAROL RUBIANO FAO SCHWARZ NANETTE DI FALCO AND ROY REARDON JR STEPHEN LEVITIN, THE APPLE JUICE KID
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