The Olympic Torch has brightened up children’s units at Queen’s Hospital in Romford.
Torchbearer Aimee Sell - who carried the Olympic Flame into Romford Market on its epic journey to the Olympic Stadium - brought her torch in to show young patients and staff at the Tropical Lagoon ward and paediatric outpatients department.
Aimee has had plenty of experience as a hospital patient, after undergoing six operations to remove glass from her eye.
Her brother was also treated for a brain tumour at Queen’s, in Rom Valley Way.
Seventeen-year-old Aimee: “I know what it is like to spend time in hospital, and I just thought that some of the patients might like the chance to hold an Olympic torch.”
Aimee was chosen take part in the Torch relay after becoming one of the country’s leading young competitors in karate.
Despite the problems with her eye, she became a black belt at the age of 12 and has been crowned both English and British National Champion.
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