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Speaker 1: Job mission with Jones and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: Only you ladies.

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Speaker 1: Well, our next guest is the trusted man you all

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Speaker 1: know behind the seven News desk. And when is not

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Speaker 1: head down, bum up in the newsroom. Well, that's unfortunate.

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Speaker 1: Here's the voice for Sydney Sick Kids Appeal, Mark Ferguson.

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Speaker 3: Hello, Hello there, Jonesy, Hello Hello Mark.

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Speaker 1: Nice to talk to you anymore. You've got your job

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Speaker 1: now you don't have to. That'sadful negotiation time. Well, the

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Speaker 1: Sydney children Hospital's Foundation Sick Kids Appeal, you are always

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Speaker 1: front and center with this. What are we doing this year?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a very very special year and it's

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Speaker 3: a very special day tomorrow because it is the very

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Speaker 3: first Sydney Sick Kids Day Appeal. We're hoping to raise

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Speaker 3: three million dollars this year. This year it encompasses nearly

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Speaker 3: all of the wonderful services that look for sick children

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Speaker 3: in Sydney. So the money is going towards the Sydney

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Speaker 3: Children's Hospital at Randwick, the Children's Hospital at Westmooth, the

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Speaker 3: wonderful work they do at their cottage for end of

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Speaker 3: life's care, even going to help emergency transport for sick newborn.

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Speaker 3: So there are so many worthy workers out there doing

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Speaker 3: a wonderful job, and we're trying to raise every dollar possible. Certainly,

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Speaker 3: tomorrow is a.

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Speaker 4: Very big day, and there's been some great stories to

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Speaker 4: come out of this as well.

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Speaker 2: The stories that we've heard would the kids, and whenever

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Speaker 2: you go into any of those hospitals, you just think, wow,

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Speaker 2: you know, how lucky are we? And particularly when I

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Speaker 2: look at the story of Jacob and Riley. Can you

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Speaker 2: tell us a bit about.

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Speaker 3: That, Mark, Yeah, that's an extraordinary story. I was fortunate

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Speaker 3: enough to go out and meet that wonderful family. So

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Speaker 3: Jacob develops the epilepsy when he was two or three.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes he's having hundreds of siezures every day. So Mum

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Speaker 3: and Dad were in the hospital in at the Westmead

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Speaker 3: Hospital constantly trying to battle one and at the same

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Speaker 3: time they had another little girl, a very healthy rival.

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Speaker 3: And in a few years later, little Riley is battling

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Speaker 3: a rare form of kidney cancer. Two kids at two

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Speaker 3: separate hospitals. Mum and Dad's sling shuffling between the two

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Speaker 3: trying to get the very best care they could, and

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Speaker 3: of course they receive that wonderful care. But their story

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Speaker 3: is just one of many families who are so reliant

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Speaker 3: on these hospitals, so religant on these workers, and they

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Speaker 3: have come forward to try and help promote the cause

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Speaker 3: and to tell their story. They've done a wonderful job

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Speaker 3: just to raise awareness and try to let the community

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Speaker 3: know what's going on behind those hospital doors and how

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Speaker 3: so easily any of us can be reliant on both services.

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Speaker 1: You know, we say how brave these children are, but

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Speaker 1: I do think there's another level of bravery, and that's

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Speaker 1: the parents of these kids. How hard is that?

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Speaker 3: You're right, you know, all you want to do when

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Speaker 3: you have children is that they grow up healthy and

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Speaker 3: they grow up happy. And not all of us get

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Speaker 3: that chance. It's you know, Travis and brook mum and

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Speaker 3: dad of Jacob and Riley. Their life has been upside down.

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Speaker 3: To think how many hours, how many days, how many

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Speaker 3: disruptions to normal family life to get those kids to

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Speaker 3: the hospital, sometimes very quickly when seizures are taking hold

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Speaker 3: and nothing can be done. They have worked tirelessly. I

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Speaker 3: remember brook Mum when I met her, telling me that

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Speaker 3: a good night was getting three hours sleep. That was

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Speaker 3: a good night, three hours sleep in her own and

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Speaker 3: that is night after night.

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Speaker 1: So what can we do night.

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Speaker 3: Left those parents behind the scenes. We can give money,

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Speaker 3: we can give as much as we can. We've got

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Speaker 3: volunteers out across the city. Tomorrow we'll be broadcasting live

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Speaker 3: from a number of the hospitals through the course of

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Speaker 3: the day. And of course the easiest way to donate

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Speaker 3: is get on the website. It's ww dot s c

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Speaker 3: HF sc HF, which stands for Sydney Children's Hospital Foundation

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Speaker 3: dot org dot au and just give as much of

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Speaker 3: you as you can, even if it's just a few dollars.

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Speaker 3: We're hoping to raise three million dollars and hopefully that

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Speaker 3: money will go to ensure that kids in hospital today

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Speaker 3: are looked after with the very best of care. And

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Speaker 3: who knows, something will go to research and maybe your

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Speaker 3: grandchildren twenty years down the line will be the benefits

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Speaker 3: of what we can give tomorrow.

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Speaker 4: That's just a shame you didn't come into the studio

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Speaker 4: today because I've set up the skate park so we

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Speaker 4: could have a skateboard off. Sure, you might be a

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Speaker 4: good roller skater, but are you a skateboard.

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Speaker 1: And then how many times do you want to be

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Speaker 1: whipped by Well.

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Speaker 4: That's a question you'd ask yourself.

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Speaker 3: I was going to come in, but your producers alerted

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Speaker 3: me to the fact that you're trying to get some

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Speaker 3: sort of revenge rate.

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Speaker 4: That's not revenge, Marc's revenge. If you if you're scared,

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Speaker 4: that's fine.

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Speaker 2: There's nothing wrong with being fearful, not scared.

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Speaker 3: It's just that your producers also time. You're not getting

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Speaker 3: any younger and I need to take it a little

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Speaker 3: bit of each other.

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Speaker 4: Mark, thank you, it's great to chalk to you for

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Speaker 4: taking it here, and donate today head to s c

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Speaker 4: HF dot org dot au, Sydney Children's Hospital Foundation

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Speaker 3: Jonesy and Amanda's