The nursing staff at Red Cross gave her another 20 years

Published on

12 May 2025

Today is International Nurses Day with the theme being “Our Nurses. Our Future”. One of our callers who is a nurse phoned in to tell us about her journey and showed just how much of a calling the profession is.

A nurse helped give her 20 more years in life

Don phoned in to talk about his late daughter Ashlee. He explained that they would never have been able to spend the time they did have if it wasn’t for the nursing staff at Red Cross Children’s Hospital.

Every year on Ashlee’s birthday, Don and his wife collect teddy bears and distribute them to children in hospital. We thank Don and his family for courage to share this with us.

Ashlee Ann Young on her 4th birthday visiting one of her favourite nurses | Supplied

Phil de Lange

Phil de Lange is the producer of the Ryan O'Connor Breakfast show and has been with Smile 90.4FM since it's inception in 2013. Through his work on the breakfast show he has won two national radio awards. He has been in broadcasting for 15 years and has honed his talent at 6 different radio stations. Outside of radio he is also a podcast producer and award winning stand-up comedian.