Sara defies ill health for daredevil skydive

A YOUNG mum took a giant leap for charity after battling a string of health problems.

Sara Dickens (27) threw herself out of a plane at 13,000-ft after deciding to raise money for charity after suffering a miscarriage earlier this year.

And it came just seven months after she was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease and had six feet of her bowel removed at Rotherham General Hospital.

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Sara said that her experiences had inspired her to help others and she her sponsored parachute jump raised £500 for Baby LifeLine.

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“When you go through something like that, it really makes you think a bit more and consider other people,” she said.

Sara, who has a 21-month-old daughter, Ella, described her skydive at Langer airfield near Nottingham as “amazing.”

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But she admitted: “I didn’t sleep the night before. At first I was terrified because I had never done anything like it before. It was such a surreal feeling. I didn’t dare to look down.

Sara said that she had enjoyed her experience so much that she was thinking of giving it another go.

“You could say that I'm a bit hooked,” she said. “I would definitely do it again, it was just that feeling that I got when I was up there. I think I’ve turned into a bit of an adrenaline junkie.”

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