Nineteen-year-old Petra is a bubbly up and coming video blogger and writer from Wellington. She’s passionate about sharing her story with the world and it’s no wonder. Having beaten cancer as a child Petra now has paraneoplastic syndrome, a rare condition which has had her confined to her bedroom and a hospital bed for most of the past two years. It isn’t easy. She wants nothing more than to get out in the world and live life to the full.

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