12/12/2019
The news has published a lot of people-in-hospital photos in the last week. Here’s one of my many - taken a little over a year ago. We’ve been incredibly lucky - we’ve seen the at it’s absolute best, we couldn’t have bought better care anywhere in the world, not even if we were billionaires. That’s not to say everything was perfect, my daughter had 5 hospital admissions in 9 months, one through A&E when they were so busy, we were put in the little room where they give parents bad news (we couldn’t sit in the waiting room as my daughter had no functioning immune system at the time). We were finally admitted to her ‘home’ ward (haemotology/oncology) at 1am. My daughter is now in remission and has been back at school since September. Sometimes it feels like a miracle, but it wasn’t a magic at all, it was the hard work of of everyone at Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, from cleaners to consultants. These wonderful people are working in increasingly difficult circumstances, voting will ease that burden.
Bonus picture, taken a year after the first, featuring our much respected, hardworking Labour MP .green.su @ Royal Manchester Children's Hospital Charity
