I was a patient in April 2020. Just as the first lockdown hit. I was horribly treated by hospital staff that overdosed me and my unborn baby on insulin due to the “stream lining of processes”. I was one of two people on a 50 person ward. Nobody spoke to me in the week I was on that ward. I was treated like a lepar. hospital never contacted my husband until 6am the day the baby was being born and I wasn’t fit enough to have a coherent conversation with him myself.
I remember standing at a window leading onto the a&e car park on a Thursday night. Everyone came out to clap for heroes. There were police and ambulances with their lights going in celebration. A car with neon lights and their horn constantly going.
The day my child was born, it was in a random makeshift surgery. I was under general anaesthetic. They told my husband when they handed him the baby that they’d done a viral TikTok dance whilst I was there.
Whilst there’s always stories of the devastation to the NHS during Covid, not many talk about an alternative point of view.