Jamie Branagan 🇮🇪🏴
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Ex-nurse, Covid and ICU survivor, straight talking (a bit sweary) husband and father. Battered by LC and PTSD. Writing a book, but keep getting distracted.
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I need to get a shimmy on and make a real dent in this again. PTSD and anxiety are huge writer’s block fodder. 😔
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@carolvorders
@DanNeidle
About PPE. I was a nurse during the first wave. Given 1 paper mask for a whole shift with 38 positive patients. No other protection available. My viral upload was huge. 5 weeks on a ventilator. Now permanently disabled and will never work again. And she thinks she’s had it hard?
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@MichaelRosenYes
I’m a nurse who was ventilated. Right before they put me out, my consultant told me that only one in five of patients in my situation were surviving ventilation. That was my last thought. But I had no other option. If they didn’t ventilate, I would’ve been dead in 10 minutes.
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@Nurseborisbash
I managed at home for a week. Felt ‘fluey’ with a lack of smell.
Angharad ordered on oximeter from Amazon and put it on my finger as soon as it arrived. Sats were 72%. I felt perfectly fine.
ICU and ventilated five days later.
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Exactly 1 week after waking from my coma, I was being discharged home.
I’d learned to walk, talk and eat all over again.
I wanted home and nothing was going to stop me.
This is me adding my name to the top of the Covid discharge tree.
Far too many were buried beneath it. 😔
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@carolvorders
@DanNeidle
Hi Carol,
This needs to be shared if only to expose this government for what they really are. I have been left in the gutter through trying to save lives.
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@KDogg0_o
Frontline nurse here. My pictures are six weeks apart. Was given inadequate PPE and told to nurse 38 Covid positive patients (private sector nursing home). Huge viral upload. Spent 34 days ventilated. Now permanently disabled and a career in tatters. Left to rot by the tories.
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@fesshole
Way to go. Bullshit though, considering it’s only available on draught in trial pubs until November 2024.
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@carolvorders
What exactly are they ‘investing’ in? 🤷🏻
Or is it a case of lining director’s pockets as usual?
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@BladeoftheS
@RuthHatton11
Here’s what poor PPE provision did to me. Frontline nurse who was given one mask for a whole shift with 38 positive patients.
34 days ventilated in ICU.
Permanently disabled now and a nursing career ruined.
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I’m going in. I have my wife beside me. If you know how difficult this was for us all, then you’ll know how difficult this is for me.
#BREATHTAKING
@doctor_oxford
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Thank you to everyone that has recently followed off the back of a very random comment on Carol Vorderman’s recent post.
Talk about explosive?
You have all given me the proverbial kick up the arse I needed to get shit done.
So, er….. Sláinte for that. 😉👍🏼
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@kentish_made
@e2130
These two pictures were taken on the same day. 15th May 2020 during a full lockdown. One is of Boris and his staff drinking wine in the DS garden. The other is of me fully ventilated in ICU at the RGH in Newport after catching Covid whilst nursing on the frontline.
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@Nurseborisbash
Turned up for ‘that’ shift. One paper mask with 38 positive patients. Half of them ambulant but living with dementia and wandersome.
If I refused to work, my PIN was at risk.
My viral upload was huge.
Cheers Matt and BoJo. Thanks for the ‘protective ring’ 😡
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@carolvorders
@Conservatives
A loathsome, vile creature. I remember him jeering and laughing whilst refusing to wear a mask during PMQ’s in the first wave. So disrespectful to all who died and suffered.
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@i_iratus
@carolvorders
In April 2020 I was set upon by a bunch of immigrants. They pumped me full of drugs, cut me to ribbons and probed me for 34 days.
Forgot to say they were ICU healthcare staff and they saved my life.
And James wants to separate them from their families?
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@Nurseborisbash
@SangitaMyska
Ex-nurse here. Spent 5 weeks in a coma due to inadequate PPE. Permanently disabled now and will never work again. If I had better protection and support, I may still be working.
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04/06/20
Two days after waking up. Learning to walk again. Vocal cords still paralysed. Still unable to take anything orally so NG tube in situ. Still reliant on supplementary oxygen.
But fuck me, I’m determined to get home.
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@sullivansa1
@carolvorders
@DanNeidle
@Nurseborisbash
I follow
@Nurseborisbash
and we have shared our experiences. I feel that we are only a very small percentage. But mice can roar loudly collectively if there are enough of us.
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@refusen05766521
@MichaelRosenYes
I was ill at home for a week before spending five days in hospital trying every clinical intervention under the sun to get my O2 levels up.
Do you think I just waltzed in and asked for a fucking great big tube to be shoved down my trachea?
Idiot.
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@GrantGuitar
@carolvorders
@DanNeidle
I was actually in a nurse consultancy role in the private sector when the pandemic first broke. Wanted to assist ‘on the coalface’ so to speak, as I knew that it would get a little testy, so joined an agency. Little did I know how it would impact.
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I’m going to sit down with Angharad and watch
#BREATHTAKING
once the trending has eased off a little. Even after four years, what happened to me is very raw.
It’s going to be tough, but fuck me, I’ve been ventilated. I’m a warrior. 👊🏼🙌🏼
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@dr_musgrave
I was initially pragmatic too. Until I had to nurse 38 positive patients with just one paper mask for the whole shift.
Huge viral upload and 34 days ventilated.
Fit and healthy prior.
Now permanently disabled.
Glad you had it mild, but count yourself lucky.
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So.
@MichaelRosenYes
reposted a tweet of mine earlier today. Off the back of that, I could see first hand the vast amount of Vitriolic trolls that he is undoubtedly subjected to each day. Literally just for being unwell.
There’s no need for people to be so cruel to each other.
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@NdlovuVincentia
@fesshole
You mean I spent five weeks ventilated and in a coma for nothing? Why didn’t you say this at the time? 🤷🏻
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@MichaelRosenYes
@GMB
I posted a clip of me learning to walk again after ICU. Someone claimed that I was a heart attack patient because I had a blue vein down my arm. It was my tattoo. Even when shown, she was convinced I was a paid actor. 🤷🏻
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@carolvorders
thank you so much for sharing my post yesterday. Complex PTSD makes it incredibly difficult to find the desire work on my book, but your share reignited that fire.
What you’re doing is amazing and inspirational and it WILL make huge differences to our way of life.
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@carolvorders
That one mask given to me to last a whole shift with 38 positive patients has actually become the cover of my book. It was the same shift I caught Covid l. I didn’t realise the enormity of the picture that I took so innocently to show my wife what we were faced with at the time.
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@Nat_E_Pearson
@carolvorders
@DanNeidle
@SupportingHH_UK
Just sharing this story is the only way I feel we can make a difference. Nothing will change my life now and I’m adjusting to the new me, but if we can guarantee a better response for the next time, maybe less people will suffer.
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These pictures sit beside each other in my phone timeline. But there’s 5 weeks between each of them. Classic before and after I suppose.
5 weeks of ventilation, sepsis, collapsing lungs, cardiac arrest, multiple organ failure and 24kg weight loss.
But I won.
Fuck you covid. 🖕🏼
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Today is obviously a blocking day for trolls.
Yes. She was 92. But that is immaterial. She had every right to dignity at death, the same right as any other person.
Some of the blocked replies to this tweet are vile.
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I’m at the stage where I need to approach publishers for this.
Any advice please? It’s my Covid story (nurse on frontline who nearly died) and I need to get it on the shelves.
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Can I just say that, as a Nurse, I didn’t upload any clips to TikTok of me or colleagues dancing during the pandemic?
But I fucking would’ve done if it would’ve helped to relieve the stress, anxiety and fear we all felt at the time.
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@BikerBham
@carolvorders
@DanNeidle
Lungs are shot to bits with chronic scarring. Battling Complex PTSD constantly.
Trying to survive on UC and PIP.
But I’m upright and I have a pulse. My children still have their father and my wife has her husband.
Others are not so lucky.
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I make no apologies for this picture and only have pride.
I’m a long way from where I was, but far short of where I should be. However, I’m not a memory for my wife and children.
Thank you to everyone who managed to keep me alive.
The day after discharge (10/06/20) V’s now.
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@CllrDalton
@MichaelRosenYes
I think you need to be grateful that the Nightingales were never used.
And they haven’t stopped ventilating patients. It’s still happening.
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If you ever come across Covid denialists in comments, you have my permission to use this picture of me. To the left is before I caught Covid. To the right is the result. I’ll never be that person on the left again.
Its not just a ‘cold’
It’s real.
It kills.
I was very lucky.
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@i_iratus
He accuses this MP of faking it, when there’s a studio light on his Twitter landscape cover photo.
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The cover photo was taken the day I became infected. I had arrived on shift and was handed 1 mask for 13 hours and 38 positive patients. I took this photo to send to my wife voicing my concerns. 3 days later I was symptomatic and in a coma 2 weeks on.
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@carolvorders
A personal inspiration for me. We shared so many similar stops on our journeys, but Derek’s course had many more obstacles. Sincere condolences to Kate and the rest of his amazing family and friends.
RIP Derek. 😔
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@AndrewLeeGough
@LozzaFox
I think you’ll find that homosexual couples can have families? Maybe not in a biological sense, but from a legal standing, society has kind of gotten round that.
If you can’t see beyond what is essentially a sexual act, then you’re the one with the issues.
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@griseldamussett
ICU and respiratory ward (C6 West) at The Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport, South Wales.
Amazing, skilled and dedicated healthcare staff. Some of those who so intimately saved my life are very close friends today.
NHS staff are still being shafted by this rancid government.
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@ZeGreenCandle
@localnotail
@fesshole
Silly me for pretending to be in a coma for five weeks then. 🤷🏻
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@fesshole
If it was food poisoning, then everyone ordering would be affected.
You have an aversion to something specific they use.
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Taken from the introduction. It explains the book title.
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@Nurseborisbash
I was driving 50 miles + each way for each assignment. Nurses were like hens teeth back then. Some were living at homes they worked in. Agency were used to give them a break. But PPE was pretty much nonexistent.
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@SimBitsUK
@GBGreatAgain
Does not indicate a bad person? 🤣
Okay. And Fred West was a cracking builder to be fair.
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@jamesbryant73
@MichaelRosenYes
You’re an absolute warrior. Never forget that. As brave as they come. 👊🏼🙌🏼
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After waking, my taste was still affected by Covid. Everything that touched my lips tasted rancid except for bacon. So for 8 weeks I lived off that (with some potato cakes for carbs and halloumi) until I could retrain my brain. The first glass of wine I could keep down was bliss.
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@Nurseborisbash
Right with you Karen. And I hear you on the awakenings too.
I watched it all last night and my PTSD is raging today. Trying to keep myself occupied, but my mind keeps wandering back.
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@McBlue1962
@BikerBham
@carolvorders
@DanNeidle
These two pictures were taken on the same day. 15th May 2020 during a full lockdown. One is of Boris and his staff drinking wine in the DS garden. The other is of me fully ventilated in ICU at the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport. I had a cardiac arrest a few days later.
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#BREATHTAKING
Still haven’t watched it. Not ready yet. But I’m seeing a pattern in comments.
‘Sorry you suffered’. ‘Sorry this happened to you’.
For some of us, it’s not past tense. The pain continues.
Every
Single
Fucking
Day.
#longcovid
#icutrauma
#survivednotrecovered
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@Celia3D
@genericeddie
@MichaelRosenYes
It was nothing to do with vitamin deficiency. It was my viral upload. Given one paper mask for the whole shift nursing 38 positive cases. All thanks to poor PPE provision by this inept government.
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I had forgotten about this clip.
27/04/20
Full mask C-PAP.
Three days before ventilation in ICU at RGH in Newport.
Can’t say they didn’t try everything. 🤷🏻
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@KingBettingking
@carolvorders
@DanNeidle
I’m sorry. I can’t remember you following me round for all those shifts? 🤷🏻
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@Foxelms
@Nurseborisbash
Survived. I’m far from recovered. But thank you for the sentiment. ❤️
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@fesshole
I worked as a nurse on the frontline during the first wave and spent five weeks in a coma due to a massive viral upload. Now permanently disabled and I’ll never work again.
Cheers Covid.
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@Wearablez
@KDogg0_o
I tried to manage Covid at home but went in to silent hypoxia (sats were 72%). Then 4 days on respiratory ward with every intervention possible. Ran out of options. The virus was just relentless.
Placed my life into the hands of the medical team and they repaid my faith. Heroes.
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@jed_mercurio
@ITVX
Not going to lie Jed, it was a tough watch. But it filled a lot of gaps for me. Thank you for such vital TV.
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@Nurseborisbash
@SangitaMyska
I was ventilated for 34 days. My consultant deliberated for 5 minutes before deciding to ventilate me. Not because she didn’t think I needed it, but because she thought that someone needed it more. She basically decided that I was worth a 1 in 5 chance. That’s hard to take in.
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Just finished the closing paragraph of Chapter two, when I was ventilated.
That was a fucking tough write. Head is now full of unwanted thoughts and raw emotion. Thank God for wine.
Snippet.
By the way, ’Theresa’ is not a secret lover? She was my critical care consultant.
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@AlisonMitc38746
@kentish_made
@e2130
I’m so sorry for your awful loss. That’s another thing that eats me up. Survivor guilt. I was told that at one point I was the sickest person in Wales. But healthier people died and I survived. Hard to get my head around to be honest.
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@doctor_oxford
@MichaelRosenYes
Survivor guilt hard. My friends dad died in ICU in November 2020. She had turned to me for advice and support. I felt awful for being alive.
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@HelenGothel
@KateRae3
@MichaelRosenYes
And I’ll be honest, it’s probably a huge factor in me surviving. I’m a determined bugger when I set my mind to something.
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@Sillyshib
Another Covid image for you.
Six weeks in between these pictures.
I was a frontline nurse who ended up ventilated for 34 days due to poor PPE provision.
This is what the virus did to me. I consider myself lucky, but I was massively unprotected and let down by this government.
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@GrantGuitar
@carolvorders
@DanNeidle
I feel abandoned in the sense that my professional registration was forcibly surrendered because I didn’t work enough hours. Due to being ill.
No support from the NMC either. But then again, they’re a regulatory body and not a union.
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Blocked. Tried to use my discharge clip as evidence of poor infection control practice. I asked him nicely to remove it, but he kept adding ‘evidence’ to his claim.
Not what I’m posting for.
Bye.
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@genericeddie
@MichaelRosenYes
Paracetamol for pyrexia and pain, layered with NSAID’s for joint pain.
Plenty of rest and fluids.
I was fit and healthy prior. No point in preventative therapy for an unknown virus as it was back then.
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@Wearablez
@KDogg0_o
I was ten minutes from death due to type 1 respiratory failure. Google it and find out how it kills. Essentially you suffocated. My survival odds ventilated at that time were 20%. Without ventilation they were 0%
I had no choice BUT to be ventilated.
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@doctor_oxford
I’ve started to use this picture to show the effect Covid had on me during the first wave. Left is before. Right is after 34 days ventilated.
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26/06/20
1st trip out after discharge with the other half. A few essentials from Iceland during lockdown.
Tipped me out twice on the way (I’m not very good at this!), then left me outside facing away from the doors.
Looked like a shit beggar. 😉
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@mitrebarnet
@SuePTaylor
@MichaelRosenYes
I think anyone who has survived a life-threatening illness due to being ventilated will say otherwise.
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@Foxelms
@Nurseborisbash
It was full lockdown. All my wife had was FaceTime. Until staff arranged me an hour outside in the Sun after I woke up and made sure that Angharad was ‘accidentally’ walking past. This was the first time together in six weeks.
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@MichaelRosenYes
@GMB
Ironically, it’s Sanskrit and the famous Gandhi quote ‘Be the change you want to see in the world’.
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@ZeGreenCandle
@localnotail
@fesshole
It was far from unfortunate. It was unprecedented, harrowing, horrific and certainly something that I wouldn’t wish on anyone else.
Unfortunate is forgetting to put your recycling out on bin day.
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@NickHudsonCT
You do realise that, although you’re quite ‘shouty’, you’re actually a very tiny minority?
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@supertanskiii
@reece_dinsdale
Didn’t like Derek. Loved After Life.
But overall I find him intelligent and pragmatic.
There plenty of comedians out there who are less talented and more shallow.
Just my opinion of course.
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@pablo_botw
@kentish_made
@e2130
Unlucky is forgetting to put your bin out on the right day.
And my post is time comparative, nothing more.
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@MarcusFitzsimon
I’m sorry, I don’t remember you being in that corridor to see the context? You also clearly have no idea regarding acquired immunity and virology so you’re probably best not posting anything that is misleading.
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@highamnoone
@PeteKearton
The writer was a doctor on the frontline. Maybe she should’ve consulted with Dave from The Nags Head then, eh?
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@genericeddie
@MichaelRosenYes
So, you’re suggesting that I nearly died because of my choice of analgesia?
Okay then.
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@doctor_oxford
The very same night I caught the virus, I had to FaceTime a patient’s nearest relative so that he could say goodbye because he was vulnerable himself and couldn’t visit. Moments after the call, she passed away. 92 years of life and that virus stripped her of any final dignity.
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@beverleyturner
In her defence, you claim to be a news presenter, yet you work for GBeebies. 🤷🏻
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@brianmcdonagh
@fesshole
Still calling bullshit. Only just become available on draught in Ireland from November last year. Which golf club has a captains day middle of the winter? 🤷🏻
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@stonehenge2500
@MichaelRosenYes
An absolute mirror of what happened to me. I hope his recovery is going okay?
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@Joey7Barton
Mate, it’s not a crime? You’ve claimed to be able to manage a football club a few times. 🤷🏻
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Today I formatted Angharad’s account of my time in ICU. She bares her soul and you get to experience her at her most vulnerable. What you also see is her strength and resilience in not giving up on me.
It’s compelling and graphic.
I’m a very lucky man, in more ways than one.
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@long_covid
finding this account is a Godsend for me. I was a nurse during the first wave. Spent 34 days ventilated due to poor PPE provision.
Now permanently disabled with LC and ICU Trauma. A career in tatters.
I feel abandoned and left to rot.
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