Highest admiration for Wexham Hospital staff

At 3pm on December 18 I took my husband Geoff, aged 89, for his first COVID jab to Salthill Park Community Centre.

We had no more contact with the outside world until I picked up Christmas food on December 22.

Geoff felt unwell two days after is jab with flu type aches and just wanted to sleep.

I started feeling unwell on Christmas

Eve.

We ached all over and were off our food, but struggled through till Boxing Day when I rang 111.

A doctor came and left a prescription for anti-biotics.

The following morning I felt worse, with sickness and diarrhoea.

111 sent an ambulance; the very young team was magnificent, efficient and caring. They took me to Wexham Park Hospital. A swab established COVID pneumonitis. Two days later I went home.

On New Year’s Day we both struggled to breathe.

111 sent another ambulance with an equally efficient young team.

They soon requested a second ambulance and took us both to Wexham.

Geoff went home again on January 3, we spoke on the phone in the evening, but next morning I could not get a reply.

By 11 am I alerted a neighbour with a key, but the police had to be called as

Geoff had put the security chain on.

They found him in bed semi-conscious. He had a stroke and was unable to speak.

This time the ambulance took five hours to arrive.

He is now making good progress at Wexham, and I have been resting and recovering at home since Friday, January 8.

The experience has left me with the highest admiration for the staff at Wexham Park Hospital.

Everybody, from the porters to the consultants, was super efficient, caring, kind and ever helpful.

Not once did they let their ‘masks’ slip to show the relentless pressure they were under, the patients always came first, second and last.

BRIGITTE MITCHELL Upton Park

Slough