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The Thursday evening celebration of the NHS workers has caused a surge of arrivals in A& E, Dr John Wright , Bradford Royal Infirmary, writes in his regular diary. And below he tells The Story of one of these workers, a nurse, suffered severely from The Virus , but was discharged, just In Time for her son s first birthday.

2. May 2020

on Thursday evening for care of people will clap louder and More Joyous every week. It is a deeply moving tribute that captures the essence of our spirit in These Times of need. It is also the only time that the communities come together and create a rare feeling of letting go and togetherness, a gentle reminder of an earlier era.

But to clap when the people disappeared, we have seen interesting small peaks in the accident rates that we had not anticipated.

the people may need to be a little more careful, especially if You ' sit ve been the whole day And Then You get to clap up. It may be the only time that the elderly Come Outside and the risk of falls, and I would just remind people to Take Care of.

"The clapping for carers has us do a little more," Says Richard Pilling, consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Harrogate District Hospital.

"It is Very Nice that everyone is excited about the to show support, but it's escalated, so that people come from banging pans and see who can clap the loudest, and there the accidents are.

"It's nice to walk to your front door and You show appreciation, it is A Chance to see your neighbors, and it is nice to see people sticking together during the lockdown. They just do it less vigorously - You don't have to be the loudest on The Street . "

Clapping injuries

Ella Simkin, 23, went with her parents to clap on Thursday in their Home in South London , and to jump decided to on a raised concrete flower bed to get a better view of all the neighbors.

She misses You , and all of a sudden this sharp pain was there," She Says .

Ella Simkin, and her father in A& E at St George's hospital, Tooting

"cut It in slices in my knee - I didn't realize jeans, and I at first, but it was bleeding a lot and we went to accident and emergency.

"I was very embarrassed when we got there. If I went for the X-ray, I told them I had the clap when it happens. Everyone found it very funny and a lot of people said, my heart was in The Right place. "

Richard pointed out that Some People have trained More Than usual, during the lockdown, but others have stopped to train, and problems can occur if You suddenly Get Up and clap. You can fall and break a bone, for example.

Some People come to The Hospital immediately after the clap, the other later in the evening, after the experiment, and not to their injury At Home .

"If You say to try and keep the pressure of the NHS, to increase the work load, if we really want to avoid that to happen," Richard. "I think people need to Be Careful , and just a little bit slower, if You go on the road. "

Despite the precautions taken in our hospitals, the health workers have sometimes Covid-19 catch - and fits even Young People without prior health problems may find yourself in need of hospital treatment. Palliative-care-nurse Kelly Ward , at the Age Of 35, was on the lookout for older Covid patients in a neighboring Bradford hospital, to feel when they began, out of breath, at The End of a shift in a day.

by The Time She came Home , She had a fever, and the next day She was taken to The Hospital sick, to breathe hardly.

Front-line-diary

Prof John Wright , a physician and epidemiologist, is head of the Bradford Institute for Health Research, and a veteran of cholera, HIV and Ebola epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa. He writes the diary for the Bbc News and the recording of The Hospital departments for BBC Radio 4 The NHS Front

She was on a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine, which is our. It blows the air into the lungs, keep them inflated, but The Feeling is unpleasant and The Mask needed for the machine to work, can make people feel claustrophobic. Some of our patients just will not tolerate.

"at first, I panicked, I'm not going to be reported lies," Kelly told me that if I had visited them on The Ward for 10 days.

"I've never had anything like that and I tolerate it maybe for an hour or two, and I was fine. And Then , I have not told doctors about the night that I don't with it on it was so overwhelming. It felt like I had no control over what was going on in my lungs, even if I know it has helped me. I felt like I couldn't breathe.

"And One of The Doctors gave me to talk about strict, and said, 'You don't know, if You have to go to they go Downhill . 'So I had it again. "

Kelly Ward give the thumbs up

You Stand on order with him for the rest of The Day , but the next morning - The Day we met - She started to panic again and rejected it.

fortunately, in this stage, Dr. Paul Whitaker, a consultant in respiratory medicine, felt She had turned a corner, and might soon be discontinued from oxygen. Kelly agreed. They admitted that there was a moment during their first 48 Hours in The Hospital , if She thought She could die, but in this moment had passed.

But, I was a witness to Dr. Whitaker's talk of another patient, A Woman in the early 70s who had tried CPAP and just couldn't do it again.

He asked her if She would use it, if it's a case of life or death. "No," was The Answer .

"It's not what would My Family , but it is not your decision," She Said .

Then She added: "I know I'm not one to give You a lot of opportunity to Help Me . "

She died a few days later.

Kelly, to continue to improve, however. It was their goal it Home In Time for her son's first birthday on Sunday, may 3. May, and I'm happy to say, She was well enough to be discharged on Friday.

In our experience, it is people who are a long-term recovery from Covid-19. Kelly is still quite out of breath, and said to me, The Stairs of the crawl had to climb up on her hands and knees. At The Top You had to stop and take a breath, before continuing on to her bedroom.

"I'm out of breath, exhausted, but really happy At Home ," She Says .

"It was much harder than I had expected. I had not expected to feel, how weak, how I do it. It is really out of me, it really has. I've been down once and spent the rest of The Time in bed. "

Kelly's son is So Young , he may not have been detected because they would have been gone. To see your eight-year-old daughter, however, tears of joy, that their mother again.

"My Daughter knows I'm bad and I'm getting better and better. You know, it is not prohibited to take a while, until I scared me again Full Force , but She is," Kelly. "When this all started, I was very open with her and told her I was looking for very bad people, because everyone in the NHS was. It was hard and She is very, very good. "

"Next Thursday, if all comes to The City , to clap, You will clap For You , Kelly," I told her.

"I'm going to clap for every single person in the NHS," She answered. "Everyone was incredibly. My Life was saved and I am so, so grateful. "

Two other patients were discharged. A week ago, a couple in their 60s who have been together from the Age Of 13, and were in The Hospital with Covid-19.

Mary was finally able to leave The Hospital today. Her son Craig, Says Michael stood at the gate waiting For You after You rang to say that She was leaving.

Then, when it was impossible to fish and chips, which She had been waiting for, for so long, Michael made her scrambled eggs. Another Covid-19 patients, is very pleased to be At Home - and who thought at one point that it might never happen.

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