Campaigning district nurse from Wishaw is thanked for being an amazing supportive friend

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A district nurse from Overtown is the latest recipient of the Wishaw Press’ Say it with Flowers award.Monica Sheen, along with three other Lanarkshire mums, launched a campaign to prevent the downgrade of the neonatal intensive care unit at University Hospital Wishaw.All four gave birth to tiny premature babies who were then cared for at the unit.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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She is also an amazing friend, and so caring and considerate. She’s just a really strong and inspirational lady. "The strength that she’s shown throughout her son Alfie’s journey and throughout the campaign is incredible.

We are constantly opening ourselves and our trauma up to people we don’t even know, and she’s had to do that over and over to get the point across.“Monica is just such a beautiful person inside and out.