Nightingale hospital at the height of the pandemic. She had left the register in 2018, after 20 years as a paediatric nurse, but like thousands of others, had rejoined to help out.
Every evening for nearly eight weeks she would come home after a 12-hour shift as the lead nurse for compassionate care, disinfect her car with antiviral spray and go into her flat, spraying doors down as she went.
She’d shout up at her children to stay in their bedrooms, then shower, clean her shoes and everything she had touched, and put all her clothes in the washing machine.Often she cried in the shower, thinking about the devastating events of the day, but then she’d come out of the bathroom and hug her children. ‘And they were big hugs,’ she says. ‘It was.
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