Nobody knows what's around the corner.
Life can be taken away on the turn of a sixpence.
This programme contains scenes of medical injury
But as long as there are people who are prepared
to come out of their door every morning
and try and help other people, you have got to feel hope.
PHONE RINGS Hello. Queen's.
Oh, Jesus.
Adult amber trauma call.
Been stabbed twice in the chest. PHONE RINGS
Fall from parachute, hard landing.
Collapsed on a football pitch.
Charge to 360.
Clear. Shocking.
We've got a pulse. Excellent. Yes, we've got a pulse.
Thank you very much. Please call again.
Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham...
Ay up, duckie.
Another day in paradise.
..one of the busiest A&E departments in Europe.
Whoa! SQUEALING
That, I don't think is survivable.
Have we got a new one coming in? Three minutes.
There is no room at the inn.
Do you want anything to drink? A cup of tea?
This place is awesome.
A place where life...
Ding, ding!
You're a happy band of people here. LAUGHTER
..love...
Love you, kids.
..and loss...
Can't feel anything.
..unfold every single day.
Working in A&E, you see people in those worst moments of their life.
My baby boy! I can't leave my baby boy!
But there are always stars in the black sky.
Oh, my darling.
It makes you realise how important life is,
and we should hang on to that with both hands.
Love you.
These are the stories of a nation... HE INHALES SHARPLY
..and its health service.
Thank you for everything you've done. Aw!
Suddenly, a lot of the things
that you thought mattered doesn't matter...
It's OK.
..but you're there for me and I'm there for you,
and that's a strong bond.
I'm loving you, you know. I'm loving you too.
Bless you.
I was driving down the road just around the corner
from my sister's house, and I seen people on the street.
I recognised my brother, so I just pulled up on the side.
Everybody calls him Sunny.
He's very sociable.
He knows absolutely everybody.
I saw Sunny arguing with someone.
I got out the car
and I realised someone's got a knife.
I was really scared,
thinking someone is gonna get killed,
because there was more than one knife flying around.
It was just chaos.
SIRENS WAIL
There was lights, sirens...
It was like watching crime drama coming to life.
I was absolutely terrified.
This guy was just swinging his knife at absolutely anyone
and he was chasing my brother so I shouted,
and that's when he turned round and he tried to stab me.
My brother came running and that's when my brother got stabbed.
PHONE RINGS
He jumped in to save me.
Hello. Queen's Medical Centre.
34-year-old Sunny is being rushed to Queen's Medical Centre
with multiple stab wounds.
Nurse Anne is on duty in resus.
See you soon. Bye-bye.
I'll put your standby out. Yeah.
Stabbings are difficult because you never kind
of know how severe that stabbing's gonna be
till that patient physically arrives.
It does put you on edge.
You'd want to know how many stab wounds,
where the stab wounds are. How much blood have they lost?
It's internally you need to be concerned about.
There's a lot of organs. Has it penetrated any of those?
If it has, you could have a single stab wound
that is life-threatening.
OK, this is Sunny. He's 34 years of age.
He's the victim of an assault with a bladed article,
sustaining three wounds to the left posterior shoulder,
all of about one inch in length.
And he has one wound to the left upper quadrant,
about one inch with no active bleeding.
No other injuries identified.
Treatment so far,
2.5mg of morphine and 1g of paracetamol,
and that is all. Any questions?
Fella, pop your arms up in the air for us.
Good, man.
Can you lean forward for us as well? We'll have a look at your back.
Fella, what have you been stabbed with? What sort of knife?
Kitchen knife. Do you know how big it was?
Straight edge or serrated edge?
OK.
Let's have a quick look at the bum as well.
Just... We're pretty thorough, fella.
Good, man. Lovely.
Right, shall we take you for a scan?
It's gonna look at the inside of you,
basically from your neck down to your nads,
and we'll see if you've got any injury going on in your tummy.
You got any questions at all?
No, no. Who's at home with you?
Mum, brother, sister.
It was horrible. Absolutely horrible.
There was blood everywhere.
The cuts were really deep.
I don't know where this knife came from.
He wouldn't get involved in knife crimes or things like that.
Sunny, he's not like that.
All right, so in your own time.
34-year-old Sunny has been stabbed repeatedly.
Hold on, mate.
Doctors are carrying out an urgent CT scan
to see if his internal organs are damaged.
He was protecting his sister when he was attacked.
Sunny is my younger brother.
AUTOMATED VOICE:Breathe in and hold your breath.
Everybody thinks he's older than me cos of the way he acts.
He's always protective,
so whether I went out anywhere,
he'd be there protecting me.
He'll tell everybody that this is my sister.
Breathe.
We used to hang out together,
play together, had the same friends.
We just did everything together.
We've been quite lucky. We've had a really good upbringing.
We are from a Sikh background.
We were always told, "Stick together.
"Anything happens, you have to be there for one another."
I think that's always stuck by us.
So we're gonna do that injection that I spoke about, OK?
So you're gonna feel those sensations
in a little bit, all right?
When we were young,
our parents were at work most of the time,
but my dad used to always make time for us.
He was such a good dad.
He was always there. Always.
All righty, we'll be done soon, OK?
So we had a really happy childhood.
We all had loads of good family moments,
but we didn't know what was round the corner.
So the doctor's gonna have a look at the pictures that we just done.
Cool. You can bring your arms down.
So he's got three -
his left, posterior aspect of his left shoulder
and one left upper quadrant.
Will you have a closer look on your big screens
and see if he's penetrated?
A problem with stab victims is
until you've got them back from CT scan,
you don't know how bad that patient is.
Righty, so if you feel up to it,
you're gonna go across with your trolley.
They could be sitting there quite happily,
but they could dip at any point,
so that... we always have to be on our guard.
Is it paining you, duck? Yeah.
It got stuck when I was playing around with it.
I have actually been on my feet all day,
so I might sit on one of them little chairs.
THEY GASP
Oh, my God, I'm so sorry.
What is wrong with me?
It doesn't help that your foot is massive!
13-year-old Tyler has come to A&E with his mum Claire
after injuring his ankle playing football at school.
I reckon I broke three bones in my life,
but I've only known about one of them.
I've worked at Queen's Medical Centre seven years.
You have to be a caring person,
but patients are very different to family.
Cos you didn't even have bruising, did you?
I did have bruising. But a little.
It instantly bruised. Yeah, a little bit.
At home, I have no sympathy whatsoever.
It's tough love, tough mum.
I mean, does that look natural?
Well... Look it from my perspective.
If I liked children...
CHUCKLES:..I would have about ten of Tyler.
He was so good. He's always been clever.
But when he had his accident, instantly, I rolled my eyes.
I thought... Cos he's a bit of a...
..wimp.
Oh, God, yeah. Oh, God.
Actually, that does look a lot bigger.
But when I looked at his foot,
I was a bit like, "Oh, he actually did do something,"
then I felt awful.
Are you in pain?
Tyler. Yeah. That's you.
Do you not want to go on wheelchair? What did I say,
with your knee? Bend it. Yeah, I keep forgetting.
Also, we might have to go round to X-ray,
and you ain't gonna be able to hop all the way there. No.
Tyler, do you want to sit on the couch there, young man?
All right, my name's Paul.
I'm one of the nurse practitioners.
What's happened to you, young man?
So I was playing football.
Uh, I was...I was running,
someone, like, got the ball, but then
their foot carried on and it went straight into my ankle.
Right, so have you put any weight on it since this happened?
No. No. Right, um, can you point
for me where you're getting most of the pain?
So is it on that... Probably like here. ..outside part?
Yeah, I won't go straight for that bit.
Now let's see. I'm glad I've got a mask on down here. I know!
So any pain on this side? No.
Any pain around the back here? Yeah.
When you go... kind of go over on your ankle,
sometimes when they go over with a bit of force,
they can pull little bits of bone off,
and that little bit of bone potentially
could be at the back there. Yeah.
I grew up in a place called Ilkeston, which is in Derbyshire.
It was just a terraced house, but it just had everything in it.
A sofa, a cooker, a bed - everything you need.
There was me and my brother and my mum and my stepdad.
We had such a great family.
We used to have a caravan and we'd go on holidays
to the Forest of Dean,
then watch Gladiators and Blind Date
on a Saturday evening.
So really good memories.
Just checking your circulation.
My mum was absolutely amazing.
She was always happy.
She used to pick me up from school in a sports car,
and I used to think I was something!
My mum wasn't stuck-up or anything. She just...
She worked hard for everything she had.
She worked in the bar at East Midlands Airport.
She was so tough and fiery.
A bit like Peggy Mitchell, I suppose.
SHE LAUGHS "Get out my pub!"
I'm gonna send you round for an X-ray and we'll have a little look,
see what's going on.
She had a massive personality.
I just remember her being there all the time.
I'd just finished work as they rang me.
You finished a bit early, then. Don't tell everyone.
SHE CHUCKLES
So pop to X-ray... Thank you. ..pop back,
and I'll let you know once I've had a little look at your pictures.
See you soon!
When I was 15 years old,
this one day, I went to school and my mum went
for a coffee with one of her friends.
I remember saying bye to my mum,
not knowing she wouldn't be back for...
..a month.
Do you want me to see anybody else?
I think there's a new patient in bay 4,
if you wouldn't mind seeing her, Roshni.
RASPY COUGHING
87-year-old Eunice is in resus
after coughing up large amounts of blood.
Doctors Chris and Roshni are on shift.
Owen, did you get a handover for this lady?
Yeah, the EMAS handed over that she's been vomiting blood.
With us and from the patient, she says she's been coughing it up.
OK. She said on Saturday, she didn't feel like herself.
She felt quite funny, quite ill.
Eunice, hello. I'm Roshni. I'm one of the doctors.
Hello, Roshni. Hello. Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you as well.
Just what my colleague's been
telling me is that last few days, like two to three days,
you've been coughing up some blood,
and you said that every time you're coughing,
it's about a half-cup full. It is, yes.
And is it... is it just fresh red blood?
It is, yes. OK.
When a patient coughs up blood,
you do sometimes have to do some detective work.
There's many things that I tend to be thinking about.
First one of those is infection.
Just breathe normally for me.
The second one is cancer.
Are they coughing up blood
because they're bleeding from a tumour in their lungs?
And the third one would be a blood clot in their lungs.
Are you all right to sit up for me? Yes, yes.
Identifying and treating that
as soon as you possibly can is essential. It's vital.
Let us do the X-ray. Yeah.
Hello, Eunice. Hello. I need to do your chest X-ray, OK?
Yes, that's fine. Yes.
She kept saying she doesn't want an ambulance.
She told the doctor she doesn't want to go into hospital.
And then she started deteriorating.
So she got a neighbour round and they called for an ambulance.
OK, Eunice, take a big breath in.
The worry was horrendous.
DR ROSHNI:I've had a look at your chest X-ray with my consultant.
We're not sure of a few things on the X-ray,
so we'll do a CT scan of your chest to rule out a clot, OK?
Yes. Is that OK? Thanks very much.
Yes. All right, no problem.
A CT scan can identify infections, masses and tumours.
It can identify blood clots that don't show up on an X-ray.
How's Eunice on her feet?
How are you on your feet, Eunice?
I can get...
Will you be able to shuff... Yes, yes,
I can shuffle. ..or stand and then transfer, yeah?
Yeah, I can stand down and...
It's important to find out the source very quickly,
because if you have a bleed
that continues to bleed and doesn't stop,
then your lungs fill up with blood and you drown.
It's a horrific way to die.
You want something to spit into?
Can you get me a vomit bowl? Is she being sick?
Yeah. Oh, that's not good! Yeah.
Some fresh blood.
Well done, darling. Get it all up, sweetheart.
Eunice, can we just hold on to that bowl for you a minute
so you can straighten this arm so I can check your blood pressure?
It's all right. I've got the bowl, sweetheart. OK.
If you can straighten this right arm for me.
Well done.
87-year-old Eunice is having a CT scan
to determine why she is coughing up blood.
All right, do you think it's all come up now, sweetheart?
I think so, yes. Yeah?
You've got a good cough.
THEY CHUCKLE Oh, bless you.
Just in case, Eunice,
take that through with you as well. All right?
We'll be on hand if you need to cough again, OK? OK.
My mum was born just before the war in Sheffield.
She would have been five years old when the war broke out.
There was a lot of bombing,
so my mum, her mum and her sister spent many nights
in the Anderson shelter
at the bottom of their garden on their own.
It must have been very scary.
OK, Eunice, gonna start the injection.
You're gonna feel warm, OK?
When my mum met my dad, she was 15 years old.
They went on a blind date and they've been together ever since.
They had a tandem when they first met,
so they used to go and ride about on that.
Then they got a motorbike.
I can't see my mum on a motorbike, but they loved it that much
they got a bigger motorbike,
and they went to Scotland and they went to Devon.
They went everywhere on this motorbike, Mum and Dad.
And then Dad bought a motorbike and sidecar.
Bit like Wallace and Gromit! SHE LAUGHS
Hold your breath.
Is that her heart?
If you see the chambers of
the heart being dilated on a CT scan,
it's an indicator of a big blood clot.
If you have a big enough blood clot in your lungs,
that can cause part of your lung to essentially die off.
Very briefly, what happened?
Stanley knife. I could see it coming as well,
and I was thinking to myself, "If this slips, it's going to..."
And it went. So I don't know if there's any blade left
in there cos I couldn't find the blade neither.
Ah!
Relax your hand and let...
Agh! Agh!
There we go.
You're free, Kai. ALL: Hey!
Thank you! Well done!
Quick question. Yeah. What's your BP supposed to be?
120/90. Yeah, is that...? That's your BP, yeah.
So is that 120/90 good? Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty good.
Doctors are awaiting Sunny's full CT report
to see if there is any serious damage to his organs
after he was stabbed four times.
I think you're probably the nicest person I've ever met.
I try to be. HE LAUGHS
Why be miserable, moan and this and that? Just...
I wish everyone was like you. THEY CHUCKLE
Sunny, he's a really good brother.
He is all about his family.
Dad would have been very proud of him.
Perfect. Good one. 36.5.
Ten years ago, our family had a get-together.
My cousins were down.
We were all messing around and we ate together.
Just a normal night.
My nephew woke up. He wanted milk.
So my mum got up...
..and she realised my dad wasn't moving.
His heart stopped.
He passed away in his sleep.
It was a big shock to us.
Sunny, he's the youngest, so it hit him quite hard.
All right, mate, your scan looks good, OK?
There's no injuries anywhere.
We're just gonna have to have a look at the wounds and everything,
see what needs closing and cleaning, all right? No problem.
AMANDEEP:My dad would have been devastated
to see his youngest get stabbed.
Never would he ever thought something
like this would have happened to one of our family members.
You're not bleeding any more. They look good as well, looks clean.
Let me just change.
Yeah, just at the back. Just relax.
It's just a really weird experience
because you wouldn't think someone you knew would do this.
But we know the person that stabbed Sunny.
Fine, all right?
That's the actual wound anyways.
For this chap here... Yes.
..I think all the wounds look good, actually.
Clean borders. Yeah, just clean and stitch.
We've already got a plan. Anne's gonna do it.
Oh, OK.
Might be bleeding internally.
Two.
Last BP for him was hypertensive - 135/86. OK.
How are you feeling? How are you feeling?
Drowsy?
OK, no worries. I'm just gonna tilt your trolley, OK?
That's fine.
A huge blood pressure drop
is concerning because it could be blood loss.
That's it. Good man.
So it's important that we stabilise that blood pressure with fluids
and blood products if needs to be.
That gent here, he's dumped his blood pressure.
You need to find out why that blood pressure is low,
and we need to rectify that as quickly as we can.
Hello, baby girl.
Do you want to speak to Charlie?
Is that your sister? Hiii.
Don't want it to be broken.
Got Tyler. Yeah.
All set.
Tyler's in hospital with his mum.
He's having X-rays after injuring his foot playing football.
Are you able to hop across onto the bed at all? Yeah?
Lovely stuff. And we're doing your right ankle.
Are you able to point your toes towards the ceiling for me?
Lovely.
When I was 15 years old,
I went through such a tragedy with my mum.
I'm just going to roll your knee in.
She was with a friend for a coffee,
and all of a sudden,
she said she felt like someone
had smashed her over her head with a baseball bat.
And she was stumbling like she was drunk.
She went to the hospital and...
..they did a scan and said,
"You have got a double brain haemorrhage."
OK, Tyler, are you able to turn over onto your side,
so you're facing this wall over here?
Lovely.
She was 36 years old,
but a brain haemorrhage can just happen.
And it was the toughest times of my life and I was 15.
And I don't often talk about it cos it makes me really sad.
They tried to clip the haemorrhages,
but it didn't work cos it was too deep.
So she had a 9.5-hour operation.
And she died five times on the operating theatre...
..cos it was such a tough procedure.
I remember leaving the hospital, pulling up at home,
and it was quiet and lonely in my house.
My mum didn't have her programs on.
She weren't out the back door having a fag.
I felt empty, I felt lost.
When she eventually came home, that's when it hit me
that she wasn't the same person and she needed help.
I had to help her get dressed
and she couldn't even brush her hair.
Then a massive brain operation, but I didn't understand.
She was a stranger in my house.
Right, Tyler, I'm gonna try one more, OK?
So if you just bend your knee for me.
I said to her, "I want my mum back."
Yet she was right in front of me.
I was grieving for the loss of the personality that is my mum.
And within a couple of years, everything changed...
..because her relationship broke down as well,
so then my family broke down.
OK, Tyler, we're all done.
So if you head back round to where you were.
Lovely.
I dropped out of school. I didn't care about my grades.
I was so caught up on my home being broken,
I didn't think anything was important any more.
Thank you.
EUNICE:You're going to string me up?
I'm gonna put some more strings on now.
Yeah, has Olivia told you we need to put another cannula in?
Yeah. Yes, she did. Yeah.
Blood clots in Eunice's lungs are causing her
to cough up blood and her heart to dilate dangerously.
Doctors are awaiting the full CT report
to determine how best to treat her.
Be a bit tight, all right? Yes, that's fine.
Squeeze your hand. I'll take this off for a sec. Yeah.
When we were growing up,
my dad bought his own patterns and moulds business.
He was away a lot trying to build the business up,
so my mum really had to hold the fort together.
Think mine must have faded with the years.
THEY CHUCKLE
My mum and dad were both hard-working.
My mum actually worked for my dad.
NURSE:Well done, Eunice.
Dad ran the business and Mum got the house to keep as well.
I don't really know how she coped.
I'm sure there were times when it was a challenge for her,
but we've all grown up well so she must have done a good job.
So I'm just gonna move this.
All right, we're just going to have a little changeover.
After Mum and Dad retired, Dad got cancer.
He had quite a long illness...
..so my mum nursed him.
So she was with him when he passed away.
I did see my mum cry obviously, but she was still quite strong.
Do you want this behind your back,
this blanket? Oh, please. Yeah. Yes, yes.
She's never been a panicker.
She just gets on with life.
You know, doesn't complain, just gets on with it.
Dr Chris has received Eunice's full CT report.
Hello.
Hello. How are you feeling?
Oh, I feel fine, thank you.
Now, um...
So you've got clots on your lungs.
Yes. OK, and they, like, block up the arteries.
I see. And the pressure then builds back
and it's putting pressure on your heart.
I see. The important thing is to try
to stop those clots getting any bigger.
I see, yes. OK? OK.
Because if they get bigger,
then it could become life-threatening.
Yes. I need to have a chat with you about
what you...what you feel about
what you would like if you were to get very, very sick.
Yes, yes.
Is that something that you've ever talked
to anyone about before? Yes, many a time. Yes.
I have talked it over with the children,
and, uh, I don't want any, uh...
..uh, means of keeping me alive.
Just let me go...
..uh, if it comes to that, you know? If it comes to that. Yeah.
That's fine. Yes.
So I'm going to complete
what we call a do-not-resuscitate order.
That's right, yes.
But that doesn't mean that we're not gonna do our very best.
Yes. OK? To get you well and get you home.
Oh, that's kind. Thank you very much.
As we are now, do you think
that I'm on the danger list now?
You know, do...?
Could I go any time or...?
You are poorly. Yes, yes. OK.
I can't give you percentage odds.
No, no. I'm very, very hopeful that you'll do well.
Yes, yes.
Um, but patients in your situation,
things can get... you know, things get worse...
Yes, yes. ..rather than better. Yes.
When you're breaking bad news, it's never pleasant.
But there is a...
..a satisfaction that you can take from it
in doing it well and in making that horrible moment
for somebody as least horrible as you can.
The other doctor also said
that you wanted us to give your son a call. Is that right?
That's right, yes.
Do you want me to talk to him as I've been speaking to you?
Yes, if you wouldn't mind. OK. Yes, that would be nice.
Is there any particular message you'd like me to give him from you?
Just say that I'm not worried. They know me,
and I always look on the bright side anyway, so...
Most people seem to be quite pragmatic and...
..take in what you say.
Most people are quite calm, and I think a lot of the time that's
because they're expecting to hear what you're telling them.
Yes. It makes things easier and it makes
the conversation more simple to have.
But when you're having to have those conversations,
if somebody is sweet and lovely,
that does still make it harder for me sometimes.
Why do all these horrible things happen to all these lovely people?
Have we offered you any lunch yet? Not yet, no.
No? No. It won't be long.
OK. SHE CHUCKLES
Are you ready for a cup of tea and a sandwich
or something? I'm ready for a cup of tea.
Definitely. Yes, please. Yes, that would be lovely.
Good. Thank you.
You all right? Feeling a bit woozy?
It's OK. You want to recycle that blood pressure.
You all right there? Stay with us, mate.
I'm fine, I'm fine. Yeah.
Sunny has multiple stab wounds.
His blood pressure has dropped suddenly,
and doctors are concerned he could be bleeding internally.
Have you got fluids? Yeah.
You want Hartmann's or normal saline?
Hartmann's fine, yeah. Any crystalloid.
His sister, who witnessed the stabbing,
is at home waiting for news.
PHONE RINGS
Hello. Resus.
Who's your brother?
So he is stable. His scans have come back OK.
His blood pressure dropped a little bit not too long ago,
so we're just going to keep an eye
on him for a little bit longer, then we'll give you a buzz.
All right, cheers. Bye.
Amandeep sends her love.
I just let her know that, at the moment,
we're keeping a bit more of a closer eye on you
because your blood pressure dipped.
The guy that stabbed my brother,
he lives right round the corner from my family.
He fights with everybody.
He's got a criminal record.
He's ready to be stitched.
Should we move him out while you're doing that?
Do you want to go across the other side?
Yeah, whatever. Yeah.
I think I was quite lucky
that he missed cos he went to stab me twice.
I don't know how he missed twice,
but I think because there was more than one person there,
he was a bit puzzled which direction to go,
so he tried to swing for everybody.
Right, we're gonna have a look at these wounds
and get them sutured up. All right.
Is it that side? Yeah.
AMANDEEP:I wasn't surprised that he tried to protect me.
So sharp scratch coming now.
This is the way we're brought up.
Family comes first always.
Doesn't matter if you argue, fight,
you know, you're not talking to each other,
but you're always there for your family. Always.
Right, do you want to roll over onto your side, then?
We can have a look at...this one.
What we see coming in the department...
..it does blow your mind sometimes.
I often think about, how can you do that to another person?
Cos that stab wound could have killed that person.
One, two, three, four, five... Seven.
Seven and six.
We're all individuals.
We're all dealing with our own situations in life.
All right, all sorted. Let me get rid of this rubbish.
Every patient that comes through those doors has got a story to tell.
That's it.
I'll find out what's gonna happen now, OK?
Whether they're gonna keep you in or...
..send you out. That's fine. Thank you.
It's very busy today. Yes.
Is it like that every day? Yeah.
How am I gonna get to school?
Well, it might not... It might be OK.
I'm hoping it's gonna be. But if I can't walk on it...
Come on, a week off school.
Emergency nurse practitioner Paul
now has the results of Tyler's X-rays.
Tyler, we should bring you back in. Let's go.
I'm just gonna hop in. There's no point.
Oh, my gosh. Oh, he's gonna walk again.
HE CHUCKLES
Have a seat wherever you're comfortable, young man.
Hello again, Claire.
Right, then, so we've had a look at your X-rays.
So just down there, can you see there's, like, a little step?
Yeah. Yeah, it kind of...
That should be, like, a nice smooth bit. Can you see it?
Yeah. Can you see there's, like, a little...?
So I'm suspicious that that is a fracture.
You can see it there quite obviously.
Why are you happy that you've got...? I get a week off school.
No, you don't get a week off school. No, my mum said...
No, maybe a day. Two days.
There's nothing wrong with your hands or your brain...
Yes, exactly. ..or your mouth.
Yeah, but I can't get to lesson.
We're gonna help you with that.
Walking boot, crutches. Ooh! A walking boot.
What size feet is he? Did you say he's 11?
11. Oh, dear. I know!
So you're gonna be a large boot. You might need to go to adult's.
Right, won't be a second.
Thank you.
After my mum's brain operation,
she eventually started to become better.
Then when I had Tyler, she was just absolutely amazing...
..and our relationship got much better as well.
She must be strong,
because she ended up leasing a pub in Nottingham.
That was her dream and she made it.
She made her dream come true.
She's still not fully my mum who I knew,
but she really is an inspiration.
All right, young man, just see if you can slide your heel back.
Because of what happened, I appreciate life again now.
That's why I pushed myself
to go back to college to get qualifications...
..cos I thought I want to work
at Queen's Medical Centre cos they saved my mum's life.
Right, there you go. That's one walking boot.
Thank you!
Tyler, I can't tell you how many of them I've put on.
Your mum's a professional.
There you go. You'll get it.
When I got the job,
my mum was so proud of me.
I was so happy, I cried.
I'm right behind you, but please don't fall.
It's gonna be painful when I'm at school.
Right, listen... I'm all right, I'm all right.
You're literally... I won't fall, I promise. ..giving me anxiety!
I promise you, I won't fall. OK.
I deal with situations at work...
..it brings back memories of my mum.
And I always think of the family.
And I'm lucky that I've got my mum and I'm lucky she's still here,
and some people aren't that lucky.
Ah! My leg.
I can't wait to go home cos I'm chilling out.
Take-away! Oh, yeah, please!
We'll get this going through.
Right.
Here we go.
Let's connect you up. OK.
Doctors are treating Eunice
for multiple blood clots in her lungs.
So that's gonna take an hour to go through, Eunice. OK.
Would you like some dinner?
I'd love a cup of tea. A cup of tea?
Do you have milk and sugar?
Just a level one of sugar, please.
Thank you. Right, a cup of tea, a level sugar and some milk.
I think I can do that.
That's lovely. Thank you. See you in a bit, sweetheart.
Hi, is this Paul?
Hi, my name's Chris and I'm one of the doctors in A&E at Queen's.
I'm here with your mum Eunice,
and she's asked me to give you a call.
She's had some blood clots in her lung...
..and that's why she's coughing up blood.
I hope very much that she's gonna do fine.
She's asked me to have a chat with you about
what would happen if it didn't go well.
I've sat down and had a chat with her a few minutes ago,
in which she said she wouldn't want to be kept alive
or resuscitated if she were to get very sick.
Now, I'm not saying this
because I think that she's going to get worse,
or I think that she's going to die...
..but she's a frail lady and this is a...
..you know, she is poorly,
and this is a conversation
better had now than at three in the morning.
But I'm sorry...I'm sorry... I know it's upsetting.
But she has good chances of coming out of this,
of coming... of getting through the woods. Absolutely.
I always find it easier to have that conversation
with the family and the patient all together,
if only because the patient then has their loved ones
for support in a very stressful moment.
Unfortunately, it's not possible all of the time.
OK, all right. Bye-bye for now, Paul.
He was in tears. Huh? He was in tears?
He was in tears.
Specialist medics have been called to resus to see Eunice.
How are you doing? Oh, not so good apparently.
I heard. I'm one of the senior medical registrars in the hospital.
So the story I heard was
that you were having blood coming whenever you were coughing.
Yes. We are a little bit worried about it,
I'll be honest about it. Yes.
And that's why we want to take you to a place
in our hospital called Level One.
They have a continuous monitoring unit there.
Yes, OK. Any questions for me, love?
No, no, that sounds reasonable.
Life expectancy is shorter by the minute obviously,
but I'm resigned to that. Don't even think about those things.
No, no. Look at the thing,
that you're in a nice place with nice doctors and nice people.
Oh, absolutely. Yes, you are.
Thanks for explaining everything as well.
No trouble. Take care of yourself, Eunice.
Yes, I will. Thank you. Bye.
Thank you. Bye-bye.
My mum was always there for me.
Hello, I'm gonna take you up with one of my colleagues, all right?
Yes, OK.
Eunice! Yes. You're leaving us?
So I'm just told. I know! I'm sorry to go.
Well, we'll miss you. I'll miss you too.
SHE CHUCKLES
I'd just like to be like her when I'm older.
I'd like to have her spirit,
and I'm sure it's in there somewhere.
I don't want to go. Aw! SHE CHUCKLES
She's a brave lady.
I can't imagine life without my mum.
OK, my darling, you look after yourself.
Thank you. OK? Yeah, thanks for everything.
Take care, Eunice. Thank you.
You can't change things that have happened,
so I try not to dwell on it.
Most of the time
you'll probably make someone else smile back at you,
so why not always just look at positives in life?
When I went to visit my mum on that first day,
she says, "I know I'm dying."
So she says, "I don't think I'm gonna make this one."
She says, "But don't worry, love."
She says, "I love you. I've had a good life.
"You've looked after me so well."
Hello.
Hello, Linda. How are you, love? I'm all right.
If I have any future or very much future,
I hope that I can spend it with the family.
There you go. Oh, look at those. Aren't they beautiful?
My family is very important to me.
I don't know what I'd do without them.
On the whole, I've been very, very lucky in my life.
Each day is a blessing to me.
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