GrannyJen
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Ways we can all say thank you to the NHS through our own particular memories:
No politics or blame games please.
I replied in another thread that without a vaccine we will all just revert to the days when there was no flu vaccine, lots died and the health service strained in bad epidemics.
It made me think of my Great Uncle Bobby. A lovely man, a milkman, lived on Lambeth walk in London and like so many brought up in cramped, damp housing he had chest problems.
I was seven when he died. It was November, I remember hearing my Nan talking to my Dad...... "He caught the flu and then he had Pneumonia:..... "Oh they did look after him well though, never had to worry about a thing, it was wonderful".
They were talking about the NHS. 5 1/2 years old. Remembering the days when it was a shilling to see the doctor and if you didn't have it, tough. Hospital consultants were Gods, if you managed to get into hospital and treatment was poor. There they were, two people, in the middle of their grief, celebrating almost with awe the fact that someone could die with dignity in a clean hospital bed where you were treated just the same as everyone else and no one had to enter into crushing debt or pawn the furniture to pay the bill.
Through my years of travelling, and living in the United States, I heard people talking with envy about the NHS.
God bless it and all who work in her ......
Aneurin Bevan at Davyhulme, Manchester.... the launch of the NHS 5th July 1948.
No politics or blame games please.
I replied in another thread that without a vaccine we will all just revert to the days when there was no flu vaccine, lots died and the health service strained in bad epidemics.
It made me think of my Great Uncle Bobby. A lovely man, a milkman, lived on Lambeth walk in London and like so many brought up in cramped, damp housing he had chest problems.
I was seven when he died. It was November, I remember hearing my Nan talking to my Dad...... "He caught the flu and then he had Pneumonia:..... "Oh they did look after him well though, never had to worry about a thing, it was wonderful".
They were talking about the NHS. 5 1/2 years old. Remembering the days when it was a shilling to see the doctor and if you didn't have it, tough. Hospital consultants were Gods, if you managed to get into hospital and treatment was poor. There they were, two people, in the middle of their grief, celebrating almost with awe the fact that someone could die with dignity in a clean hospital bed where you were treated just the same as everyone else and no one had to enter into crushing debt or pawn the furniture to pay the bill.
Through my years of travelling, and living in the United States, I heard people talking with envy about the NHS.
God bless it and all who work in her ......
Aneurin Bevan at Davyhulme, Manchester.... the launch of the NHS 5th July 1948.
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