10-Month-Old Baby Goes Limp in Mothers Arms | 24 Hours In A&E UK Season 4 Episode 5

[00:00:02]went from the bonnet found face down on the floor.

[00:00:06]>> It's a stabbing cord.

[00:00:07]>> 25 ft from a ladder onto his back. He's really unwell. I think anesthetics need to see him before he goes to theater.

[00:00:13]>> Daffany. Die.

[00:00:16]>> Where's everybody then?

[00:00:18]>> Chilling.

[00:00:20][music] >> King's A. I'm help >> King's College Hospital, London.

[00:00:26]>> I know it's annoying my head. One of the busiest A&E departments in the world.

[00:00:31]>> I want top to toes, head, [music] chest, abdomen.

[00:00:34]>> A place where love, >> life, [music] and loss, >> don't bloody die.

[00:00:42]>> I love you too much for you to die.

[00:00:44]>> Unfold every single day.

[00:00:47]All the patients [music] you're about to see were treated in just one 24-hour period.

[00:00:52]>> Andie is always like a traffic jam. Can we get a trolley? You've got to realize that there's awful [music] things that can happen to you.

[00:01:00]>> I'm so sorry.

[00:01:02]>> Life is unpredictable. So, it's [music] important that your nearest and dearest know that you love them. You have to tell them that you love them.

[00:01:12]>> You must get better and come back to me.

[00:01:15]I don't want to lose you.

[00:01:17]>> Because there may come a time when you're not around to tell them.

[00:01:58]He is having IV fluids for sobering up.

[00:02:02]This man's absolutely hammered. Um Naomi stuck a line in him when [music] he pulled it out. Um and he then threw himself on the floor in the cubicle.

[00:02:16]>> I like that name. Great name.

[00:02:21]>> Or Jesus. I love the name Jesus.

[00:02:25]>> Yeah, Jesus. That's a great name cuz it's spelled Jesus, but it's pronounced Jesus.

[00:02:33]>> A is still having his fluids. I'm waiting on sobering up. He'll be here till this time tomorrow. The new man gone into 15 who's drunk, who's fallen over and hit his head.

[00:02:46]>> Saturday night, darling. And I'm afraid the drunk head injuries come in on a Saturday night.

[00:02:57]>> Look, these people are hardly sober, are they? [laughter] >> 2 minutes.

[00:03:09]>> Head injury. 27y old head injury. We know nothing more.

[00:03:13]>> Dr. The Flur is the lead consultant on duty, responsible [music] for every trauma case that comes through the doors.

[00:03:19]>> Quite combative and aggressive as alcohol security.

[00:03:21]>> Okay, great. Okay.

[00:03:23]>> It's her first week in the role.

[00:03:28]>> Lovely. Okay, sir. Thank you.

[00:03:33]>> So, we don't seem to have an immediate airway problem. However, we might have a assessment sedation need to scan problem. He's got an obvious head injury.

[00:03:46]>> Yeah. Matt, do you want to just take the role of just trying to calm him down?

[00:03:50]>> If you'd asked me a couple of years ago if I wanted a consultant job at Kings, um I probably would have been too daunted to um think that that was an option.

[00:03:59]>> Have you been drinking?

[00:04:01]>> Yeah.

[00:04:01]>> What have you been drinking?

[00:04:03]>> Jack Daniels.

[00:04:04]>> How much?

[00:04:05]>> A lot.

[00:04:06]>> What? Since this morning or all night?

[00:04:08]>> All night long.

[00:04:10]>> Okay.

[00:04:11]>> All night. Welcome to the world of trauma. Um >> yeah.

[00:04:18]>> Yeah.

[00:04:21]>> That's all you have.

[00:04:26]>> I've never been really searching for that trauma adrenaline kind of medicine, but I've been totally surprised how much I've really loved it since I've been here.

[00:04:36]>> Okay. All right, sweetheart.

[00:04:38]>> Okay. We've got a tra dev to the left hand side a right sided chest wing.

[00:04:45]>> I don't think I'd use the word exciting.

[00:04:48]>> Exciting kind of implies it's something that you're looking forward to. I wouldn't describe it like that.

[00:04:55]>> His friend looked a bit >> bit what?

[00:04:58]>> Youth.

[00:04:59]>> Youth.

[00:05:00]>> Youth.

[00:05:00]>> I don't even know. You're talking a different language to what I understand.

[00:05:04]What do you mean? hoodie, you know, or >> remember that is that they are our people.

[00:05:11]>> They are our people.

[00:05:12]>> They are our people, aren't they?

[00:05:15]>> Hoodie. A little bit edgy, >> dodgy.

[00:05:18]>> Street.

[00:05:18]>> Street. Yeah, street. Yeah, absolutely.

[00:05:23]>> I don't It's not for me. I'm not here.

[00:05:25]>> Hello Kings A.

[00:05:29]>> We also have a lot of other patients there who are elderly. We have children.

[00:05:35]So, it's a very challenging environment.

[00:05:48]>> Hello, Kings.

[00:05:50]>> Pediatric trauma call. A recess 5 minutes.

[00:06:05]Paramedics have been called to a flat where a 12-year-old girl has fallen down a flight of stairs.

[00:06:11]>> 8-year-old that's fallen down some stairs. Caspine immobilized.

[00:06:15]>> Can you not both go because I I can't do all the lifting on my own cuz I'm not very strong.

[00:06:21]>> I'm 6 months pregnant.

[00:06:23]>> You're kidding me. [laughter] You're kidding me.

[00:06:26]>> Why didn't you tell me?

[00:06:27]>> Fine. I >> when they walk through the emergency department door, they're often at their most vulnerable and most scared. As a parent, you can't help but feel a slightly different level of empathy for that family.

[00:06:48]>> Yeah. Get across and then we'll take the hands over.

[00:06:53]>> Right. This is 12year-old Grace. Grace felt down eight nine wooden stairs.

[00:06:58]She's gone down on her back.

[00:07:00]>> Mhm.

[00:07:01]>> Mom had her hit the deck. She was gray and sweaty and hyperventilating. So when we got there, she was scratched over, complaining of back pain all the way down. C-spine tenderness, tenderness all the way down.

[00:07:13]>> Okay.

[00:07:14]>> Okay, Grace, we we're just going to check you out [music] first. Okay. We got a pulse of 94. We're just waiting for a blood pressure.

[00:07:24]>> That sort of fear that [music] you see in parents eyes when they're bringing in a child that's very unwell. You can really be there with them.

[00:07:31]>> Do you want to just go up and stand with her? We're just examining, but she'll be happier if you're there. [music] the way she fell and you know and how she did look. Her face was gray [music] and I've never seen her look like that.

[00:07:51]>> We felt the pelvis. Just feel gently around the pelvis.

[00:07:57]>> You're doing well, Grace.

[00:07:58]>> Does this hurt?

[00:07:58]>> Yeah.

[00:07:59]>> Where pressing hurts?

[00:08:01]>> Just what you was pressing last time.

[00:08:03]>> Okay.

[00:08:04]>> Yeah, it does.

[00:08:05]>> That hurts. Yeah, >> it's that bond you have with a child, with your own child, [music] you know, it's um you don't have to think about it. It's just an instant reaction to their needs. You just know [music] instantly that that's your child and you would do anything in your power to protect her.

[00:08:26]>> We need to do a log roll and examine the C-spine and the rest of the spine as well. She's fine.

[00:08:31]>> You can only imagine how [music] terrifying that must be to only be strapped down in a place you might not even know where you are.

[00:08:38]>> Some tenderness over the left iliac crest >> and all that they can hear is the voices of many many people. [music] Grace, my name is Flur. I'm one of the consultants. Now, when you're lying there now, can you tell me where it hurts the most?

[00:08:52]>> Yeah, more around the neckish backish.

[00:08:55]>> Neckish backish. [music] Okay. Well, then we need to examine your neck and your back. Okay.

[00:09:01]>> You always have to think, what is the worst case scenario? What is the worst injury this patient could have? [music] >> 1 2 3.

[00:09:09]>> Right. Well done. You're being very brave. Okay, that's it. Now, just try and relax a little bit.

[00:09:13]>> Maybe they've got a cervical spine or a spinal injury.

[00:09:16]>> Okay.

[00:09:17]>> There. [music] All right.

[00:09:20]>> Down here.

[00:09:22]>> It's all there.

[00:09:23]>> Yeah.

[00:09:24]>> There.

[00:09:25]>> There. Over these muscles here.

[00:09:27]>> There.

[00:09:28]>> Yeah.

[00:09:28]>> Okay. Well done.

[00:09:30]>> The way that [music] a child's spine responds is slightly different to an adults, which makes actually diagnosing a spinal injury in a child even more difficult. Going to pop the collar back on. Okay. And we're going to get some X-ray pictures of your neck and of your lower back.

[00:09:47]Okay. So, it's sort [music] of it's it's lumbar really. Okay. Bye.

[00:09:51]>> 1 2 3. 12-year-old Grace has been brought [music] in with potential injuries to her neck and spine, having fallen down a flight of stairs at home.

[00:09:59]>> Pelvic X-ray, lumbar spine X-ray, and C-spine [music] X-ray. Yeah. Okay.

[00:10:05]>> Um, we've just had a pediatric trauma call a 12-year-old that has fallen down eight wooden stairs. So, I'm going to request C-spine, lumbar spine, and pelvic plane films.

[00:10:15]>> Following the X-rays, doctors will also scan Grace to reveal how badly she's been injured by the fall. She has fallen down [music] six to eight wooden stairs, bless her, on her back. Mom found a gray, clammy, hyperventilating, complaining of pain. [music] She was really, really in a lot of pains.

[00:10:32]Ambulance come immobilized her.

[00:10:39]She wants to be a singer. She sings from [music] the minute she gets up till the minute she goes to bed. [music] She teaches herself piano.

[00:10:50]Um, she just wants [music] to be famous.

[00:10:55]She's kind.

[00:10:57]She's demanding. [music] She's caring.

[00:11:03]She's everything really. Everything.

[00:11:11]>> I would jump in front of a train for grace [music] if it meant that it would stop her getting hurt.

[00:11:18]stop her getting hurt. I would I would take any pain whatsoever.

[00:11:36]>> Swing your legs around for me, Sam.

[00:11:38]Stay nice and still, darling. Stay nice and still. [music] Okay, it'll be fine.

[00:11:43]All right, it's just going to sting for a minute. Crazy night in AE starts with seeing ambulances parked all down the ambulance bay, walking into the waiting area and seeing it absolutely rammed.

[00:11:53]You just know that that's the start and it's not going to stop.

[00:11:56]>> Hey, please. Why are you here? Why are you here? I'm [ __ ] This is my business.

[00:12:04]>> Know you have people coming over that are very unwell. You have people that are drunk on drugs and then people that are upset or extremely worried about their loved one. Yeah, all that can lead to some strange and sometimes quite aggressive situations.

[00:12:27]>> I mean, what are the police doing tonight? Are they bringing everything in off the street?

[00:12:33]>> Seriously, look.

[00:12:38]>> What's wrong with this channel, man?

[00:12:41]Police have escorted a man into King's A&E.

[00:12:44]>> Get him in next door. I'll sort him out quickly. Right. Let's get him into number four, please. Let's sort him out and get him out of here.

[00:12:51]>> He's been tasered.

[00:12:53]>> He needs [music] quick brief medical clearance and then can we get him out of here?

[00:13:00]>> That'll be our stabbing, I think.

[00:13:01]>> Reus.

[00:13:03]>> This is busy. It's noisy. There's always police.

[00:13:06]>> I'm worried about your head injuries cuz you got lots of bumps on your head.

[00:13:10]school girl. It's cool.

[00:13:11]>> No, no, no. I don't think >> you all right.

[00:13:15]>> Well, no, cuz this is going to cause me a lot of >> Well, they've tased him and they're like, "Well, he's very subdued now."

[00:13:22]Now, the police had to be called cuz he was so violent and aggressive on scene.

[00:13:26]They've tased him and of course he's subdued now, but that means they want to leave. So, I'm going to end up having an argument with me feels.

[00:13:35]>> If he's been really aggressive with you, I can't allow you to leave.

[00:13:41]That'd be lovely. Thanks.

[00:13:44]>> Patients are often under the influence of alcohol, so they can be quite aggressive.

[00:13:48]>> I know that [ __ ] house.

[00:13:51]>> I love this [ __ ] >> I love this [ __ ] >> When we get people in that are aggressive, I always make sure that I tell them that they need to have a bit of respect, not only for myself, my colleagues, but also for the other patients and relatives that are in the department at the time.

[00:14:12]Dexter.

[00:14:15]>> Sarah and Andy have brought in their 10-month-old son, Dexter. He's been vomiting and has a fever.

[00:14:21]>> Okay. Um, >> this is Andy. Hi.

[00:14:24]>> This is Dad.

[00:14:25]>> Hi, Rebecca. And what's brought you here today? What's >> this morning? He woke up with a temperature of 100. I gave him to the cowpole. Um, and he had his breakfast fine. Um, but then he had a three-hour sleep, which is unusual. Okay. Um, and then when he woke up and he then started to cry. His teeth were chattering. He looked hot. I took him out of the high chair and then he he [music] just went like this and he was completely on the spot. I couldn't rouse him.

[00:14:51]>> Sorry, I'm trying to be as speed as I can cuz we're absolutely rammed now.

[00:14:57]>> I've been here a few times in my youth with This is when it all gets crazy.

[00:15:02]>> His heart rate is a little bit high for his age.

[00:15:06]Is he got little spots there?

[00:15:09]>> See here as well.

[00:15:11]>> Just here.

[00:15:14]>> We'll see if you got space.

[00:15:16]>> Can we pop Dexter 9 months old >> to try and catch a urine? We check his [music] blood sugar and give him electroly and is probably a very daunting environment for for [music] parents to bring their children to particularly on a Saturday night where it's very busy.

[00:15:41]There's a lot going on that you may not want your child to be exposed to. And [music] therefore, if you're bringing your child into that environment, you must be really worried.

[00:15:52]Can I have a porter to resuscitate patient theater? Thank you.

[00:15:57][music] >> Amphitheater.

[00:16:02]>> No. To resuscitate a patient in theater.

[00:16:05]>> They died.

[00:16:06]>> Somebody to stop breathing. We need to get someone in. Get them breathing again.

[00:16:10]>> Yeah.

[00:16:12]Can I cancel the order too?

[00:16:18]>> It's either few or he's dead. [snorts] >> It's one or the other, isn't it?

[00:16:25]>> Look.

[00:16:34][music] Dexter's fever could be a symptom of a serious infection. He's given fluids while doctors carry out a series of tests.

[00:16:46]It's >> so difficult because you're kind of like I'm sit I'm watching him his teeth chattering >> and I'm thinking so when the paramedics arrived I had him wrapped up in his green blanket. So his [music] green blanket was covered in bomb.

[00:17:02]>> So the paramedics [music] goes right mom come on strip him off all all the way down to his nappy. Come on mom.

[00:17:10]And I was like, his teeth were chattering. And he's like, that's [music] just a reflex in babies.

[00:17:21]>> That's why I blanked my mind out to him.

[00:17:23]There's no point worrying about that worst case scenario, you know? Just be optimistic.

[00:17:29]Just think it's going to be okay. And if it's not okay, then you deal with it.

[00:17:46]>> [snorts] [music] >> You've been a perfect perfect mommy today.

[00:17:54]You've done everything right.

[00:17:56]Everything.

[00:18:00]I always draw on the situation where my mom was unwell and um you know she was in intensive care and my dad was doing a speech at a family gathering you know and he's [music] just so calm and collected and his his whole outlook on life you know is is you have to be positive about every situation. You can't you can't live your life in fear of those situations.

[00:18:19][music] Grace has sustained potentially serious injuries to her neck and spine after falling down the stairs at home.

[00:18:38]>> Doctors are taking her for a CT [music] scan to assess the extent of the damage.

[00:18:44]>> One, two, three. Move.

[00:18:49]>> Where your mom go? She might get send mom out.

[00:18:51]>> Just through that. Yeah. Go through that door just while we do the Yeah.

[00:18:54]>> Okay.

[00:18:59]>> [music] >> I think my mom, she was a lot calmer than I was.

[00:19:06]>> She was fun. She was fun, you know. She There wouldn't be anything she wouldn't [music] do. She would just, she was just a character.

[00:19:17][music] her funeral, the whole of Bury came out for her, which was amazing to see all the young kids, you know, it was just amazing to see that they all [music] came out, you know, to pay their respects for for a little old Irish woman.

[00:19:50]It's not fair on her, you know, cuz I haven't got my mom there.

[00:19:55]She lost two nannies in the same week.

[00:19:57]So, you know, she's had it hard >> because I am a single parent and she hasn't got her nanny [music] >> and you know, and other people have got their ns, other kids have. And I just think she's lost out on that as well.

[00:20:21]How you feeling?

[00:20:23]>> I'm all right.

[00:20:25]>> I just want to explain.

[00:20:26]>> Yeah, it' be nice.

[00:20:28]>> Not really enjoying tonight.

[00:20:32]>> Hello, King's Resource.

[00:20:33]>> Yeah, >> fall from three floors. 10 minutes.

[00:20:41]We're going to have to take >> five, right?

[00:20:43]>> No, there's someone in five.

[00:20:44]>> Six. Sorry.

[00:20:45]>> Four.

[00:20:47]>> I wager he'll need a bed one way or another.

[00:20:50]>> But what bed, I don't know.

[00:20:53]>> Has that gentleman over there got bed in ASU? [music] Do you know?

[00:20:58]>> On shift to oversee the hospital tonight is [music] Gordon King's clinical site manager.

[00:21:06]>> A lot of people, you know, they say, "Who are you?" We tell them, "Oh, [music] I'm the clinical site manager."

[00:21:11]Say, "What do you do?" And I basically say, "I do all the jobs nobody else wants to do."

[00:21:16]>> Oh, yes. You've got a bit.

[00:21:17]>> Oh, that's [music] right. Then >> you might be coming in, it might be a nice day, nice be calm. There's actually beds in the trust to put patients in.

[00:21:25]That is the perfect scenario. But then you come in first thing in the morning, there's still 12 patients to be placed from ED, another 12 in AOU. [music] And you know, you know, you're starting from minus 24 beds, so you know you've got a hell of a day coming ahead of you, but you get on.

[00:21:45]Gives you a buzz, you know. Um, I enjoy coming to work. Yes, I'm older now and I'm a little bit slower maybe, but I think because of my experience, I don't have to run around so much.

[00:22:02]>> Oh, I know. Don't start. Sorry.

[00:22:06]You got bloodshot eye, darling.

[00:22:07]>> Have I?

[00:22:07]>> Yeah. Really bad.

[00:22:10]>> Check your blood pressure.

[00:22:14]>> Let me look at my eye. Somebody says I've got bloodshot eye. I need to get my blood pressure checked.

[00:22:19]>> You want me to check it?

[00:22:19]>> Yeah. Can you do just to see?

[00:22:21]>> I've known Gordon since I've been here, which is about over 11 years. You know, the first thing I'll always see when I say Gordon, I say, "Do we have any beds?" And he would say to me, "You are joking."

[00:22:33]Gordon's having his blood pressure measured as it may be the cause of his bloodshot eye.

[00:22:40]>> You have high blood pressure?

[00:22:42]>> No, we don't.

[00:22:49]Wow. Gordon, no way.

[00:22:55]>> Show me.

[00:22:56]>> That is high. you think of sustained high blood pressure, all the damage you [music] can cause to various organs within your your system. So, it's quite worrying because he he has other things, not feeling well, a headaches, you're wondering what's happening here.

[00:23:10]>> That's high.

[00:23:16]>> I'm 6 months pregnant and I stupidly thought, oh, you know, I'll get a little bit of sleep on Saturday night. You're fine. I'll get a little bit of sleep.

[00:23:25][sighs] No. Number four, please. I don't like six.

[00:23:41]>> Number four. Spit it out for us. Spit it out.

[00:23:45]>> All right. Very good.

[00:23:47]>> You know, there's no point being Oh, poor you. Poor you.

[00:23:52]>> Wake up for us.

[00:23:53]>> He's had so much Daz Pam. be sleeping till next Christmas.

[00:23:56]>> At the end of the day, you need to either change your life or stop climbing up ladders with flip flops on. You got to be firm and fair. The patient doesn't want to stand up. Well, we're not going to cure that and she needs to go home.

[00:24:13]I'm just about to become a patient. I've got high blood pressure 180 over 110.

[00:24:19]My right eye is bloodshot. He's got headache. After a colleague noticed his eye was bloodshot, hospital site manager Gordon has been taken off his shift with dangerously high blood pressure.

[00:24:30]>> Anybody else want their blood pressure taken? [laughter] I'm doing a staff blood pressure check this morning. Anybody need just come to my office, get a full >> so I'm just waiting to be seen by the region. They said that possibly they might want to scan me. As medical professionals, I think we tend to carry on and we carry on sometimes if we're invincible.

[00:24:59]>> I'm sorry about this.

[00:25:00]>> I care all day and that's what I do. My job is caring. But we never stop to say, do we ourselves need that care? Number four, Gordon. This is what it has to come to for me to see your chest into number four, please.

[00:25:14]>> [laughter] >> Gordon's blood pressure is so high that he requires immediate medical attention.

[00:25:20]>> Look after you and then we'll let you look after the hospital afterwards.

[00:25:26]>> Sharp scratch.

[00:25:28]>> His symptoms could be a marker [music] for a more serious underlying disease and he'll need further tests to establish what the cause is.

[00:25:36]>> I think we are reluctant as medical professionals to seek medical help.

[00:25:44]That's one thing I can always say about kings on a whole. We look after each other.

[00:25:58]He [music] had 15 milligs of IV diaspan, 5 milligs of PR.

[00:26:03]Is this the dissipated [music] shoulder?

[00:26:05]I did ask for them to just wait.

[00:26:10]guy name >> came in wanting to cause chaos and hurt others.

[00:26:15]>> He's going home [music] now.

[00:26:23]>> I was in so much pain. I didn't know what to do. Stuart thought, "Oh, am I going to have a major >> heart attack?"

[00:26:29]>> Heart attack.

[00:26:31]>> 88-year-old Irene has been brought in by ambulance suffering with severe chest pains. [music] And I thought, "Oh, it must be bad cuz you never pulled the alarm even when you fell over last time."

[00:26:42]>> No.

[00:26:43]>> Then everything in the car and rushed up from Margate.

[00:26:47]>> And I thought, "Oh, I don't want to phone any of you, you know, cuz she'll be worried." [music] >> All the time I was driving up there was thinking, "Will I still find her alive when I get there?"

[00:27:03]>> 2 hours is quite a long time if you've actually have had [music] a heart attack or something. Um, a horrible thought going through your mind really.

[00:27:12]>> You got headache, >> headache, bum ache, belly ache, >> everything.

[00:27:17]>> Hello there. Is it?

[00:27:18]>> Yes.

[00:27:19]>> Hi. How are you?

[00:27:20]>> I'm >> Could be better.

[00:27:23]>> Silly question. When I'm in hospital, >> what happened?

[00:27:26]>> I've had a heart murmur for years and this morning it hurt and in the end I just had to push my my button thing.

[00:27:36]>> Okay. Where do you live in a warden controlled?

[00:27:39]>> Yes.

[00:27:39]>> Yeah. Okay. And how bad is it out of 10?

[00:27:42]>> Well, 10.

[00:27:47][music] >> I love elderly patients. I just think the stories they can tell [music] and they've got so much balls and, you know, they've got a bit more backbone. [music] >> And what medical problems do you have?

[00:28:00]>> None really. I'm I'm quite [music] healthy person. I've got a cyst in my stomach.

[00:28:06]>> Okay. had two hip [music] replacements, a knee replacement, this shoulder, and I should have this shoulder and this knee done, but it's not the operation cuz it's that wretched [music] anesthetic.

[00:28:20]It makes you so daft. My son says, "You're dof, [music] mother."

[00:28:28]>> Mother's always the last one really to say that she's ill. She'll always say she's okay, even when she's not. What are you taking? Any regular medications?

[00:28:36]>> It's in there. My dossit box.

[00:28:39]>> Is it there?

[00:28:39]>> Yeah, that's what I take.

[00:28:44]>> And when we [music] think she's unwell, when we ask that, we call the doctor really cuz she won't call the doctor to come and visit. So, we call the doctor and but even when he comes in and asks, you know, how are you? She's, oh, I'm fine. So, you you never quite get to the bottom of it. So, I think we need to do some blood tests as well, just to have a look that there's nothing else going on and also do an X-ray of your chest.

[00:29:07]>> Can I recas it?

[00:29:11]>> You know, I always say that we think we plan our lives, but we don't really.

[00:29:18]They're all planned out for us from the day we're born.

[00:29:25]Describe Les.

[00:29:28]Well, he was [music] just a very nice, caring man.

[00:29:34]I hardly saw him. We [music] got engaged and off he went to Canada to learn to be a a flyer. [music] I was 15 and he was 19. So, I didn't I didn't see him [music] practically for the whole of the war.

[00:29:54]It wasn't until he came back and was demobbed [music] and then we got married and he was married in his uniform because he hadn't got another suit that fitted him. He'd grown while he was away.

[00:30:11]>> Sorry. My name is Sylvester. One of the porters. I wanted to be a bit comfortable.

[00:30:14]>> Oh, you're right.

[00:30:15]>> Everybody.

[00:30:17]>> Did you say Sylvester?

[00:30:18]>> Yes. Sylvester.

[00:30:20]>> The cat.

[00:30:21]>> I get that every I'll say you're fed up with hearing that.

[00:30:24]>> I'm not bothered anymore. [laughter] >> I mean, you've got to remember what they've seen, what they've gone through.

[00:30:32]>> We have got no idea that we're born now, you know, and I do. I just think the older generation are absolutely incredible.

[00:30:40]>> Have to pretend your name [music] is something else. The war, the bonds that are very different, frightening times.

[00:30:52]I remember one night when I was lying in bed and I woke up one night and I could see these boots marching past [music] the window and I was terrified.

[00:31:06]I thought we being [music] we've been invaded but it was the home guard doing their practice.

[00:31:16]Yeah, I always remember that. He's got stable pelvis, but he needs skin contraction. He needs to be consented, but he needs to stay here until he's awake, you know. And I need to >> recess keys. There's something in the cupboard.

[00:31:35]>> No, I haven't got them at the moment.

[00:31:36]>> He's got the keys.

[00:31:38]>> Anna, keys.

[00:31:41]>> That's it. That really >> can wheelchair to Major's Q. Thank you.

[00:31:50]Grace was brought into Kings earlier in the evening [music] with suspected spinal injuries, having fallen down a flight of stairs at home.

[00:32:01]>> I feel really sick. You got to remember Yeah. You came down and you've knocked yourself. Yeah. So, it was really scary in that X-ray thing.

[00:32:15]>> Have you ever been in one of them?

[00:32:16]>> No.

[00:32:16]>> It was really scary.

[00:32:19]You just panic too much. Yeah.

[00:32:26]>> Doctors are waiting for the results of Grace's scan to see if the fall has caused any serious damage to her neck and spine.

[00:32:33]>> Have you got any funny feelings in your arms? Do they feel weak or pins and needles or anything like that at all?

[00:32:39]No. Okay. Let me just have a look at them.

[00:32:42]>> Thank you.

[00:32:43]>> Keep them up even when I press on it.

[00:32:44]Keep it up. Keep it up. Keep it up. Keep it strong. Stronger. Stronger. Stronger.

[00:32:48]Stronger. Don't let me. Don't let me.

[00:32:49]>> Ah, thanks. This might be them now.

[00:32:53]>> Hello. Hi.

[00:32:58]>> Okay.

[00:32:59]>> Yeah, I thought so. Five. That's all. I think it all looks all right. Yeah.

[00:33:04]>> Yeah. I think your X-rays look all right. So, what I'm going to do is just take this off.

[00:33:09]When they first come in, they look one way and then once [music] they've been woken up and all of the blocks have come off, it's just amazing [music] to see who that person really is.

[00:33:18]>> Ready? Slow.

[00:33:18]>> Yeah. [laughter] >> The all clear means that Grace's neck brace can be removed.

[00:33:22]>> Put your socks [music] on first, Grace.

[00:33:24]>> How does that feel now that's off?

[00:33:25]>> Wow.

[00:33:26]>> It's not very nice. This, is it? It's a bit uncomfortable.

[00:33:28]>> Tomorrow when you wake up, I think you're going to feel worse than you do now. Okay. Cuz all that bruising where you've taken everywhere's taken a bit of a bang.

[00:33:37]>> Okay. All that bruising is going to come out.

[00:33:39]>> Yeah, no worries.

[00:33:40]>> Should I sit you up just a little bit?

[00:33:42]>> Yeah.

[00:33:43]>> But Dr. Flur will keep her under observation to ensure that she is safe to go home.

[00:33:48]>> Do that. Hope everything is okay.

[00:33:50]>> Yeah, that's fine.

[00:33:52]>> All right. Lovely. Thank you. Thanks.

[00:33:58]I never really had that chance to [music] experience or show my mom the woman I am really now and also the mom that I am. [music] I never got that chance.

[00:34:14]>> I think that she would be extremely proud. I think that she would be [sighs and gasps] I think she was always worried about me.

[00:34:23]Take it slowly cuz you haven't been standing up for a long while.

[00:34:26]>> All right. Thank you.

[00:34:28]>> Yeah, I think she'd be proud.

[00:34:33][music] >> Thank you.

[00:34:36]I know the other nurse asked by >> I know you're probably not thinking of yourself at all, but will you get him in a snuggle and I shall feed you a double decker? So, you've got some energy. All right.

[00:35:01]10-month-old Dexter is under observation, having been brought to A&E with a high temperature by his parents.

[00:35:09]>> No, you can't have any double decker.

[00:35:13]Chocolate bars are the realm of adult pleasure only, I'm afraid.

[00:35:21]Although, if you come home in tiptop condition, I might consider finding you something chocolate related.

[00:35:28]I can't you can't look at me with such covetous envious eyes.

[00:35:35]>> You can just pick the bits off of mommy's boobs.

[00:35:38]>> Mhm.

[00:35:40]>> That beats the crap out of diaryite, doesn't it?

[00:35:45]>> Let's get this straight. 2 minutes ago, you were lying in a pile, lifeless, as if the world was about to end. 2 minutes later, after a little bit of chocoli, you're absolutely fine. I bet your temperature's dropped as well, isn't it?

[00:35:58][laughter] >> Remember spending four hours in an A&E once when your mother had a fishbone in her mouth, a fishbone stuck in her throat long time ago.

[00:36:10]>> 4 hours.

[00:36:12]>> Fred, it's very boring being in A&E.

[00:36:15]You see, what happens is that if someone comes in after you and [snorts] they think it's more urgent, it's a more urgent problem. Sometimes that's like a baby or something like that, you know. Then they'll get to see the doctor before you. It's just the way it goes.

[00:36:35]>> Yeah.

[00:36:45]>> Bows. Harry.

[00:36:47]>> Yeah.

[00:36:47]>> Harry.

[00:37:00]Reporters major to take patient to X-ray. Please report to patient.

[00:37:13]>> Can I have a housekeeper to >> You're off. Yes.

[00:37:17]>> Look at him.

[00:37:18]>> Oh, wow. You're smiling, isn't he? He had a he had a a 40° fever and he had a bit of double-decker and then he livened up a bit and then another bit and then another bit and then suddenly you need to get a stack of double deckers in here and then your waiting list would be down in no time at all.

[00:37:34]>> Oh well, >> chocolate is the universal medicine.

[00:37:39]I think that's just um where my my father lives [music] strong inside me is that until the worst case scenario comes to fruition um don't waste your time worrying about him. [music] >> I love you.

[00:37:54]>> Love you too.

[00:38:03]>> Very high blood pressure.

[00:38:05]180 over 110.

[00:38:08]I've got a headache and I've got a blood shot eye.

[00:38:10]>> I said she didn't have a headache.

[00:38:14]>> So, we're just waiting for the blood results.

[00:38:19]>> Doctors have ordered tests to find the cause of Gordon's dangerously high blood pressure.

[00:38:24]>> Just you don't think about these things.

[00:38:25]>> No.

[00:38:26]>> You know, you just plot along and >> you have to be fair. You haven't really been well for a couple of days. Your breathing and stuff is worse.

[00:38:35]I was just being tired.

[00:38:36]>> He was admitted earlier into A&E whilst working his weekend shift.

[00:38:40]>> Got remember, you know, I'm not a spring chicken anymore.

[00:38:44]>> I'm not I'm the oldest in the team now.

[00:38:48]>> So, it takes its toll.

[00:38:52]>> Maybe tells you you can do this job up to a certain time [music] and it's like sell by date and I think maybe are trying to tell me I'm coming to my sell by date.

[00:39:08]>> [cough] >> Welcome to World War II.

[00:39:23]>> That's been the theme of our night.

[00:39:24]Punching and kicking nurses is the theme of the evening.

[00:39:29]>> I'm not walking on your nice floor.

[00:39:30]Okay.

[00:39:32]Thank you.

[00:39:34]>> We kind of survived.

[00:39:37]>> Oh, 88-year-old Irene has been brought into [music] Kings by ambulance. She is suffering with severe chest pains.

[00:39:52]>> What one of the carers said to me, "Who's the that photo of that little boy?" I said, "What? Me holding him when?" No, the little boy when he's got his fingers in his mouth.

[00:40:04]>> Oh, I said that's my Adam.

[00:40:05]>> That's Adam. Yeah.

[00:40:08]>> She said, "I I used to do that." She said, "And I still do it."

[00:40:12]>> Oh.

[00:40:13]>> Oh, dear.

[00:40:14]>> I don't think he does it anymore.

[00:40:16]>> No. Not like you when you were a baby.

[00:40:19]>> Yeah. Thank you. Don't worry.

[00:40:21]>> Your green rabbit that Auntie May made you.

[00:40:25]>> You'd have one ear up your no up your nose.

[00:40:29]>> [laughter] >> You don't ever stop being a mom. You always [music] worry if something has happened to them.

[00:40:41]>> Much to [music] this. Yeah. [laughter] Yeah. [snorts] Big babies cuz they are [music] big men.

[00:40:50]I think they've they've all got [music] a 46 in chest.

[00:40:58]Good.

[00:40:59]>> Okay. Your heart tracing is actually fairly normal. Something like that. No, that's >> which is good. Okay. So, probably move you into one of our areas a bit more comfortable than being on here. Okay.

[00:41:10]While we wait for those test results to come back and if they're all normal, I think you can go home. Okay.

[00:41:17]>> Makes you realize that, you know, your [music] parents are getting older and and they actually need a bit more care and attention now [music] than they did.

[00:41:24]you you always get used to them just being there and being sort of someone you can call on or ask to do something and all of a sudden that that's not [music] possible anymore and it happens to us all in the end.

[00:41:37]It's just, [music] you know, you see it, you you I suppose you get a a view of mortality, don't you really?

[00:41:53]>> We have um X-ray, chest X-ray for Gordon. Could I send him around? Thank you.

[00:42:00]>> I think a lot of times nurses and even doctors, they don't think about their own health. And that was true with me. I never thought about my health. I thought, "No, I I never get ill."

[00:42:11]>> You have the pleasure of taking Gordon to X-ray, please.

[00:42:15]>> All right.

[00:42:18]>> I had a chest X-ray, and [music] it came back and there was something showing on my left lung, which they didn't know what it was, but it shouldn't have been there. So, they referred me to the King's Chest Clinic.

[00:42:37]The first thing every [music] comes into your mind is cancer.

[00:42:42]They made arrangements that I went for a special scan called a PET scan.

[00:42:48]Had the scan then I went back to the clinic and I had lung cancer.

[00:42:58]But because somebody noticed it and [music] said, "Let's just check your blood pressure." And by that one single blood pressure check, that's how everything was picked up. Possibly could have saved my life because now I'm getting the treatment [music] for my lung cancer. Because if I didn't know that, God good goodness knows how long I could have gone on with this not knowing.

[00:43:28]>> [music] >> never give life up until there's no other answer. Um, so I will be fighting this all the way and I know at the end of the day I'll come out triumphant.

[00:43:43]I've got four beautiful grandchildren. I want to see at least one of them get married. Um, so that's at least another [music] 10, 15 years down the line. So that's my first goal. And the rest, well, it'll be a bonus.

[00:44:06][music] >> [music] >> I paid for my funeral. I thought that's something less for the my sons to get upset about.

[00:44:36]So, I paid for all that and um bought a little [music] headstone and on it I just put Lesie's uh date of birth and when he died and just left room for mine underneath.

[00:44:55]So, that [clears throat] was all sorted.

[00:45:01]What a subject to get on to.