Why the NHS not NWS

It’s impossible to think of weddings and work when we aren’t even sure what happens next. My life normally consists of brides and wedding dates but all of a sudden that’s gone. These days I think of my brides who are having to go to work and their wedding is the last thing on their mind. 

So much has been going on in my life and my work was part of what kept me going. Maybe as much as work it was actually the people I was working for!! Part of what I do is attention to detail and over the last lot of years with trends, abbreviations have got more prevalent. OMG, GOT, GOH, MOG, TWG, ICU well I never really took to that. Recently a guy text my husband NS and we guessed what he meant until we revivified it to discover it was not actually what we had thought!!

NHS!! Well I know that one and I had no doubt in my mind that I wanted to do whatever I could in anyway to help them and I will explain why. I’m very fortunate I have hardly ever even had to go to the GP.  But with work I get to chat to lots of brides and I learn an awful lot of them. Experience of life, thoughtfulness, modern technology, Iphone APP & some abbreviations, MOB & MOG. My Mum was diagnosed with a horrible illness and the day I was told about it one of my brides, a doctor, was with me. She knew me well, I had made her sisters dress,told me not to Google it! She said it’s a horrible illness and it will not be a nice end so just don’t read up about it. If you know me, and she clearly did, that was what I took out of what she said and I reckon to this day it was the perfect advice. Sometimes people ask for my take on a situation, I probably always have one but I like to think I always say that it is only my take on it and they must do what they feel is right for them. 

Thankfully now this charity is helping NI too.

  I’m not good at abbreviations!! I’m going on a bit!! I read a quote “nursing records must be written without abbreviation”, I wonder could I have been a nurse. Back to my brides, within my former brides I have doctors working in ICU now, doctors in mental health, two midwife’s and lots of nurses!!! If I could say anything to them now it would be those famous three words used at weddings, FAITH, HOPE and LOVE. MY Experience of life has taught me stressing or panicking is wasted energy. My husband has had his battle with the cancer (Big C) for three years, I panicked but hide it as much as possible from him and my brides, however it was a useless emotion! Without the NHS in particular where would he be. 

While my Dad was in hospital recently I talked with ambulance drivers and nurses about work, they all were so calm and caring! Outside people were panic buying and acting like idiots and everytime I went into the Ulster Hospital I found an oasis of calm. Once I wasn’t able to visit Dad I turned to my sewing to fill my days. Shops were shut but The Skip opened for me and gave me the fabric to make scrubs for the Ulster Hospital. I felt it was at least my way of helping. Former brides gave me advice on what was needed and guided me through. When I ran out of fabric social media put me back in contact with a girl who’s Mum & Dad I had worked for years ago. Her Mum was or is a very specialist palliative care nurse. Weirdly my Dad drove for the Wedding Cars the day of their wedding, funny how memories comeback! Thankfully the same car company agreed to drive my Dad home to his beloved house on Good Friday 2020, not quite the goodbye my Dad had wished for. 

So you see Faith, Hope and Love gets you through most things but the NHS were a big big part of that so that is why I will do what I can to help. Any of the people I came in contact with through these times, once we are back in wedding mood must hopefully know I will do anything I can to help them in return. Our NHS are awesome!!