‘Kovid memories are in a deep box in my brain’

Five years later, senior sister Lauren Jake still clearly recalls the moment when she was told that her ward was expected to arrive at her first Kovid patient.

“You can see fear in everyone’s eyes,” she says.

As the epidemic surfaced, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals became a dedicated Surge Center, taking seriously sick patients in the east of England.

Since then, Sisterzek says that he has lost the “very good number” of nurses for other departments, as they can no longer face working in significant care.

Sister Jacks said how the first covid was reluctant to enter the patient’s room, unless one of the other sisters gave an example of how they would need to deal with the disease.

The experienced nurse described the first two years as “terrible”, the unit took care of its normal number of patients.

Employees were drafts from other departments, with nurses responsible for four patients, instead of one.

Sister Jake said that he first “cried” when he heard people clapping for NHS.

She said that she has still seen the face of the patients and she will never forget some of the people that she came in front.

“I have put the memories of that time in a small box, which is deep inside my brain.

“Will it ever be opened again? I don’t know, perhaps in the coming years, but at the moment, I am quite satisfied with leaving the feelings where they are and trying to take it with a profession I still love.”

Sister Jake said that it had completed a dissertation on the psychological impact of epidemic on employees including the post-tractic stress disorder (PTSD).

“There was a huge jump in nurses who were impressed by PTSD, bad dreams and flashbacks,” she said.

“A lot was unable to cope then, so he had to leave his career within significant care to detect his mental health and other paths for good.”

Recently published NHS staff surveyEast of England was the most employee, often emotionally tired (28%) and suffered from burnouts (24%).

The number is below 2021, but Sister Jake said that his colleagues were still “quite” for a long time and those who had lost relatives and loved ones could not forget and “should not forget them”.

Dr. Parvez Mondi worked as an advisor in the same department.

He said that one of the worst things was watching patients and families separately.

He said, “We tried to perform our best with the iPad as people were not allowed to travel, but it was quite annoying to see the patients without their loved ones,” he said.

“I am not surprised that many people were shocked.”

Dr. Mondi worked in a 12 -hour shift to stay in the hospital to protect his own family.

His children were teenagers at that time, one of which was studying for GCSE.

Sister Jake made his child home, who was then five years old, even after deciding the risk of bringing the disease home.

“My school definitely needs improvement!” He said. “It only seems to be a lifetime before.”

He said that he hoped that he will be able to give better answers to any future epidemic – and more efficiently.

“During Christmas, we found some more flu patients and shook some emotions because we were taking out the gown and mask and everything,” he said.

“They (some employees) were almost a little as if ‘it is close to the house, I don’t think I really want to do it again’, but it never reached that summit.”

Dr. Mondi said it was not until the study came that they had become better in the treatment of Kovid to ensure better results.

He said, “It was a very frightening time, you wouldn’t want to go through it again,” he said.