We have cared for our daughter, now HSE won’t take care of us

On Saturday, February 28, I collapsed in a shop in Douglas.

I was taken by ambulance to the emergency department at CUH. I was detained overnight on a trolley in a corridor. My nearest fellow trolley patient was a 94-year-old woman with dementia. She was constantly accompanied by a relative.

Many more trolleys were strewn along the corridors and contained people of differing ages and illnesses. My trolley was not big enough to comfortably hold my large frame: I am 6’ in height, 17.5 stone in weight. Tests were done and I agreed to stay another night, following medical advice, but not on a trolley, where I was unable to sleep until 8am, when I nodded off for about half an hour.