A moment to appreciate

Three years ago, Gary Burgon came close to dying. Now, he finally gets to express heartfelt thanks to the many NHS staff, many of them still strangers, who saved him and nursed him back to health. On 4 May 2014, while attending church with his family, Gary Burgon, then 58, collapsed. He has a vague recollection of falling to the ground and asking for people to care for his daughter. Beyond that, he has no recollection of what happened to him from that time until he woke up in Broad Green Hospital, Liverpool. It was June. “Even then” Gary says, “it was another week before I had my senses about me.” He soon discovered that he had been very seriously ill. His aorta had dissected and a heart valve had torn. He was nursed to the point where he was deemed fit enough to return home “under the continuing and dedicated care” of his GP, Dr Richard Cooper, and his team at Roseneath Medical Practice inBuckley. “It soon became very clear to me that I owed my life to a lot of people in two hospitals” Gary says. “Doctors and nurses in the Countess of Chester Hospital had administered life-saving emergency treatment. Radiographers had helped with the diagnosis of my illness. Porters had moved me around, while caring nursing staff reassured my family. “Ambulance men and women then took me to Broad Green Hospital, accompanied by doctors and nurses who cared for me during the journey. I have often wondered how they got home again.R...
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