#nhsworker

As part of the Equestrian Relief ‘Horse Drawn’ challenge - ‘paint or draw your best achievement incorporating your horse’ - Zara Tindall has painted her late horse Toytown, who she rode to an individual three-day eventing gold medal at the World Equestrian Games in Germany in 2006.

The painting is now up for auction, with all proceeds raised going to the NHS. If you have a spare £610 (and counting!) lying around, you can bid for the painting here.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CAZsRXzAy2F/?igshid=14i21jahqjwjo

PPE PLEASE

Hospital leaders rightly hit out at the government over a failure of PPE equipment to arrive. Here is my daily render informed by this story.

Stay safe and positive everyone.

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I lost my sister to suicide 2 and a half weeks ago, and I returned to work on Monday because I am a front line nhs staff working in a hospital trained to get people home safely. I returned to work because the NHS and the country needed my skills. But today I spent all day being abused my people families, being spoken down to and finally being told that I didn’t care about someone’s loved one.

I tried to explain the situation that Covid 19 virus is stretching resources that were already stretched before. Begging families to support their loved ones, then being told I was selfish...

I returned to work after losing my loved one in the worst way imaginable, I returned to help my colleagues and support my patients to get home from hospital to keep them away from a high risk area. None of which I had to do. But I did to support their loved ones.

Today I surrendered to my emotions and allowed myself to feel angry, sad and grieve. How do you stay understanding to someone who is not?

I surrender today, but I won’t tomorrow.