Rainbow eye tapestry

At the start of the pandemic in 2020, a project called Shared Hearts was set up by our Critical Care team to support loved ones of patients who had sadly died of Covid. I created this tapestry by hand stitching over 125,000 individual pieces of yarn over a 4 month period.

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Silver linings

When we heard the first time about covid it seemed to be just an incident in China and it wouldn’t bother us at all…

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A band of brothers

I was asked early on to be part of the COVID team. I was happy to do this despite being deemed medium / high risk myself.

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Reflections of a Respiratory Consultant

Having known about MERS and SARS outbreaks from over a decade ago, I understood the potential gravity but only when I saw a video from a Wuhan hospital did it become clear what was happening & potentially how underprepared we may be.

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