1 00:00:02,400 --> 00:00:05,680 This programme contains some scenes that viewers may find upsetting, 2 00:00:05,680 --> 00:00:08,000 and was filmed within hospital COVID guidelines. 3 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:09,480 He came to us on the 22nd of March. 4 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:13,440 That was the day before the 23rd lockdown. 5 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:15,480 He doesn't really have much medical history, 6 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:17,920 certainly would normally be thought of as a healthy man, 7 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:21,640 and Joaquin has, on so many occasions, 8 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:23,840 just been clutching to life. 9 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:26,760 IN SPANISH: 10 00:01:41,960 --> 00:01:47,320 So I think, everybody, he has been in hospital a long time. 11 00:01:47,320 --> 00:01:51,120 He's been with us for nearly, I think, 110 days today. 12 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:52,080 OK. 13 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:58,000 He's got significant complications from the coronavirus. 14 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:02,400 His whole body has been affected - his brain, his lungs, 15 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:04,640 his heart, his blood vessels, his kidneys. 16 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:10,480 The ventilator is an intervention of last resort, 17 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:13,360 and it's, literally, it's about keeping people alive, 18 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:17,200 but he has a much greater chance of dying than surviving this. 19 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:19,800 Every day we try to make a little bit of progress. 20 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:24,920 I really hope this is a once-in-a-lifetime kind of thing. 21 00:02:24,920 --> 00:02:27,360 The rate was so extraordinary in March. 22 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:29,160 You know, we saw one or two. 23 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:32,120 We thought, OK, this is starting now. 24 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:34,400 And then suddenly within, you know, two weeks 25 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:36,040 we were all completely overwhelmed. 26 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:40,880 It was pretty terrifying, and still remains, you know, 27 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:42,840 an extraordinary thing. 28 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:45,200 And we all thought this was a disease where you just 29 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:47,560 put people on a ventilator for five days, 30 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:49,120 the virus would go, they'd get better 31 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:50,800 and you'd come off the ventilator. 32 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:53,160 And it could not be further from that. 33 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:56,160 This is something we hadn't really seen before. 34 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:05,760 There is nothing, nothing, that I've experienced 35 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:07,240 could compare to this. 36 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,880 Our first dance together as boyfriend and girlfriend was 37 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:35,640 Al Green, Let's Stay Together. 38 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:37,000 I was 12. 39 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:42,560 And then we got married when I was 17. 40 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:47,480 And then we become parents a month before my 18th birthday. 41 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:51,640 We hadn't got a clue what we were doing. 42 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:53,080 We hadn't got a clue. 43 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:57,080 48 years, married 42. 44 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:03,000 So, yeah, it's rare this day and age, really. 45 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:11,960 He was diagnosed with cancer, and we went in 24th of January, 46 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:14,400 we started the conditioning treatment. 47 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:18,000 And the news from that is that he is cancer-free. 48 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,160 But he went into a hospital with some infections 49 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:24,880 from the bone marrow, which is normal, 50 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:30,400 and that's when the Covid-19 has hit him hard. 51 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:34,640 But we are confident and positive that he's going to come through it. 52 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:42,520 This is the first time I've seen him intubated. 53 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:45,520 It's kind of really surreal, actually, just looking at him 54 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:48,760 and thinking back to what he looked like. 55 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:52,280 And the last time I saw him he was sitting bolt upright, 56 00:04:52,280 --> 00:04:55,080 and really struggling with his breathing. 57 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:58,640 We had to have quite a difficult conversation at that time 58 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:02,480 about whether, you know, he needed to be intubated. 59 00:05:03,840 --> 00:05:06,240 I think he was just worried about what would happen 60 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:08,640 and whether he would wake up again. 61 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:13,040 And so I kind of just had a frank conversation with him, 62 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:14,840 held his hand and I just said, you know, 63 00:05:14,840 --> 00:05:15,920 "Are you struggling?" 64 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:20,200 And he just, you know, he just nodded. 65 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:22,640 I think he was quite sensible at that point, 66 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:25,000 and realised that it had to be done. 67 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:28,560 It's hard to tell what the long-term repercussions are going to be 68 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:30,160 at this time. 69 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:37,560 You know, it can be quite impersonal, 70 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:41,480 you know, on Intensive Care, having wires and tubes everywhere, 71 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:44,720 and so I think, yeah, it's really important not to forget, 72 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:47,080 even when they are connected to the ventilator 73 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:49,440 and they're, you know, they're really unwell, 74 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:51,800 you can't forget that there's a human there - 75 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:54,360 that could be your father, your uncle, your brother. 76 00:05:57,880 --> 00:05:58,920 Here he is. 77 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:00,480 LAUGHTER 78 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:01,440 He's got... 79 00:06:05,840 --> 00:06:07,080 This is Majorca. 80 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:11,280 Every year we would go on holiday. 81 00:06:11,280 --> 00:06:13,840 Holidays were really important to us, 82 00:06:13,840 --> 00:06:16,320 because Dave worked a lot of hours. 83 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:17,720 He was a builder. 84 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:18,920 So holidays to us, 85 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:22,600 we needed to go to a place that we could actually reconnect. 86 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:24,880 It's the first thing we're going to do when dad's out, 87 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:26,080 is book a family holiday. Yeah. 88 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:27,800 He's always for a laugh, isn't he? 89 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:28,920 Yeah. He is. 90 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:31,280 He's just got, like, Peter Pan syndrome... 91 00:06:31,280 --> 00:06:33,560 Yeah. ..so just forgets that he's the age he is 92 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:35,320 and just acts the clown. 93 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:37,040 Yeah. So, yeah. 94 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:39,760 We went fishing, and his fishing chair collapsed. 95 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:55,760 DAVID: Kelly's 17th birthday. 96 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:03,120 # Happy birthday to you 97 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:05,880 # Happy birthday dear Kelly... # 98 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:09,400 Smile, Josh. 99 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:14,640 Mum, don't he look funny there? 100 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:19,760 Can you hear his laughing? 101 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:22,600 And that goes on and on and on. 102 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:28,360 DAVID LAUGHS ON VIDEO 103 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:30,280 Oh, I've missed that laugh. 104 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:37,400 Oh, is that that one done? 105 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:02,120 How many years have you been married? 106 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:20,240 Even as you renew your vows this evening, Tobi and Kunbi, 107 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:22,600 in sickness and in health. 108 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:26,840 To love and to cherish till death do you part. 109 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:42,280 Father, I want to thank you, Lord, because you are the Almighty God. 110 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:43,920 There is none like you. 111 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:46,400 The Bible says the entrance of your world "give it light". 112 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:47,960 I love my dad quite dearly, 113 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:52,360 and I almost have like a mystical type of reverence I have for him. 114 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:54,280 Were you there the day that he went into hospital? 115 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:56,200 I wasn't there, I was at university. 116 00:08:56,200 --> 00:08:57,960 All I know was the ambulance was called, 117 00:08:57,960 --> 00:08:59,960 he was taken in an ambulance. 118 00:08:59,960 --> 00:09:01,040 Yeah. 119 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:04,200 I was at university and, yeah... 120 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:05,600 It was a bit...bit of a tough time. 121 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:27,200 Tobi, are you quite uncomfortable? 122 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:29,320 No? 123 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:36,240 Tobi's an example of someone who has been hit 124 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:39,240 in so many different ways by Covid. 125 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:43,160 So, yes, he needed the support with the ventilator for his breathing, 126 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:47,240 but also his kidneys failed, and he has had strokes. 127 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:50,720 He has had several cardiac arrests whilst being in hospital. 128 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:55,120 With every expectation that he might die... 129 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:57,040 ..you know, the conversations we have with him 130 00:09:57,040 --> 00:10:00,000 and his family are thread through with realism 131 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,760 about the fact that he is still in a very vulnerable state. 132 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:09,040 We've dealt with large numbers of very sick people 133 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:10,400 as a result of Covid. 134 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:12,200 An awful lot of tragedy. 135 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:14,560 An awful lot of horrible situations 136 00:10:14,560 --> 00:10:17,120 where families have not been able to be with their loved ones. 137 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:21,360 I remember the last conversation I had with him 138 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:24,520 just before he went in, he was, like, coughing very profusely, 139 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:26,080 and I thought "Well, this is it," 140 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:27,960 and I had to just come to terms with that. 141 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:32,040 I really felt like, being 18, I just turned 18 in December, 142 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:36,440 I was expecting 2020 to be like me being 18, 143 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:39,000 this whole time I would have been having the time of my life, 144 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:40,640 and having my experiences. 145 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:44,360 I mean me being way younger than Deji, 146 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:46,080 I don't think too much, 147 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:49,280 cos I know when I do it's just very confusing. 148 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:51,960 Like they said he had a cardiac arrest 149 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:56,320 and I was really, like, broken from that and really scared. 150 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:02,480 This is kind of like an invisible war that we're fighting. 151 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:05,640 And pandemics and plagues are something that 152 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:07,680 we'd completely forgotten about. 153 00:11:07,680 --> 00:11:10,560 And it's something that's so recurrent throughout human history, 154 00:11:10,560 --> 00:11:14,120 but I think the human race, we did get quite big for our boots 155 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:16,920 in thinking that somehow that could never happen again. 156 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:20,600 But, yeah, Mother Nature just came and smacked us around the face 157 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:23,200 and said, like, this is... "Don't forget about me", 158 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:25,520 like, "I'm still here and I can still beat you up". 159 00:11:36,350 --> 00:11:37,910 Do you want jelly? 160 00:11:39,710 --> 00:11:40,990 No, thank you. 161 00:11:40,990 --> 00:11:42,910 Actually, yes, please. 162 00:11:44,190 --> 00:11:45,990 I want... 163 00:11:47,590 --> 00:11:49,950 Mummy, can you help me? 164 00:11:49,950 --> 00:11:52,510 Majidah, I have to do cooking quickly. 165 00:11:52,510 --> 00:11:54,430 How do you like cereal bars? 166 00:11:55,910 --> 00:11:59,230 He's a very nice person, because he's a caring dad. 167 00:12:01,350 --> 00:12:04,030 Daddy and his girls enjoying his birthday. 168 00:12:05,190 --> 00:12:07,950 Sometimes he's grumpy, and we like that part of him 169 00:12:07,950 --> 00:12:09,950 because we laugh about it, 170 00:12:09,950 --> 00:12:11,830 and the kids always say that. 171 00:12:13,230 --> 00:12:17,950 # Happy birthday to you 172 00:12:17,950 --> 00:12:22,190 # Happy birthday to you... # 173 00:12:30,310 --> 00:12:32,230 The teachers were telling us about the virus. 174 00:12:32,230 --> 00:12:34,590 They said that sometimes it kills people, 175 00:12:34,590 --> 00:12:38,510 sometimes some people survive from it. 176 00:12:38,510 --> 00:12:41,790 PRODUCER: How long has your dad been in hospital for? Since March. 177 00:12:41,790 --> 00:12:43,310 Two months and some weeks. 178 00:12:45,430 --> 00:12:48,950 I don't know how he caught it. No-one knows, to be honest. 179 00:12:48,950 --> 00:12:52,190 Because during that week, most time, he was home. 180 00:12:52,190 --> 00:12:54,910 PRODUCER: Have you been able to see your dad at all in hospital? 181 00:12:54,910 --> 00:12:59,350 No, but we do do a video call, so we can say hello to him. 182 00:13:00,990 --> 00:13:04,950 Mummy? Yes? When are you going to get the chocolate? 183 00:13:04,950 --> 00:13:08,110 I feel happy that I get to see him, but then I feel sad, 184 00:13:08,110 --> 00:13:11,030 cos it sometimes makes my mum cry, 185 00:13:11,030 --> 00:13:12,710 and then I cry as well. 186 00:13:13,990 --> 00:13:16,710 NURSE: Are you all right? Yes, please, we are ready. 187 00:13:16,710 --> 00:13:18,910 Look at Daddy. SHE CRIES 188 00:13:19,910 --> 00:13:22,510 Are you OK? Yeah. 189 00:13:22,510 --> 00:13:24,870 Sama, we hope you can hear us. 190 00:13:24,870 --> 00:13:26,670 Please come back. THEY CRY 191 00:13:26,670 --> 00:13:29,350 Please come back. 192 00:13:29,350 --> 00:13:32,190 I know... Please come back. 193 00:13:32,190 --> 00:13:33,470 Please come back. 194 00:13:33,470 --> 00:13:36,910 Please come back. Come back! 195 00:13:36,910 --> 00:13:39,990 You all right? Yeah. Thank you. 196 00:13:39,990 --> 00:13:41,630 SHE CRIES 197 00:13:48,910 --> 00:13:51,190 Most of the time, I think about it. 198 00:13:51,190 --> 00:13:52,950 I always think about my dad. 199 00:13:54,830 --> 00:13:57,990 But sometimes I have to try and put it out of my mind 200 00:13:57,990 --> 00:13:59,750 cos it upsets me a lot. 201 00:14:04,190 --> 00:14:08,070 I have to try and help my sisters study a lot. 202 00:14:08,070 --> 00:14:13,430 It's been very hard because they miss my dad too. 203 00:14:13,430 --> 00:14:16,630 My littlest sister, she always cries in the night 204 00:14:16,630 --> 00:14:19,590 and says she misses daddy, she misses daddy. 205 00:14:19,590 --> 00:14:23,390 And then my second sister, she always sleeps with my mum 206 00:14:23,390 --> 00:14:25,750 because she's always scared without daddy. 207 00:14:25,750 --> 00:14:28,470 She says he's the one that protects us in the night 208 00:14:28,470 --> 00:14:31,110 cos he's the strongest, and he's the man of the house. 209 00:14:49,790 --> 00:14:52,390 He's been on his own for such a long time up there now. 210 00:14:52,390 --> 00:14:54,310 PRODUCER: This period he's been in hospital, 211 00:14:54,310 --> 00:14:56,070 is this the longest you two have been apart 212 00:14:56,070 --> 00:14:57,910 since you've been together? Most definitely. 213 00:14:57,910 --> 00:15:00,590 This just seems so cruel. 214 00:15:00,590 --> 00:15:03,150 I've been offered video calls, 215 00:15:03,150 --> 00:15:05,990 but I can't bring myself to do a video call 216 00:15:05,990 --> 00:15:07,910 because, obviously, Dave's asleep. 217 00:15:09,230 --> 00:15:11,670 But today we got the chance to go up there. 218 00:15:11,670 --> 00:15:14,670 And I'm nervous, excited, 219 00:15:14,670 --> 00:15:16,030 cos I want to hold his hand, 220 00:15:16,030 --> 00:15:19,550 I want to touch his skin, and I want to talk to him. 221 00:15:19,550 --> 00:15:22,670 I don't know if he'll hear. 222 00:15:22,670 --> 00:15:24,870 But in my mind, in my heart, he will. 223 00:15:25,950 --> 00:15:27,910 He will. And it will give him... 224 00:15:29,950 --> 00:15:34,550 ..the boost that he needs to do another fight. 225 00:15:36,430 --> 00:15:40,750 This Covid-19, or "Rona", as we call it, 226 00:15:40,750 --> 00:15:43,230 cannot keep pounding him. 227 00:15:44,710 --> 00:15:47,310 It's indescribable. 228 00:15:47,310 --> 00:15:49,670 It's the silent one, isn't it? 229 00:15:49,670 --> 00:15:52,390 But it affects you in so many different ways. 230 00:15:54,310 --> 00:15:55,510 We're off now, love. 231 00:15:55,510 --> 00:15:58,070 Anything you want me to tell Dad? 232 00:15:58,070 --> 00:16:00,590 Uh, yeah. 233 00:16:00,590 --> 00:16:02,350 Hurry up. THEY CHUCKLE 234 00:16:03,590 --> 00:16:05,870 Have you got a key to get in, Mum? Yeah. 235 00:16:05,870 --> 00:16:07,030 Yeah, I've put my keys in. 236 00:16:08,350 --> 00:16:10,230 All right, then. We'll see you later. 237 00:16:10,230 --> 00:16:12,430 Speak to you later, love. See you later. Yeah? 238 00:16:21,590 --> 00:16:25,430 We should remember we have not dealt with the Covid before. 239 00:16:25,430 --> 00:16:27,830 It's also, to us, a new disease. 240 00:16:30,790 --> 00:16:36,190 So David has now developed severe adult respiratory distress syndrome. 241 00:16:36,190 --> 00:16:42,630 And the cause of that is this awful viral disease, the coronavirus. 242 00:16:42,630 --> 00:16:48,470 This is David's CT scan of his chest when David had early symptoms. 243 00:16:48,470 --> 00:16:50,350 What we're looking at here at the moment is 244 00:16:50,350 --> 00:16:53,190 this is what a normal lung should look like, dark. 245 00:16:53,190 --> 00:16:57,230 And if you pay attention, a little bit here on the right side, 246 00:16:57,230 --> 00:17:00,070 you see a little bit of this whiteness coming in there. 247 00:17:00,070 --> 00:17:03,310 For reasons we still haven't understood completely, 248 00:17:03,310 --> 00:17:04,710 that then often progresses. 249 00:17:04,710 --> 00:17:06,710 If you don't get better, that progresses. 250 00:17:06,710 --> 00:17:12,110 So this is a CT scan done when David deteriorated. 251 00:17:12,110 --> 00:17:15,070 That's white. It should be dark. It should be black. 252 00:17:15,070 --> 00:17:18,670 So this whiteness indicates the virus, 253 00:17:18,670 --> 00:17:23,750 and in David's case, there is very little healthy lung left. 254 00:17:23,750 --> 00:17:28,350 So David really reached a stage where not enough oxygen 255 00:17:28,350 --> 00:17:32,990 was getting from the ambient air into his lungs, 256 00:17:32,990 --> 00:17:38,430 so that the oxygen delivery from the lungs to his organs 257 00:17:38,430 --> 00:17:42,990 went down very, very low, and you can imagine what happens then. 258 00:17:42,990 --> 00:17:47,470 All our organs need oxygen to keep working, to be alive. 259 00:17:47,470 --> 00:17:51,870 And if not enough oxygen is delivered, 260 00:17:51,870 --> 00:17:54,950 cells in our body, cells in the organs do die off, 261 00:17:54,950 --> 00:17:58,310 and that often starts with brain cells die off, 262 00:17:58,310 --> 00:18:00,070 cells in the kidneys die off. 263 00:18:00,070 --> 00:18:01,670 They stop functioning, 264 00:18:01,670 --> 00:18:04,110 eventually, if you don't intervene, they die off, 265 00:18:04,110 --> 00:18:06,590 and the patient will die. 266 00:18:06,590 --> 00:18:08,950 This rounded white structure, 267 00:18:08,950 --> 00:18:11,750 this is the breathing tube which sits in the windpipe. 268 00:18:13,790 --> 00:18:16,750 He's completely dependent on the life support machine, 269 00:18:16,750 --> 00:18:18,110 the ventilator. 270 00:18:18,110 --> 00:18:20,030 We would hope we could do better, 271 00:18:20,030 --> 00:18:22,310 we would have a cure for this disease 272 00:18:22,310 --> 00:18:23,950 but, unfortunately, that magic pill 273 00:18:23,950 --> 00:18:26,750 which would allow us to cure these patients quickly 274 00:18:26,750 --> 00:18:29,230 has not been found, and that's the sad side of it. 275 00:18:33,630 --> 00:18:35,670 We're here to see David Hussey. 276 00:18:35,670 --> 00:18:38,150 Are you his relatives? Yes. Lovely. 277 00:18:38,150 --> 00:18:41,510 I'm a pirate. I've got a big head. Is that all right like that? Yes. 278 00:18:41,510 --> 00:18:44,750 And... Then the mask? Yeah. 279 00:18:44,750 --> 00:18:47,030 There we go. 280 00:18:47,030 --> 00:18:48,670 Dave, I'm here. 281 00:18:50,230 --> 00:18:51,430 Oh... 282 00:18:52,790 --> 00:18:55,070 You keep fighting, love. 283 00:18:55,070 --> 00:18:56,430 You keep fighting. 284 00:19:00,390 --> 00:19:02,910 You've gotta come back, haven't you? 285 00:19:07,590 --> 00:19:08,710 Oh... 286 00:19:11,830 --> 00:19:13,190 Oh, look at him. 287 00:19:16,310 --> 00:19:20,950 Look at his nose. That's from the CPAP machine, isn't it? 288 00:19:20,950 --> 00:19:22,510 It's healing well though. Yeah. 289 00:19:23,670 --> 00:19:25,870 Which again is a good sign, isn't it? 290 00:19:27,150 --> 00:19:28,830 Yeah. Of course, me and my thinking, 291 00:19:28,830 --> 00:19:31,870 I'm thinking this is going to make him fight even harder. 292 00:19:31,870 --> 00:19:37,230 He's fighting now, but this is going to make him fight even harder. 293 00:19:37,230 --> 00:19:39,430 Look at his little tiny legs. 294 00:19:42,870 --> 00:19:44,550 But his infection's down. 295 00:19:47,710 --> 00:19:49,270 Come on, babe. 296 00:19:49,270 --> 00:19:51,070 Fishing season's started. 297 00:19:52,510 --> 00:19:55,110 Do you remember when you took Izzy fishing? 298 00:19:55,110 --> 00:19:58,270 And your fishing chair broke, and you ended up on your back 299 00:19:58,270 --> 00:20:00,070 holding your fishing rod? 300 00:20:00,070 --> 00:20:01,870 And we did laugh. 301 00:20:01,870 --> 00:20:04,150 Can I try and hold it? Yeah. 302 00:20:04,150 --> 00:20:05,870 Take a photo of her. 303 00:20:05,870 --> 00:20:08,510 You've got to try and put your hand out the front where my hand is. 304 00:20:08,510 --> 00:20:10,910 Hand at the front. Yeah, that's it. 305 00:20:10,910 --> 00:20:12,190 That's it. That's it. 306 00:20:21,830 --> 00:20:24,150 He's gonna do it. He's gonna do it. 307 00:20:25,630 --> 00:20:27,350 Dave, I'll see you later. 308 00:20:27,350 --> 00:20:29,550 We love you, Dad. Love you. 309 00:20:32,350 --> 00:20:37,870 You do wonder if Covid patients were allowed access 310 00:20:37,870 --> 00:20:39,390 in a more physical way 311 00:20:39,390 --> 00:20:41,870 to their families and vice versa, if... 312 00:20:44,630 --> 00:20:48,470 ..that emotional support that they get 313 00:20:48,470 --> 00:20:50,190 then spurs them on a little bit more... 314 00:20:50,190 --> 00:20:52,230 ..a little bit more than medicine can. 315 00:20:52,230 --> 00:20:54,590 You know, love's a funny thing, isn't it? 316 00:20:54,590 --> 00:20:58,550 And it can make you fight for things that little bit harder. 317 00:20:58,550 --> 00:21:03,470 It's not a measurable science, is it, unconditional love? 318 00:21:03,470 --> 00:21:05,230 But there's definitely a value to it. 319 00:21:18,310 --> 00:21:20,030 FAINT CHATTERING 320 00:21:23,790 --> 00:21:25,310 Thank you so much. 321 00:21:31,390 --> 00:21:33,310 FAINT: Sama? 322 00:21:34,590 --> 00:21:35,790 Are you OK? 323 00:21:45,110 --> 00:21:46,230 Luckiest man. 324 00:21:48,030 --> 00:21:50,550 This is a man with a good wife. 325 00:21:50,550 --> 00:21:55,190 And I'm lucky to have this woman. 326 00:22:02,910 --> 00:22:06,310 I didn't even know that I was... 327 00:22:06,310 --> 00:22:10,630 ..I was told that I've been here over four months. 328 00:22:10,630 --> 00:22:11,990 I would have lost my kids... 329 00:22:14,350 --> 00:22:15,550 ..but here I am. 330 00:22:19,670 --> 00:22:21,390 No cry, Daddy. It's OK. 331 00:22:27,910 --> 00:22:31,470 We've got three kids. 332 00:22:31,470 --> 00:22:33,670 They're so lovely. 333 00:22:36,150 --> 00:22:37,910 I can't wait to see them. 334 00:22:39,790 --> 00:22:42,630 I can't wait to see them. Yeah. 335 00:22:42,630 --> 00:22:43,790 Eat. 336 00:22:54,390 --> 00:22:56,110 He's very lucky to be here. 337 00:22:56,110 --> 00:22:58,670 He was in what we call multi-organ failure. 338 00:22:58,670 --> 00:23:01,590 They did not expect Sama to survive, 339 00:23:01,590 --> 00:23:03,350 so he's very lucky. 340 00:23:03,350 --> 00:23:06,870 And in the last week, he's made remarkable progress. 341 00:23:06,870 --> 00:23:09,310 But 59 days in ITU, 342 00:23:09,310 --> 00:23:12,750 it can take people up to two years to get back to normal. 343 00:23:12,750 --> 00:23:14,510 He's still got a long way to go. 344 00:23:35,630 --> 00:23:37,830 IN SPANISH: 345 00:23:39,510 --> 00:23:43,230 He's still completely dependent on the ventilation. 346 00:23:43,230 --> 00:23:47,950 And now his brain has failed, and he has a brain haemorrhage, 347 00:23:47,950 --> 00:23:50,590 and he's had a stroke. 348 00:23:50,590 --> 00:23:53,270 One of the reasons it's so important 349 00:23:53,270 --> 00:23:56,630 having his step-daughter there is it's a familiar face, 350 00:23:56,630 --> 00:23:59,030 she can speak Spanish, it's a familiar language. 351 00:24:06,990 --> 00:24:09,510 IN ENGLISH: 352 00:24:09,510 --> 00:24:10,950 IN SPANISH: 353 00:25:08,750 --> 00:25:12,430 IN ENGLISH: Today is better than yesterday, yes. Better? 354 00:25:12,430 --> 00:25:14,150 Better than yesterday. 355 00:25:14,150 --> 00:25:17,630 I bring some photos today. This was my mother. 356 00:25:17,630 --> 00:25:21,950 Beautiful. Yes. She passed away two years ago. 357 00:25:21,950 --> 00:25:23,350 Oh, I'm sorry. Yes. 358 00:25:23,350 --> 00:25:25,750 But I think he'll like these photos. 359 00:25:35,870 --> 00:25:37,750 IN SPANISH: 360 00:26:32,230 --> 00:26:34,510 So it's possible that he could get through this 361 00:26:34,510 --> 00:26:37,230 and have significant...consequences. 362 00:26:37,230 --> 00:26:40,630 So, will he be able to, you know, talk? 363 00:26:40,630 --> 00:26:42,430 And he may have memory loss. 364 00:26:42,430 --> 00:26:46,270 He may have a whole number of neurological conditions. 365 00:26:46,270 --> 00:26:49,110 You know, and in that context, it all sounds pretty bleak 366 00:26:49,110 --> 00:26:55,710 but, again...it's impossible to tell at this stage. 367 00:26:55,710 --> 00:26:57,150 IN SPANISH: 368 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:26,120 Good afternoon, Tobi. My name's Emma. 369 00:27:26,120 --> 00:27:28,760 I'm one of the specialist nurses here. OK. 370 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:31,120 How are you doing today? I'm fine. 371 00:27:31,120 --> 00:27:34,960 Can I just ask you a couple of questions? OK. OK. Lovely. 372 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,800 Can you tell me where we are? What's this place? 373 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:41,920 EMMA CHUCKLES 374 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:44,280 Do you know, we're at King's College Hospital? 375 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:47,440 Can you see or hear anything that's unusual? No. 376 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:50,520 Is there anything that's worrying you? No. 377 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:53,240 Do you like Premier Radio? Yeah. 378 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:56,160 Shall we put a tune on for you? Yeah. 379 00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:58,560 Would you like to hear some? OK. 380 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:00,320 It's a Christian radio, 381 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,240 and you can get it on YouTube actually, Katherine. 382 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:09,000 GOSPEL MUSIC PLAYS 383 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:17,680 The thing is he's a pastor so he's used to delivering the sermons. 384 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:22,080 But obviously his whole life is around his faith, 385 00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:26,000 so anything that we can do to keep that going for him... Yeah. 386 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:27,680 At the end of the day, he's 52. 387 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:30,600 He's got a lot of future to... Still quite young, isn't he? 388 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:33,160 Yeah, a lot of life to live out, hasn't he? 389 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:43,200 The thing about Tobi, he's fluctuated, 390 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,480 so there's times when he's a lot more alert than other times, 391 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:47,480 other times he's really drowsy, 392 00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:49,720 so it's ongoing delirium. 393 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:56,440 Prior to admission to hospital, he had no cognitive problems, 394 00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:59,800 and he's developed those acutely, you know, on the back of the Covid. 395 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:06,280 I think people associate delirium with older people but, of course, 396 00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:09,440 we are seeing a lot more younger patients with delirium, 397 00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:10,760 and it's very distressing, 398 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:12,720 not just for the patient 399 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:14,600 but also their families and staff, as well. 400 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:19,840 You hope it's a temporary sort of impact on the brain, 401 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:23,840 but I would really hope he's going to go back to... 402 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:26,120 ..some sense of normality. 403 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:28,440 But I can't... 404 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:30,160 ..I can't say for sure. 405 00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:39,440 We cannot under-estimate the importance of family - 406 00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:44,440 has to, will undoubtedly improve his recovery. 407 00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:46,880 Hello. Oh, see, Tobi? 408 00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:48,720 How are you, my love? 409 00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:51,760 Hello, Dad. How are you, my son? 410 00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:53,520 Doing very well. 411 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:55,360 How are you feeling, Dad? 412 00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:58,960 I'm doing fine, my son. 413 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:02,040 I miss you so much. 414 00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:03,760 Yes, my love, I miss you, too. 415 00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:06,120 You've been so strong, Dad. Thank you, son. 416 00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:08,040 You've been so strong this whole time. 417 00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:09,760 Thank you, son. 418 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:11,200 It really means a lot. 419 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:14,480 You know, I've finished university now. Mm? 420 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:15,680 Yeah. 421 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,120 I got a First, as well. 422 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:20,400 I got my final results. First? 423 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:23,240 I got a First in my undergraduate. 424 00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:24,840 OK. 425 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:27,760 What music do you want to hear, Dad? 426 00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:29,720 Shall I play me playing saxophone? 427 00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:31,280 Hmm? 428 00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:34,080 Do you want to hear a song that I produced? 429 00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:40,240 MUSIC PLAYS ON PHONE 430 00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:01,320 TOBI SINGS 431 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:06,640 THEY SING TOGETHER 432 00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:40,480 I can't believe, to be honest, like, when I go there, 433 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:42,040 he's still joyful - 434 00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:44,960 the amount of resilience is unreal to me. 435 00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:47,680 When you get to, like, that level of physiological attack, 436 00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:51,640 where your body is trying to get rid of you, 437 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:55,000 that's when, like, the willpower kicks in. 438 00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:00,320 For my dad to go through something like that for 90 days 439 00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:03,080 and to come out and he's not like, "Oh, it was horrible," 440 00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,080 he doesn't say anything like that at all. 441 00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:07,760 I haven't heard him say anything like that, even once. 442 00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:10,400 It's just mad to me. It's actually mad. 443 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:14,280 Like, his heart stopped a couple of times, things like that. 444 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:17,120 However he comes back, he's still my dad. I still love him. 445 00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:21,520 For me, like, the work that he's done already just staying alive 446 00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:25,160 has just showed me so...it's taught me so much about resilience. 447 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:29,400 It's taught me so much about, like, life, love, family. 448 00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:41,000 Lean yourself forwards. 449 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:52,520 So April was the last time you were outside? Gosh. 450 00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:54,360 So it's now June. 451 00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:56,240 What would be really nice 452 00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:59,160 is if we can do some more with your shoulders 453 00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:01,880 to try and work on that range of movement 454 00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:05,200 and get the strength around your shoulders going. 455 00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:08,880 And then I think we need to start trying some standing. 456 00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,560 He couldn't keep his eyes open when I first saw him. 457 00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:14,160 I saw him the day he stepped down from Intensive Care, 458 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:16,880 and a lot of our patients have been on Intensive Care 459 00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:18,960 for a long period of time 460 00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:21,480 so you lose a lot of your muscle mass. 461 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:24,080 You can't just get out of bed and go. 462 00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:26,760 So we're trying to progress people 463 00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:30,800 so that they can get back to their previous lives. 464 00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:33,960 Do you want to show us how you use this? 465 00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:36,440 You can't? Have a go. We can help you with it. Try it. 466 00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:39,040 Good. 467 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:42,600 Got it. Can you go lower on your back? 468 00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:49,480 Good. 469 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:53,600 Are you OK? You tired? 470 00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:57,240 Are you all right? Can you look at me? 471 00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:58,720 OK? Yeah. 472 00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:01,280 Just tired? Are you tired? 473 00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:04,560 People have a huge amount of things to rebuild in their lives. 474 00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:08,120 We need to up the availability of rehab in the community, 475 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:10,120 in out-patient clinics. 476 00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:13,360 There's just going to be so many needs going forward, 477 00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:16,080 that isn't going to be met by the current system. 478 00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:18,760 So, yeah, things will look quite different, I think. 479 00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:37,280 BEEPING 480 00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:38,320 OK. 481 00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:43,440 So, unfortunately, David's just had a deterioration. 482 00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:45,200 There was a blood pressure issue 483 00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:47,600 and also his oxygen levels have dropped. 484 00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:53,400 We're still struggling to put the line in. 485 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,240 Still struggling to put the line in, OK. 486 00:35:55,240 --> 00:35:57,760 This doesn't look like there's any bleeding, right? 487 00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:00,480 I can't see that. What happened suddenly? 488 00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:02,040 INDISTINCT REPLY 489 00:36:03,240 --> 00:36:04,600 Oh, thanks very much. 490 00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:14,720 So, I mean, David had, really, an acutely life-threatening event. 491 00:36:14,720 --> 00:36:19,920 He very quickly, very suddenly dropped his blood pressure 492 00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:23,440 to, really, levels which are not compatible with life. 493 00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:25,640 It's a very complex issue here. 494 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,720 Thank you. All right, just hold on one second... 495 00:36:37,720 --> 00:36:39,280 Yeah, no problem. OK. 496 00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:41,160 QUIET PIANO MUSIC 497 00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:49,040 It's nice that they've got music playing. Yeah, it is, yeah. 498 00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:52,600 Plinky plonky, Dad would call that. Plinky plonky. Yeah. 499 00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:03,000 I know he's really poorly. 500 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:04,720 I'm not kidding myself. 501 00:37:04,720 --> 00:37:07,000 But we've got hope, OK? 502 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:08,640 With situations like this, 503 00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:10,640 it's not a case of one big thing... 504 00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:13,240 No. ..going badly wrong. 505 00:37:13,240 --> 00:37:15,760 It's a question of, you know, 506 00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:18,200 lots and lots of little hurdles 507 00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:22,720 which we're not quite clearing. Yes, yeah. You know... OK. 508 00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:25,640 Right. 509 00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:28,720 He's continuing to have problems with his ventilation 510 00:37:28,720 --> 00:37:31,080 because his lungs are very stiff 511 00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:34,840 and they're very badly damaged from the Covid. Right. OK. 512 00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:37,920 And his other organs have not yet, 513 00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:41,720 particularly his kidneys, not yet shown any signs of recovery. 514 00:37:41,720 --> 00:37:44,560 But you've not stopped trying, though, have you? 515 00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:47,040 No, no, we've not stopped trying. And you won't, will you? 516 00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:49,920 And we're not at the point where we will stop trying, OK? 517 00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:51,560 That's all I want to hear. Yeah. 518 00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:53,280 It sounds silly... No, I know. 519 00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:55,600 ..and I know it's a long, long road. Yeah. 520 00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:57,280 He's still fighting. 521 00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:00,400 Yeah. Yeah. 522 00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:03,440 And I hope he will keep fighting. Oh, yeah. 523 00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:08,640 If things go well, he's going to be here for a long time... Mm-hm. Yeah. 524 00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:11,360 ..and, you know, you'll need to kind of pace yourself 525 00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:13,040 and spread that out. Yeah. 526 00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:16,200 And obviously, if things go badly, then we'll be telling you 527 00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:19,600 and we'll make sure that you can visit. Yeah. OK. All right. 528 00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:26,720 I know what they're trying to say. 529 00:38:26,720 --> 00:38:28,920 They have to prepare you, but... 530 00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:32,280 ..I'm not ready to be prepared yet. 531 00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:37,280 Cos he's got fight in him, hasn't he? Yeah. 532 00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:41,760 The hope you get from yourself, you get within, 533 00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,040 you get from your family. 534 00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:46,640 And it's hell to live through, 535 00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:49,400 but then when you get a glimmer of hope the next day, 536 00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,840 so you start on that all over again. 537 00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:06,000 And you can't imagine life without them, can you? 538 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:07,560 No, there's things he's got to do. 539 00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:09,840 He's got plans. 540 00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:11,200 We've got plans for him. 541 00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:22,080 My name's Fernando, we're going to take you home. 542 00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:23,920 You're ready to go, yeah? I'm ready to go. 543 00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:28,160 You have all your paperworks, all your medication? Yeah. 544 00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:36,240 Physically, at the moment, I'm tired. 545 00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:44,560 I think I need a long, long, long sleep when I get home. 546 00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:53,360 Today will be one of the most happiest days in my life. 547 00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:55,640 I don't want to cry any more. 548 00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:57,320 I've been crying a lot. 549 00:39:59,920 --> 00:40:03,080 I just want the showers of blessing to flow now. 550 00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:05,560 My dad's going to come home today! 551 00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:07,840 He's going to come home on my birthday, 552 00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:10,360 and it already is my birthday, 553 00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:14,040 so he's going to come home today. 554 00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:19,640 He was in hospital a long time, because he got the coronavirus. 555 00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:23,920 Majidah's birthday today. 556 00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:27,200 I'm going to be there, you know. 557 00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:41,040 Oh, that's the ambulance. See where they go? They are out. 558 00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:44,560 INAUDIBLE 559 00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:49,400 Daddy, it's my birthday today. I know. Daddy knows. 560 00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:06,920 WEAKLY: Hello, guys. How are you? 561 00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:07,920 How are you? 562 00:42:09,720 --> 00:42:11,160 Please... 563 00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:19,720 Go to daddy. Come on, it's OK. 564 00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:30,960 FAINTLY: It's just a matter of time. OK? 565 00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:35,200 Really, really, it's just a matter of time. 566 00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:38,720 You'll bounce back. OK? 567 00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:51,200 Happy birthday. Thank you, Daddy. Did you get the best birthday? Yeah. 568 00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:55,720 I love you guys. TOGETHER: We love you too. 569 00:42:55,720 --> 00:42:56,920 I love you, all of you. 570 00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:15,400 So, Mr Hussey's a 62-year-old gentleman 571 00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:17,080 who was clinically doing OK 572 00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:20,080 for a period of two to three weeks on the ward, 573 00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:22,760 but, unfortunately, there's been deterioration 574 00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:26,480 with multiple organ dysfunction, 575 00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:28,800 so that's where we are. 576 00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:30,480 How's his family? 577 00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:32,360 People have been speaking to them this week, 578 00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:34,640 and they understand he's extremely unwell, 579 00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:37,320 that he's unlikely to survive, 580 00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:40,680 but they remain hopeful, like everybody else. 581 00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:43,800 So they do know how bad the situation is. 582 00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:46,880 So, we'll get the family together and maybe we'll get... 583 00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:51,280 Uh-huh. ..yourself to come along and start having the conversations. 584 00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:56,880 So I think with David, 585 00:43:56,880 --> 00:44:01,760 we are reaching the end of what intensive care can offer him. 586 00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:07,440 All of his vital organs have stopped being able to keep him alive. 587 00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:12,080 Once we recognise that the treatments that we're giving 588 00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:14,640 aren't going to enable him to recover 589 00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:17,000 and that his death is inevitable, 590 00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:20,680 then the choice, really, becomes between what we call a good death, 591 00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:25,000 so a death that his family have some time to prepare for, 592 00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:26,440 versus an uncontrolled death, 593 00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:28,320 which might happen in the middle of the night 594 00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:31,640 with a very sudden deterioration or a cardiac arrest 595 00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:35,960 and no opportunities for them to be with him, 596 00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:37,720 or to say their goodbyes 597 00:44:37,720 --> 00:44:42,120 or to address any of his sort of wider holistic needs, 598 00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:44,320 be they emotional, spiritual or whatever. 599 00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:37,040 Have you got the shroud in here? What's that, sorry? 600 00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:38,760 Have you got the shroud in here? 601 00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:44,600 Right, David, I'm just going to take your blanket off there. 602 00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:46,640 There we go. 603 00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:50,280 Right, David, I'm just going to give you a wee wash, all right? 604 00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:52,120 There we go. 605 00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:55,360 So I've looked after him the last three shifts in a row. 606 00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:58,520 I used to always wash him in the morning. 607 00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:01,880 Right, David, I'm just going to wash the soap off you here. 608 00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:03,760 There we go. 609 00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:06,240 It was really lovely because when he was first admitted 610 00:46:06,240 --> 00:46:09,240 he wasn't intubated or anything. 611 00:46:09,240 --> 00:46:10,960 Yeah. A really nice man. 612 00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:14,240 Right, David, just drying your neck off there, 613 00:46:14,240 --> 00:46:15,680 and your shoulders. 614 00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:19,560 So this is called "last offices". 615 00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:23,040 We just treat them like they were there before, so there's no change. 616 00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:26,000 So we still talk to them, just to show respect. 617 00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:30,440 And I've looked after him so much, I feel like I know him, so... 618 00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:35,440 But a lot of it for us is, because of the intensity of the situation, 619 00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:37,000 it's always life and death, 620 00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:39,280 so you just get to know them really well. 621 00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:41,000 And if they make a recovery, 622 00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:44,280 then it's just a real privilege to be there for that. 623 00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:48,920 And even in death, it's a privilege to be there 624 00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:50,360 because it's the last moment. 625 00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:52,120 I see that as a privilege as well. 626 00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:58,000 Right, David, we're just going to pop your feet in here. 627 00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:05,760 OK. I'm going to lift your head up for a minute, David. 628 00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:33,160 What I'm doing here is recording the names of patients 629 00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:35,920 who have died in this hospital 630 00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:40,880 as a result of the recent Covid-19 pandemic. 631 00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:45,280 I'm used to filling in these memorial books once a year, 632 00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:49,320 but I've been called in specially to do an extra batch 633 00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:55,600 because there has been an enormous surge in names to be recorded. 634 00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:09,400 It does feel important that the names are not forgotten. 635 00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:11,240 It matters to people. 636 00:48:11,240 --> 00:48:15,120 They're not going to wind up carved on a monument somewhere. 637 00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:20,000 These are our people of our streets who died. 638 00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:27,440 I must say it's, um, it's a bit of a shock to my system 639 00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:31,840 to be putting lots and lots of names down on the same day, it is. 640 00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:34,200 It's not the way this has worked for me. 641 00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:37,040 I'm usually working steadily through the whole year, 642 00:48:37,040 --> 00:48:41,360 and there are three or four names a week, maybe. 643 00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:43,200 So that's all a bit different. 644 00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:05,920 Because it's very hot, Tobi, 645 00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:08,520 I'm just giving you a little bit at a time. OK. 646 00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:11,720 Until it cools down properly, OK? 647 00:49:11,720 --> 00:49:14,360 Thank you. You're welcome, Tobi. 648 00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:16,640 Would you like some more? No. 649 00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:18,120 OK. 650 00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:20,480 Tobi has come a long way. 651 00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:23,800 We give him a wash 652 00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:27,160 and feed him with all his meals, 653 00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:29,960 help him with toileting. 654 00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:31,520 That's what we do each and every day, 655 00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:34,160 make sure that he's taken care of. 656 00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:36,760 The Covid had really affected Tobi badly. 657 00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:39,880 But he's with us, and he's alive, 658 00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:43,560 and to the point now where he's planning to go home. 659 00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:45,600 So that's really good news for us. 660 00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:46,920 And he's a nice man. 661 00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:49,200 Tobi is a nice man to take care of. 662 00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:50,720 He is. He is. 663 00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:58,160 We're going to miss him. 664 00:49:58,160 --> 00:49:59,600 Come on, let me clean your mouth. 665 00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:01,160 Let me clean your mouth. 666 00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:30,880 Tobi's been with us for just short of six months in the hospital. 667 00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:32,480 He has survived Covid 668 00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:36,320 but he has been very severely affected by Covid. 669 00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:41,080 He will not fully recover the brain function that he had before this. 670 00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:44,960 We're planning to discharge him with an awful lot of care 671 00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:46,600 and support in the community. 672 00:51:43,540 --> 00:51:46,260 Put you back in bed, yeah? OK. 673 00:51:46,260 --> 00:51:50,140 OK. 674 00:51:50,140 --> 00:51:54,460 So this is your letter of bye-bye to King's College. 675 00:51:54,460 --> 00:51:57,620 Hooray! Tobi, you are free to go. 676 00:51:57,620 --> 00:51:59,300 Thank you. Thank you. 677 00:52:00,620 --> 00:52:03,780 It's been a long journey, the longest journey. 678 00:52:03,780 --> 00:52:05,820 I'm grateful to God. 679 00:52:05,820 --> 00:52:08,540 I will thank God for giving this. Love you. 680 00:52:08,540 --> 00:52:09,620 I love you. 681 00:52:10,740 --> 00:52:12,340 He's a good fighter. 682 00:52:12,340 --> 00:52:16,740 And I can say it's such an emotional period. 683 00:52:16,740 --> 00:52:17,900 Oh, God... SHE CRIES 684 00:53:11,180 --> 00:53:13,380 Love! 685 00:53:27,140 --> 00:53:28,660 I love you, son. 686 00:53:30,220 --> 00:53:32,060 I love you, Dad. I love you, too. 687 00:53:36,660 --> 00:53:38,020 SHE LAUGHS 688 00:53:40,580 --> 00:53:42,260 IN SPANISH: 689 00:53:54,580 --> 00:53:58,420 He has been stuck on this level for a little while. 690 00:53:58,420 --> 00:54:01,340 There's been marginal improvements and gains. 691 00:54:01,340 --> 00:54:05,660 And so, you know, we're all concerned that this may be 692 00:54:05,660 --> 00:54:07,180 the best that he could get to. 693 00:54:08,740 --> 00:54:11,180 He is a bit unique in the sense that 694 00:54:11,180 --> 00:54:14,220 this is really going on for quite some time now. 695 00:54:14,220 --> 00:54:17,900 You know, I suspect he's heading to being one of the longest stays 696 00:54:17,900 --> 00:54:20,100 on Intensive Care in the UK. 697 00:55:44,420 --> 00:55:46,620 UNTRANSLATED 698 00:55:53,060 --> 00:55:55,580 Sorry, I was going to ask, can he sit over there. 699 00:55:55,580 --> 00:55:57,860 He just want to feel some sun a little bit. 700 00:55:57,860 --> 00:56:00,500 Sorry guys. Yeah, thank you. 701 00:56:00,500 --> 00:56:02,620 Just for five minutes. 702 00:56:02,620 --> 00:56:05,620 Yeah, it's been a while. He's not been out, so... 703 00:56:05,620 --> 00:56:07,340 Oh, bless. Let me come out your way, love. 704 00:56:07,340 --> 00:56:09,700 Thank you so much. Just over there. 705 00:56:09,700 --> 00:56:12,180 Sorry guys. No problem, mate. You take care. Everything OK? 706 00:56:12,180 --> 00:56:14,540 Yeah. He's been in hospital for long, for months. 707 00:56:14,540 --> 00:56:16,300 What with, not the virus? Yeah. Really, yeah? 708 00:56:16,300 --> 00:56:19,220 Yeah, I was there for three months. You're a fighter, then, aren't you? 709 00:56:19,220 --> 00:56:21,660 Yeah, he is. Yeah. Yeah, that's it. I wish you all the best. 710 00:56:21,660 --> 00:56:24,300 Thank you very much. He was like on 60 days on vent. Jesus Christ! 711 00:56:24,300 --> 00:56:26,980 You've done really well. Well done, mate. Thank you. 712 00:56:26,980 --> 00:56:28,780 Have a bit of sun to you. 713 00:56:28,780 --> 00:56:31,180 Put it up to your face. 714 00:56:31,180 --> 00:56:32,500 That's it. 715 00:56:34,380 --> 00:56:35,940 Did you shut the door? 716 00:56:38,220 --> 00:56:41,580 You OK? Yeah, thank you. 717 00:56:41,580 --> 00:56:43,860 I'm just so happy to be here, to be alive. 718 00:56:46,060 --> 00:56:50,300 At times it gets into your head and you start being emotional. 719 00:56:55,500 --> 00:56:57,700 Thank you, Maj. You're welcome, Daddy. 720 00:56:58,620 --> 00:56:59,820 Thank you. 721 00:57:00,980 --> 00:57:02,380 I appreciate this, yeah. 722 00:57:04,180 --> 00:57:06,100 I love you. I love you too, Daddy. 723 00:57:06,100 --> 00:57:08,380 She's been looking after me. 724 00:57:08,380 --> 00:57:10,580 You know, they keep me going. 725 00:57:13,180 --> 00:57:15,380 Are you OK? You don't tire? Oh, that's OK. 726 00:57:16,540 --> 00:57:18,740 You enjoy the sun, yeah? Yeah. 727 00:57:20,420 --> 00:57:21,980 I'm 52. 728 00:57:21,980 --> 00:57:24,380 I'm a health care professional. 729 00:57:24,380 --> 00:57:29,220 I'll be back. That's my expectation, to bounce back strongly. 730 00:57:29,220 --> 00:57:30,980 Even stronger than before. 731 00:57:32,620 --> 00:57:35,180 And I believe by next week, 732 00:57:35,180 --> 00:57:37,500 I will be independent, you know? 733 00:57:37,500 --> 00:57:39,020 Yeah. 734 00:57:44,100 --> 00:57:45,820 HE GROANS 735 00:57:50,140 --> 00:57:51,820 UNTRANSLATED 736 00:57:51,820 --> 00:57:53,580 Move back. Hm? 737 00:57:53,580 --> 00:57:55,140 No, wait. 738 00:57:57,300 --> 00:57:59,580 Wait. Gently, gently, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. 739 00:57:59,580 --> 00:58:01,780 Wait, wait, wait. 740 00:58:04,420 --> 00:58:05,380 Sorry. 741 00:58:06,860 --> 00:58:08,580 Thank you, guys. 742 00:58:08,580 --> 00:58:10,780 Thank you. You look after yourself. Yeah. 743 00:58:12,740 --> 00:58:15,380 We'll be strong, yeah? Yeah. 744 00:58:17,300 --> 00:58:20,260 Wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait. 745 00:58:24,420 --> 00:58:25,900 Come back. 746 00:58:42,350 --> 00:58:42,510 MUSIC: Knockin' On Heaven's Door by Bob Dylan 747 00:58:53,670 --> 00:58:56,990 # Mama, take this badge off of me 748 00:59:00,470 --> 00:59:03,790 # I can't use it any more...# 749 00:59:05,390 --> 00:59:10,630 It never crossed my mind that he wouldn't make it. 750 00:59:10,630 --> 00:59:12,830 He was only 62. 751 00:59:14,390 --> 00:59:17,750 # I feel I'm knockin' on heaven's door 752 00:59:21,190 --> 00:59:25,910 # Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door... # 753 00:59:25,910 --> 00:59:28,110 And I do remember asking them... 754 00:59:29,630 --> 00:59:33,510 "Are you telling me you're giving up on my husband?" 755 00:59:33,510 --> 00:59:35,190 But they didn't. 756 00:59:35,190 --> 00:59:38,070 They never gave up on him. 757 00:59:38,070 --> 00:59:44,510 And then we saw him and we were able to be there when he died. 758 00:59:44,510 --> 00:59:49,670 And then when we were ready, they switched the machine off. 759 00:59:51,950 --> 00:59:55,870 And, yeah, he just slipped away. 760 01:00:00,270 --> 01:00:02,070 The hardest day. 761 01:00:02,070 --> 01:00:03,910 Hardest day. 762 01:00:07,790 --> 01:00:11,550 When Covid first come round and we went into lockdown 763 01:00:11,550 --> 01:00:15,870 and we thought it was a made up story, we honestly did. 764 01:00:18,590 --> 01:00:20,790 Now, I've just got to... 765 01:00:23,390 --> 01:00:25,870 ..move on without him. 766 01:00:25,870 --> 01:00:27,630 And I've never had that in my life 767 01:00:27,630 --> 01:00:32,390 because we were together for 40 odd years. 768 01:00:32,390 --> 01:00:36,030 Everything I learnt, we learnt together as a couple. 769 01:00:38,310 --> 01:00:39,790 So, yeah... 770 01:00:40,910 --> 01:00:44,030 I'd hate anyone to go through this. 771 01:00:44,030 --> 01:00:45,230 I'd hate it. 772 01:01:06,910 --> 01:01:09,430 Alexa, read the Bible. 773 01:01:09,430 --> 01:01:11,270 Genesis. 774 01:01:11,270 --> 01:01:14,230 Alexa, read Genesis. 775 01:01:16,030 --> 01:01:19,310 ALEXA: In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth... 776 01:01:56,270 --> 01:01:57,430 Or the news! 777 01:01:59,030 --> 01:01:59,990 HE CHUCKLES 778 01:02:11,430 --> 01:02:14,270 My mum, she's, like, shouldered so much of it. 779 01:02:15,750 --> 01:02:18,110 There is the element of it being like, 780 01:02:18,110 --> 01:02:19,670 "Oh, well, it's not the same as before." 781 01:02:19,670 --> 01:02:21,030 That's fairly sad. 782 01:02:22,790 --> 01:02:26,230 But, you know, he's making a lot of development, a lot of strides. 783 01:02:26,230 --> 01:02:29,910 A lot of the time I see him back to himself in many ways. 784 01:02:31,430 --> 01:02:34,630 That's still Dad, like his spirit, his soul. 785 01:02:36,390 --> 01:02:38,310 All right, my love? 786 01:02:38,310 --> 01:02:42,310 # As we gather Lord Jesus 787 01:02:42,310 --> 01:02:48,270 # As we gather may we glorify Your name 788 01:02:50,150 --> 01:02:56,950 # As we gather may we glorify Your name, Jesus 789 01:02:58,510 --> 01:03:03,590 # We will be blessed because we are here. # 790 01:03:06,310 --> 01:03:07,750 Father, I will thank you. 791 01:03:07,750 --> 01:03:08,790 Thank you, Father. 792 01:03:21,910 --> 01:03:24,110 IN SPANISH: 793 01:04:16,070 --> 01:04:19,470 So, the first thing that's striking is he just looks fantastic. 794 01:04:19,470 --> 01:04:22,470 He's been on a ventilator. He's been sedated for months. 795 01:04:24,870 --> 01:04:26,350 You know, it's amazing, really. 796 01:04:26,350 --> 01:04:27,550 It really is incredible. 797 01:04:27,550 --> 01:04:34,470 And what's kind of staggering is that he's talking so lucidly. 798 01:04:36,110 --> 01:04:38,390 He is an extraordinary patient. 799 01:04:38,390 --> 01:04:40,070 I'll never forget him, yeah. 800 01:04:40,070 --> 01:04:42,350 I won't forget him, I hope. 801 01:04:42,350 --> 01:04:44,110 Of course I won't forget him. 802 01:04:59,110 --> 01:05:01,430 SHE LAUGHS 803 01:05:24,110 --> 01:05:26,310 SHE CRIES QUIETLY 804 01:06:06,190 --> 01:06:09,550 We've all learnt about this illness as it's evolved 805 01:06:09,550 --> 01:06:12,150 and he's just remained with us throughout that. 806 01:06:12,150 --> 01:06:15,550 I think there's probably something fairly symbolic for us about that. 807 01:06:19,030 --> 01:06:21,710 The unpredictability remains. 808 01:06:21,710 --> 01:06:25,510 We all hope this sense of unpredictability would end. 809 01:06:25,510 --> 01:06:28,150 We know that there's more to come. 810 01:06:28,150 --> 01:06:30,150 The winter's going to be really hard 811 01:06:30,150 --> 01:06:32,910 and we are starting to see more hospital admissions 812 01:06:32,910 --> 01:06:38,230 and the scale of this is completely unprecedented. 813 01:06:39,630 --> 01:06:40,910 It's frightening. 814 01:06:40,910 --> 01:06:43,310 It's frightening for all of us. 815 01:06:43,310 --> 01:06:47,710 I think we know at some point there's going to be an end to this, 816 01:06:47,710 --> 01:06:51,430 but it's going to be quite hard to define when that is. 817 01:07:50,910 --> 01:07:53,870 Subtitles by Red Bee Media