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Cardiograph is a fast and reliable way to measure your heart rate on iPhone and iPad. Using only...

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Blood Pressure Monitor - Family Lite turns your device into a personal blood pressure and weight...

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Live the life of a Grizzly Bear! Survive as a young bear in a forest filled with dangerous...

ClareR (5674 KP) rated Many Different Kinds of Love: A Story of Life, Death and The NHS in Books

Apr 6, 2021

This is the story of Michael Rosen’s experience with Covid-19. How he became ill, then very ill, was hospitalised, put on a ventilator for 48 days, and his hard work back to good health - with complications included.
I can remember being really worried when Michael Rosen said he was feeling unwell last year, and even more so when it was reported that he had been taken in to hospital. There was that long period where I could only imagine how distressed his family must have been feeling.
This book documents it all. There are the diary entries from the carers whilst Michael Rosen was in an induced coma: the nurses, physiotherapists, speech and language therapists - all those from right across the NHS who helped him, turned him, talked to him, kept him clean and made sure that he heard from his family. They clearly did an amazing job, and this showed the sheer volume of people who cared for him.
It’s a really moving book. I read much of this with a lump in my throat and tears in my eyes. And of course there were the funny bits, as there always is with Michael Rosen.
I’m just so glad he made it. This book is going on the Keeper Shelf, because this will be a book that we will all look back on in years to come, when memories of Covid-19 start to dim.