A Glasgow nurse has written a heartbreaking poem about her experience of working with coronavirus patients.
Sarah Pirie, who works at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, left friends and family stunned with her poem that details the trauma being experienced by NHS staff on the frontline.
The 30-year-old from Craigton has been a nurse for three and a half years and said writing her feelings down was a form of ‘self-counselling’ to help deal with her work.
Sarah told Glasgow Live : “I was really upset over a patient that took not well, I cried a lot that shift.
"Covid patients can deteriorate really quickly and they were ok when day shift handed over and within a couple of hours of my starting shift, I'd called the family and we had started them on palliative meds.
"It's hard enough losing a patient, but I've never been in the situation where they have had family who can’t be there, so I've never heard someones last words.
“The QEUH is all single rooms, and even before that you would have always given a family space and privacy, so it was heartbreaking listening to them.
“I couldn’t talk about it because I'd just cry and I thought writing it might help. I don’t know why I decided to write a poem but I came up with that in less than an hour, it wasn’t meant for anyone else just for me.
“No one wants a bad death and as a nurse, you are the person responsible for giving someone a good death.”
Sarah has shared the poem in the hope that it will encourage people to stay home and save lives.
