As the #covidinquiryuk turned to care settings this is a stark reminder of how badly those in care were affected. Unless you sat the wrong side of a window staring at your loved ones it is very hard to explain #Stilllockedaway #GloriasLaw #RightsForResidents
As the #covidinquiryuk turned to care settings this is a stark reminder of how badly those in care were affected. Unless you sat the wrong side of a window staring at your loved ones it is very hard to explain #Stilllockedaway #GloriasLaw #RightsForResidents
@rightsforresid2 Dad died in 2020, not of COVID, but because of COVID. He had dementia and I know he lost any will he had by not being able to be in the same room as his loved ones. He wasted away so very quickly with the light gone from his eyes
@rightsforresid2 People don’t understand the trauma, unless they FELT it. It still feels very raw doesn’t it. Mum looking through a screen bewildered 😢😢😢 #GloriasLaw
@rightsforresid2 What kills me is that people in power etc...will never understand how it was for ordinary people who were locked away and their families who will never recover from this world-wide. They don't care as it didn't happen to them @LeoVaradkar #Election #FiveNations
@rightsforresid2 My mum died several years before Covid so she didn’t live to experience the pain of enforced separation from her family. It would have been unbearable and impossible to compute with dementia. My heart breaks for you all 💔 #GloriasLaw #StillLockedAway
@rightsforresid2 One of the most powerful threads we have, my mum lost so much in the year she was denied the right to see her family, to stand and stare at her through a window beyond cruel, it was totally inhumane #GloriasLaw #RightsForResidents
@rightsforresid2 Just a reminder of my mums notebook i found in her handbag after she passed away…. This is how she was made to feel by the most inhumane policies,i for one will never ever forgive it has traumatised me forever😔
@rightsforresid2 My most poignant memory is the look in mother in law's eyes at that time - it was clear she couldn't tell whether she was dreaming or not, to see us at the window. We were already ghosts to each other even then, waving between worlds.
@rightsforresid2 People used to say to me, well at least you know your mum is safe! No I don’t know that, was my response! I couldn’t see that behind closed doors for 6 weeks, residents who walked like mum were locked in their rooms! In an odd way, it was a stroke a year later which ‘saved’ her!