Edit A nurse tells all from the frontlines of covid 19

<p>Asked whether it was a difficult decision to make, Dr Shotter said, “I spent a little bit of time mulling it over”.</p> <p>She noted that she had been watching the situation with COVID-19 since January 2020 and could see where we were headed. Despite this, she explained that you still could not really prepare for it, even if you knew something big was coming.</p> <p>In the two weeks before deciding to go back to the NHS, Sophie started making some big decisions, both for her business and for herself.</p> <p>“I knew, given the specific skill set that I have and the fact that intensive care was where people were needed, that if I were to sit back on my sofa doing business-related admin and watching television, I would feel really guilty. But I did have a lot of wobbles”, she explained.</p> <p>After speaking to a friend who is a consultant anaesthetist at one of the big London hospitals, she revealed that the message she got back terrified her. “They were saying, ‘don’t’ do this’, ‘it’s not safe’ and told me horror stories about what was happening with the PPE.”</p> <p>Sophie admits to sleepless nights and bad dreams. “I saw myself dying in ITU of COVID in my dream. But still, on balance, I knew I had to do it”, she said. “When I got back there, I was fine, but probably a week to ten days beforehand, I was thinking, ‘Oh my God, I'm a sacrificial lamb’.”</p>

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