And then [name] went as pale as you can imagine. It was like a ghost, and I thought, what’s up with her? I said, Are you feeling all right You said, No, I’m feeling bit dizzy And then your head fell back a bit. I said, What’s up with her Then they pushed me out the way, they done a few bits of work, and then they said, Right get her to theatre So there was this massive rush, alarms going everywhere, rush, shooting off and everything and they said, Well you stay there And I’m thinking, what’s going on, you know, no one was telling me.

And this is the bit I don’t like telling [name], is I was left there with blood everywhere, all over me, all over the floor, and they left me there for about three to four hours before
About four hours. I can’t be exactly sure, but I’m sure it was about four hours and then they come back and they said, Right [name]’s had a major bleed we didn’t have to take the womb, and you can go and see her in a minute

So I thought, oh God, it’s all over and done with then. So, by then they had just brought [daughter] back in to see me, and they said I could go into resus. So I went in there to see [name], and I said, Cor, you gave us all a shock And we had a little chat. And suddenly it all happened again.

While you were there?

Yes, yes, I was in resus. I said, What’s going on? She’s going the same colour as what she did It was just like a, this really horrible grey colour. And I said what’s going on. They said, Oh God, she’s bleeding again, she’s bleed again So they took her to the other side of the room literally, to where the operating theatre was, and then that’s when I could hear [name] saying, Look, get him out, get him out I thought oh God, what’s going on? So they pushed me out the door and obviously they didn’t have time, chance to say anything. So I was sort of left wandering around the hospital for another two or three hours. And then they said, Right, we think we’ve stopped the bleeding now. Do you want to come and see her? I said, Yes, fine, okay then

So when I went back to see her, suddenly they said, Look, before you go in there, we’ve got to warn you about all these pipes, and everything And I went, Yes, yes, no problem I’ve seen Casualty, no problem. So I walked in there for the biggest shock of my life. She had a pipe out of every single hole of her body, every hole, and then she had these like, what I call like, swimming pool airbeds all over her, which was to keep her body temperature and it was such a shock to see her. I couldn’t actually get right to her, because there were so many machines around. And that’s when I fell apart. I did fall apart then, and they put into a waiting room, to take her up to intensive care. And then they said, Right she’s all fine now and everything. What you need to do is go and get some sleep So I said, Right, okay

So I drove home. The second I drove home, I phoned the hospital up again, they said, Yes, she’s fine, she’s awake and she’s feeding [daughter] I thought oh that’s amazing. Anyway I put the phone down, put the kettle on to make a cup of tea. Phone went again. Look [name] has just another major bleed. We don’t know what’s going. You’re going to have to phone next of kin and get here as quickly as possible, because we don’t know if she&