Dear NHS, edited by Adam Kay – celebrities say thank you
msn.comBBC comedy This Country, was recovering in hospital after giving birth to her first baby, Pip, by emergency caesarean section.
She was feeling emotional, although that had less to do with having brought forth new life than the fact that she had gone eight days without having a poo. “I forgot what it was to be human,” she writes, mournfully. “I had taken such a simple bodily function for granted – what I would give to have a dump.” Eventually, she burst into tears in front of a nurse, who rustled up some liquid laxatives and, half an hour later, gently led her to the nearest bathroom. “That angel in blue saved me,” she says. “I cried on the toilet in gratitude.”Cooper’s story is one of many moments of thankfulness and extreme over-sharing in.
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