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15 October 2014
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'We forgot about you!'

by Genevieve

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Joan Higgins
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Middlesex Hospital, Stoke Mandeville Hospital
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Civilian
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A5812841
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19 September 2005

One day I was taken ill in 1943 on a Number 36 bus in London in the middle of all the bombings. They got me to the Middlesex Hospital and saved my life.

I was there for quite a long time when the bombing was on, but one night they forgot me. I was on the top floor sleeping out there when a sister came running up and said 鈥淲e forgot you were out here and they鈥檙e dropping the bombs! Hark at them!鈥 The doodlebugs were flying right over.

After I left Middlesex Hospital they got me to Stoke Mandeville in a green line coach which had been converted into an ambulance, and I was there for a few weeks. I was poorly for some time after that; and I had my 32nd operation 12 months ago!

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