From Struggles to Strength – 24 Hours in A&E – Medical Documentary

24 Hours in A&E – S03 E13

Discover inspiring stories of resilience and strength in this gripping episode of 24 Hours in A&E. Follow individuals who have faced trauma, illness, and personal battles, finding the courage to overcome. From a mother’s unwavering love to a former troublemaker’s transformation, witness the power of human spirit.

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24 Hours in A&E is a British documentary series that takes viewers on an emotionally charged journey into the heart of a busy trauma center. This gripping reality TV show provides an unfiltered and compelling look at the daily workings of a UK healthcare system, specifically the emergency department of a hospital.

With a focus on patient care and critical care, 24 Hours in A&E showcases the true essence of hospital life and the incredible work of medical professionals. Through real-life medical cases and patient stories, the show offers an honest and raw depiction of medical emergencies and the crucial medical treatment needed to save lives.

Filmed in real-time, the documentary offers an unscripted and captivating look at the fast-paced environment of an emergency room. The show explores the human interest aspect of healthcare, portraying the personal lives of the patients and their families as they navigate through life-changing medical situations.

A&E documentary, medical documentary, and hospital documentary all rolled into one, 24 Hours in A&E offers a unique perspective on the reality of emergency medicine. Broadcast on Channel 4, this real-life medical drama has become a critically acclaimed hospital reality TV show, gaining popularity for its powerful and touching portrayal of the human spirit in times of crisis.

Overall, 24 Hours in A&E is a must-watch for anyone interested in medical emergencies, UK healthcare, and the incredible work of medical professionals in the emergency department.

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John [Music] [Music] John do you remember where you are Kings College Hospital London oh my God thank God a major Trauma Center hit the curb jackknife onto the Verge have we got a good pulse have we got an output one of the busiest he will probably scream but he won’t remember [Music] [Applause] there you go I love you I love you too and loss it’s all right unfold every single day oh he’s not busy squeeze that we can’t give up one no come on they’ve got to be strong for mum if it is a last bit hey all the patience you’re about to see were treated in one Department in just one 20 24 hours period I never cease to be amazed at the robustness of human beings I love you and the strength of their relationships love it’s a reflex it’s what you do for many of the families despite the devastation that they may be facing they give unconditional love [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] these socks have been hanging around a bit too long now I wonder who they belong to I’m back to now [Music] is it nice it’s nice it’s nice [Music] I’ll be right back okay [Music] will I be pretty would I be rich here’s what you said to me I like working with children it could be a future or anything in that room can’t they that’s the great thing about it it’s like when you’re at school you could look at who might be the next prime minister and who could be the next Marilyn Monroe what would you like as a child [Music] I think I was cheeky and a little bit rebellious rather than um you know Criminal if you’d have asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up I’d have wanted to be a fairy or a mermaid I thought I wanted to be a hairdresser but the odd occasion in high school when I’ve cut a friend’s hair it’s probably a really good thing that I changed my mind because I’m not very good at it I want to be fireman I think although I can’t go up ladders so that was that was out and then a policeman I think the second one truthfully I wanted to be a car mechanic the fact that I could come home absolutely head to toe in Greece was my idea of Heaven what were you like as a teenager God you don’t want to know awful yeah it was quite Wild any stories oh no probably not [Music] [Music] I was quite boring I wasn’t particularly wild I didn’t particularly Rebel you know when I got to sort of 16 I started going out and when I got to 17 started to notice a sort of ongoing headache it’s a weird thing to to describe I call it my tumor headache because I don’t have really the words to describe it just sort of like a hot poker searing through your head just really quick short bursts and then it would go and I’d think okay it was a bad hangover but um yeah it was it was way more than your average headache [Music] Sarah is 35. so I’ll stick it on here sorry she’s had a headache for the last four days okay sorry it’s not my day okay thank you thank you Sarah hi hi my name’s Ollie I’m one of the a e doctors tell me about the headache I’m sure it’s nothing I’ve had a virus so maybe it’s that but I’ve had three brain tumors in the past I was 17 when I had the first one and then three years later the second one well it was the first one that record why didn’t you come in on Friday when the headache started I worry just in case it is something really bad and stupidly I don’t with my second second tumor I knew I knew for a good week that it was back but I went as far as Heathrow Airport to go to Australia before was it a little bit yeah I’ve always been told it won’t come back and then it has three times and various complications that’s fine and it’s just this yeah you are a VIP when it comes to head and brain related concerns my job is to assume the worst yeah for everyone all right it doesn’t necessarily mean anything to be worried about but you’re here and you with your track record we have to assume the worst and hope for the best all right okay when you’re 17 you’re almost Untouchable you don’t feel that much can affect you I just put that on but you’re all less aware of the reality of things thank you so we have a saying in our family if it’s unlikely to happen it will happen to me so which is right my parents put on a brave face I could see how distraught they were you know you as a parent you all you hope is that your children are healthy and happy and when something goes wrong where they’re not healthy all you want to do is put yourself in their shoes and take it away from them and be the one going through it and I guess as parents they felt very helpless and I could see that so I sort of made a vow to myself then that I would do as much as I could to never let them know how I was feeling I thought if there was something I could do for them it would be to put on a brave face put on a smile and just not ever let them see how upset or how scared or how worried I was okay all right okay because I’ve spent so long you know pretending that everything’s fine everything’s okay it’s sort of a role you become used to playing and and then it doesn’t become a role anymore it just becomes who you are and how you deal with things [Music] [Music] the horn on the bus goes [Music] do you want to have children yeah I’d love to have children [Music] have you always wanted to have children yes I used to want to have five children but I am I think my partner might have something to say about that one he’s previously in his wrists as long as I get my little girl then I’m all right [Music] it would have been quite nice to have had a girl I think probably each time if I you know before they were born if if I’d been able to choose I might have chosen to have a girl but you know the whole thing to do with motherhood is often quite mixed emotions isn’t it okay why didn’t you sit down sit down darling sit down yes oh precious now Helen is 47. she’s brought in her 10 month old son James I have two boys already Ben’s 15 Joe’s 12. but I think I always wanted a third child I think three is a nice number [Music] but I think um Mark who is the boy’s father um was not very keen actually so that was always a little bit of an issue I think Mark and I split up and then in due course Pat came along and then it seemed to be the right time because he didn’t have any children of his own and he was you know very keen and very happy but of course by then I was a bit older so um we thought that the IVF route would be the best one to take don’t come through yes that’s lovely thank you come along the Tony man James was conceived on the third attempt should we sit here I’m Ella hello I’m Helen hi are you Mum yes and what’s the problem well the problem is that James has been vomiting since um it’s about 11 o’clock this morning and normally I wouldn’t be concerned but he’s got an absolutely horrendous medical history but he’s a bit grumpy yes the medical histories is long okay okay he was born at 36 weeks but I had preeclampsia and he only weighed 1.67 kilos um he had a hole in the heart and a multicystic kidney okay has that hole in the heart been repaired yes that’s right yeah the whole pregnancy was terribly difficult from start to finish every time we had a scan the room would fill up with all these experts and that’s never a good thing is it really in that circumstance at 18 weeks they realized that he had only one kidney then two or three weeks later we had a detailed cardiac scan which showed that he had a hole in his heart I could have really written a textbook about abnormal pregnancies after after that so once James came out you know I was really thinking oh that’s going to be fine now you know he’s gonna I do tend to be on the optimistic side and he came out he looked normal um and uh obviously they took him straight away to special care it was all good the first couple of weeks really and then suddenly when he was about two weeks old everything went completely pear-shaped because um because he was so tiny his fetal circulation didn’t switch over and that he was getting breathless he was distressed and then the Consultants came to me and basically said that they believed that James wasn’t going to make it he was going to die um quite soon and I remember just walking in the corridor and uh tears just you know they just pour down your voice and I met this really nice consultant and I said to him you know it looks like James is going to die and he just gave me a big hug and he said to me you know where there’s life There’s Hope and you have to believe that and it’s such a cliche you know but you can’t imagine how powerful that felt on that particular day I’m sorry you don’t feel good by the end of that day she was maintaining his blood pressure and it’s that I look back on its dream like it was a it was an experience that you don’t forget are you happy boy yeah aren’t you so yes with that history you can imagine that I would be very very protective there was absolutely no way that I was taking any chances any more chances with him [Music] poor little America [Music] thank you [Applause] this is what I’m saying I don’t know what we’re staying ahead the most sick people are coming in here okay what you need to do what you need to do is go to hospital in Africa you hate hospitals for the rest you even set for in the door people were dying I’m telling you like yeah because you come from a different environment and you come from like hair when you come from here it’s different when you’re used to treatment hair when you if you’re born there yeah hospital is a hospital bro I’m telling you but then sometimes it’s fair to go in the hospital because we had the like local and he was literally like a quack doctor he was kicked out of his medical school wow and he took out someone’s tooth yeah with a chisel you know no literally no because we said and then he tried to inject someone in the head [Applause] I mean that back in the day treatment bro when the doctors and even like killed someone and they spared him I remember I remember I remember somebody saying about it when he killed someone he killed the lady he killed the lady of kalikunda and then they spared him because basically they don’t have enough money to go to the hospital so how did he kill her again he gave her a wrong injection and her daughter was left without no one it was a real he was a quiet doctor I never let that man treat me never never because that’s what I’ve said I prefer the NHS even if you’re dying but go to the hospital I prefer the NHS [Music] I don’t want to bother people if it’s not an emergency um I’m aware of how busy everyone always is in a e and I’ll feel a bit silly if it’s something very stupid or it’s something not to worry about and I feel like I’ve wasted people’s time that my parents are more insistent than me so it’s usually after being strong armed by them that I will go in Sarah’s had a headache for the past four days since she was 17 she’s had three brain tumors something that I question more and more I don’t know whether it’s the older I get or possibly the more side effects that occur is I start to question my identity a lot am I the person that I was supposed to be or are meant to be how much of me is the tumor and how much is the side effects of the tumor versus how much is inherently me I don’t know momolam had famously a brain tumor and she was known as being very wild in politics and would do outrageous things flashing her bra and and when she was told about her tumor and how it could affect behavior and personality it was the first term that she broke down and she said for all this time I thought that was me and you’re telling me it’s just a product of the tumor and I that really I suppose struck a note in me how much of who I am is defined by the illness and how much of me is still me nice and still look at my finger follow my finger with your eyes tell me if you get any blurring or double vision what about Sir what was she like when she was a little girl she was a joker she was the one when we’d go away suddenly started entertaining people by doing little dances and taking people off from the TV she she was wasn’t she she was um but very quiet she she yes it’s it’s strange yeah there’s two opposites as well yes [Music] can you feel me touching on both sides yeah both sides Sarah in some ways is quite introvert and very deep when she’s younger before she could speak it would be hard to know exactly what she was thinking and now it’s sometimes hard to sort of get her to tell you really what’s on her mind or what she’s thinking all my tumor headaches have been frontal this one was at the back all it was at the back all at the back yeah and real throb throb throb where I was holding my head and on a scale of one to ten when it came on like that how bad was it seven eight seven eight yeah and what sort of tumor is it it was a benign pituitary tumor pituitary okay all right fine I remember saying to a doctor do what you want cut my head open shave my hair off put Staples in my head it doesn’t bother me my only thing is I want to be a mum I desperately want to be a mum at some point when the time is right um so I didn’t want that jeopardized pituitary gland is the one that releases all the hormones so yeah it does affect your fertility the damage done to it meant that it wasn’t possible to to naturally conceive [Music] it’s now it’s even worse because I’ve got a baby now and I’m just saying I can’t you know and the babies with my dad okay he’s never changed enough in his life how old’s the baby he’s 10 months yeah he’s gonna learn it’s going to live very quickly okay all right this is not going to be an in and out of a e in four hours type job so your dad is going to have to get used to changing that piece relatively rapidly when you say it’s not going to be an in and out job I don’t know okay okay I’ll have to make some phone calls yeah all right okay these things never happen at convenient times my baby it’s your baby yeah I’m fine I’m fine and don’t get teary no right okay oh [Music] it was [Music] around the time which personally wasn’t great for me I was going through a lot of things I had to move back home with my mom and dad press nine for an outside line okay very much [Music] hi Dad how is he what time did he sleep till [Music] okay all right um I’m not going to be in and out it’s not a quick job um may not even be back tonight hot chocolate well again until they do something they don’t know but um basically with my you know someone if somebody forget my history if someone had come in and said this is what’s happened coughing fit blah blah blah they would assume a small bleed at the back of the brain like a lost blood vessel it might not be but that’s what they would assume he said obviously given my history yeah you know my concerns pre Elliott used to just be well you know if something happens then it happens and I’ll deal with it but the minute a child arrives it suddenly changes your priorities and your perspective I bet yeah you’re going to have to get Kerry’s help or something with Dad [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you foreign [Music] do you think men ever really grow up no not at all not at all you kind of Imagine that there’s a certain age where everything becomes simple and and uh I remember thinking you know when I was like 13 I remember thinking are those 16 year olds they’ve got it all sorted out and they would get to 16 I’ll just think and then I’ll look at the 18 year olds and be all over again I’m still doing it [Music] yeah outside of South London pub a young man has been stabbed twice some children acquire independent so they can wander off and go off he was very clingy um as a child for loving okay thanks bye lovely boy so polite and he saw this which was very nice for me but then you know when they turn into teenagers they sort of change four minutes everybody signed in that needs to sign in he changed so dramatically through those years [Music] so we became more more sort of more like strangers [Music] [Music] [Music] he’s been stabbed twice into the left thigh guys when we’ve arrived there was one wound which is about four centimeters long and actually bleeding there’s a secondary wound which is about one and a half centimeters not actively bleeding hi Wayne my name is Emily on The Doctors who’s going to check you out all over can I have a quick look under here [Music] doesn’t matter what they’ve done and what you’ve gone through you’re always going to be protective about them and here’s something happening which you have absolutely no control over well done all right another sharp scratch I never thought I would ever be stabbed I remember saying I never get stoked I never get stabbed and it was like wow I have been stabbed there do you remember the first time you were arrested yeah I remember what do you mean as in how did elaborating that though what happened oh I remember I took something I remember running down the roads running through the park and then I hid and I got caught hiding in the bin and then I was in the cell and I was I I think I remember I swear I cried because I don’t know what have I done and then they said you have to phone your mom and I was like do I have to phone my mom can I follow someone else I don’t want my mom to find out I’m thinking did I found my mom or did I find my uncle I’m not too sure I think I might have found my uncle and my uncle for my mom but my mom found out anyway and then that was it it was like oh the shame you know I felt ashamed but it wasn’t it wasn’t like I don’t know what what’s the problem was was when I went back out with my friends I got glorified for it you know I was like wow yeah then what happened you know you got a knit they let you go and it’s like wow there’s like it became kind of cool and obviously you’re young and you’re naive and you think wow okay cool you know you were showing off like yeah yeah you know and then it became a habit [Music] one thing I always said to my mom don’t ever blame yourself because you haven’t done anything wrong it was down to me making my own choices you know she always gave me the choice to make I knew right from wrong to be honest with you so you could never say it’s down to my mom was a bad parent or anything like that it was all done to me [Music] thank you I thought I said I’ve got to do something now or never [Music] precious Bay 10 month old James has been vomiting since 11AM his mum Helen has brought him into pediatric a d [Music] ude hello oh look at that smile very good James spent the first 13 weeks of his life in hospital [Music] when James was born so tiny and I just burst into tears when I saw him I just felt this horrible sort of guilt that I’ve done this to you it’s all my fault basically that you haven’t grown properly oh sorry hold my hand darling with that history you can imagine that I would be very very protective and I think just a couple of months prior to that he’d had another stomach bug what I thought was a stomach bug and I’d catch him on the sofa and looked after him and observed him and in fact it turned out to be a hernia and in fact he’d had to have further surgery so yeah so I was you know more even more neurotic than usual let’s hope it is a tummy bug dude yes lovely thank you very much we’ll see you in a bit then yeah I guess we should phone Dad I shouldn’t be and tell him as a parent all you want is for your children to be happy and healthy I’m just going to move you ever so slightly okay Sarah’s scan will show whether her brain tumor has returned all right [Music] now I’ve always said in a weird way I’m glad I was a person going through it okay and not the person watching someone that I loved going through it because I’m sure it must be 10 times more difficult oh could you want to chat with the man who he is talk to Daddy say hi to Daddy that’s Daddy I think that was the first time we’d ever been to hospital and it hadn’t been something serious it was you know it was really the beginning of not having to worry about him and really the beginning of treating him like a normal baby I’ve never seen that happens [Music] oh [Music] I know my my mum you know suffers a lot from her nerves I suppose because as a mother you know it hasn’t just happened once you have one tumor and then you’re told it’s gone and then it comes back a second time and then you’re told it’s gone and then it comes back a third time and you’re told it’s gone well you’re always expecting the worse and I think that’s what my mum does now you know even when things are going great there’s always part of her that is expecting something bad you know and I think that’s the damage that it’s left behind [Music] my feeling at the time was we must be in the best hands they know exactly what to do but the first operation didn’t go too well because he told us that it was terribly vascular and it bled quite a lot so he removed what he could and obviously it came back and that second time they operated again but this time was a huge operation went by as Carl was open and it was horrendous it was so frightening so frightening and she was very lucky to make it very lucky [Music] and it came back again it was as if we were going through a nightmare that would never stop cool girl you’ve been knowing to be a time and you won’t worry about Sarah’s health no not for me [Music] [Music] I read an email that my mum had written someone to someone once and it was after the second operation and she said what have I done what have I allowed them to do to my daughter and it’s just that horrible Moment of clarity thinking she blames herself I and you know she was nothing but amazing and wonderful but she still blamed herself so it’s um yeah I’m fine it’s okay it’s not a problem it’s partly lying to myself and partly lying to other people you know it’s not wanting to face if it is back or if something has happened again especially now that I am a mum I just thought of going through it again whilst I have earlier is hundred times more scary yeah I’ve got this in the last five years so what was you doing tonight I was watching did they win watching me awesome size so a double down any questions so anyone she can be with Wayne the 28 year old Glacier has been brought in after being stabbed twice in his leg okay what I’m gonna do is uh I’m gonna give you a tetanus injection all right so we’ve covered everything just as a precaution all right [Music] my girlfriend phoned me and she was like oh where are you and I sit there I’m in the pub with my friends she parked up around the corner from the pub she came in I think me and my friends had one more drink or two and then we left to go to the car where she was parked it was like down the side of the street and you got into the car I remember the doors closed the doors opened back up and there was a group of guys all around the car they waved the gun at my girlfriend they grabbed my girlfriend’s bag I tried to remember holding it and then one of them hit me in my face and I got punched on my leg twice what I thought was a punch anyway and then it happened very quick and then they just ran off and I remember trying to get a car and trying to chase them and I couldn’t run and I put my hand on my legs like it was like a dead leg and then as I looked at my hand I was just blood all over my hand and that’s when I realized I got stabbed I was so sad you know knowing that you know I felt sad for them as well because it made me think you know you you achieved one thing on mobile phone and there was at least five of you you know that was that 10 pound inch that you know like I would never have done something like that in my bad times but at the same time it’s that how far we’ve come it was kind of sad to know that you know people going around stabbing people on random sprees like maybe it’s initiation of a game or something like that I don’t know but I did feel sorry for them and I felt saddened if you understand you know knowing that I could have been heading that path [Music] I’ve got to about age of 24 and I realized you know that enough is enough excuse me man thank you very much yeah I was sitting in the pizza I remember even looking up at the ceiling and seeing a Crime Stoppers number and thinking I’ve read that number too many times and this is not this is not it no more you know I’m sick and tired of this and the police officer saying hello Mr Marshall how are you doing today didn’t want any of that no more to be honest with you I thought you know try to start a new Fresh Start so many people do this revolving door thing getting in trouble out traveling in trouble and I think he somehow managed to catch himself and say that you know I don’t need to be doing this anymore although it took time he found himself [Music] as long as you’re okay foreign positive steps you know went back to college did some some courses so that he gained some skills so that eventually when some work came along he would be able to be you know ready to take on a career really yeah [Music] I remember the day my mom said to me she’s very proud of me almost made me cry you know it’s like wow I remember I said to my friends yeah my mom said to me she was proud of me you know it’s like it felt a lot you know to hear my mom say you know you’ve come a long way you know she let me make my own mistakes and it’s made me who I am today you know it’s made me a better person you know I might have gone through it the long way and it took me 10 years you know but it’s it’s got to that stage where you know I’ve learned who I am motherhood is good for learning about the sort of person that you are and what you can give as well as a human being as well as a mother [Music] ah is that neuroradiology I’m just trying to chase up a CT scan report for a head CT on a young lady that’s come in with uh history very suspicious of a subarachnoid hemorrhage I think I Pace when I’m worried I was probably wondering what my dad was doing at home with with my son and how he was going to change a nappy I showed him very hurriedly before I left but um it was still crossing my mind I mean as a mum you do don’t you and you just worry anyway and I’m always with Elliot so to not be with him was very strange and I just didn’t like it okay thanks a lot cheers bye good news and bad news okay the good news is the scan doesn’t show anything apart from the old like what’s happened in the past the bad news is that means that we need to speak to the medical team without thinking about doing a lumber puncher that’s supposed to be painful I know that and then if if there is just nothing wrong is it still worth doing a number puncture to prove that there’s nothing wrong um the scan doesn’t pick up all bleeds right okay all right but as I say a negative scan is good news yeah it’s just going down the boxes ticking them off all right first box is tips right the next box unfortunately is is a fairly big box which is lumbar puncture but we need to decide whether or not we do need to go down okay all right all right cheers [Music] I’d uh happily give up all the bad health for the life of good health but then in a way it has made me who I am if it hadn’t happened would I have my son I might have other children but I wouldn’t have Elliot so in a way I wouldn’t change things [Music] it’s in the hands of the doctors and I’m in the hands of God if you believe in God all we can do is hope we’ll be lucky and that she gets the best doctors and the best medical care and and they can sort out um you know the things that are wrong with her and keep her alive that’s what else can we say really we can just be here to um pick up the pieces if if um Elliot has brought her a lot of strength tell me about Elliot what’s he like he’s just everything he’s everything to me I can’t imagine not having him I can’t imagine what my life was without him I remember coming back from the hospital with him and it still doesn’t feel like it’s real I still kept thinking at any moment I was gonna have him snatched away or wake up from a most amazing dream and be told that it wasn’t real you know it’s just so much more precious when you’ve had to fight for it so yeah having come so far to have got him and then for something to happen would be awful and I know something happened it wouldn’t be through fighting because I would fight the whole way [Music] just want to do the best job I can be a good mum do right by him [Music] [Music] [Music] I never really had my dad in my life not saying that he’s not in my life but growing up I don’t really have any memories of him being in my life so I’m going to make sure that my child has been until the day I pass away you know kind of through all the hard times bad times poor best friend everything yeah so that’s why I will try the I’ll try my best that’s what you can do really [Music] it will be absolutely fine yeah there’s a lot of room for optimism and I think you have to make the most of what you’ve got today and dream about the future I think that’s what makes humans the you know the way we are that you you live for the future as well as um yeah you do everyone needs a dream yes I’d dream about Kate push but there you go [Music] we get a lot of Falls people climbing trees being stupid people being drunk falling out of Windows I’ve only ever been in that sort of State like once maybe twice he says he’s got a knife on him and he’s been really aggressive to us I’ve just called the police you know where you are [Music] um [Music]