Susan1 felt like a VIP because of the kind way the nurses treated her, while staying in ICU.
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The staff were really great with me. Sometimes they’d come in on the night shift and they’d look at my pressures, my – on the screen and say your pressures are really good. We’re ordering pizza do you want some? [Laughs] So and I said ‘well what are you putting on it?’ ‘Well we’ve got a vegetarian one.’ I said ‘OK well I could you know, leave the pepperoni and all the other salty stuff off. I can manage a little salt with a … So they were really good. They treated me you know, I was a VIP. There was no doubt about it. I mean I had my hair washed every day in a coronary ICU. I was an absolute princess.
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