Burns victim pays tribute to "incredible NHS staff" across West Yorkshire
It's as the National Health Service turns 75 this week
A woman who suffered catastrophic burns says the care she has had over the last nine years of recovery has been "exceptional".
Lucy Morgan was injured after someone threw flammable liquid onto a garden fire she was standing next to: She then spent a month on the burns unit at Pinderfields hospital: "25% of my body was burnt, they initially had to do a lot of wound cleaning, they had to do a lot of infection control, round the clock wound care, all hours of the night the nurses were working. When you are injured like that it can put you into quite a deep hole, where you think, this healing is taking forever, we are never going to get through this, this is awful, I can't cope with this, but without their happy smiling faces and around the clock care, it would have been 10 times worse."
Lucy has been having treatment for nine years and says we can't take the health service for granted: "If I was somewhere that didn't have the national health service with the amount of injuries that I had, I would have either ended up with horrendous medical bills, or I'd having to be relying on insurance rather than just getting better."
Ahead of the 75th anniversary of the NHS this week, Lucy has been paying tribute to the staff who've looked after her after it happened: "I actually look back on it with strangely enough fond memories, because it was like having a second family for four weeks."