A Memory Of Heswall Children's Hospital

A Memory of Heswall.

Anybody remember me in Heswall Children’s Hospital. My name then was Veronica Roberts I had a RTA on the way home from school beginning of summer 1957.I had a broken leg, concussion and a broken nose. I had my 5th birthday in hospital.. my mum and 2 cousins came to visit. As I recall I was in the room next to matron, during the night someon3 climbed through the window and got in my bed. I was moved into a ward with more children and did not speak to any staff member or ask to go to the loo all the time that I was an inpatient (can’t remember how long I was in for) I used to wander around the corridors and ended up in a lab with bottles with foetuses and babies in them. Also I went doŵn to the basement and there were 2 wards with no windows. I remember a nurse picking me up and making me look in the bed and all I can remember is a head on the bed and the nurse told me “that the child could not eat or ?drink and would stay like that until she died). I probably said to frighten me and stop me wandering which it did not. The ward that I went in had horrifically deformed babies/children. When my mother finally had me removed from there with the help of the police I suffered horrendous nightmares, had a stammer and slept under the bed in warmer weather. I remember telling family members about the window iincident I recall my mother taking me to see the GP. My medical records have disappeared in 1986 after a nervous break down. I remember talking to an older Girl who lay on a number of pillows maybe a traction. Can anyone cast their memories back to that time June 1957 and remember anything. There is more obviously. I am haunted by this time all these years later.