1947 Child Patient
A Memory of Bradford.
The memories of this then hospital has remained with me 64 years. I survived a very serious kidney operation. At the time I dont' think a young child had ever survived. The surgery had been tried before me. The kidney doctor was called Mr. Hamilton Stewart. The ward paediatrician was called Dr. Rosenbloom and a ward sister was called nurse Grice. I was a patient there from Easter Friday until August and was still attending outpatients the day the Queen got married. My scars are obviously still with me. If only I could find the records, to maybe help kidney sufferers today when transplant kidneys are not available for everyone. I live in New Zealand and many people have to live on dialysis all over the world. The family of my consultant I believe still live in Bradford. I was told the hospital had been pulled down but that is not so. I loved the round ward. Byeee, hope you will read this.
Barbara White (nee Copper).
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I went into the Bradford Children's hospital in 1947 at the age of 7 with kidney trouble too & was in the round ward. Mr Stewart operated on me and tried to rebuild my kidney, but without success. I was in the hospital for most of the next 2 years & the kidney was finally removed in 1949.
Perhaps we were in at the same time. My name was Pamela Thomas.