A Scots mum has hit out at a Blackpool hotel after claiming she found a 'bed bug' and urine stains on the mattress in their room.
09.03.2023 - 10:59 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A brave Scots mum who was left paralysed after ‘bending over to pick up a pen’ has told how she planned to end her own life as she struggled to come to terms with her condition. Michelle Moffatt was working as an ICU nurse in November 2019 when she suffered two prolapsed discs in her back, which began pressing on her nerves and spinal cord.
Following surgery complications, the 41-year-old fitness fanatic was left paralysed below the waist and wheelchair-bound - sending her into a deep depression. After her condition failed to improve by January 2022, the mum-of-four decided to travel to the Dignitas assisted dying facility in Switzerland.
But just one day later, Michelle, from Dumbarton, received a phone call from her GP who told her about a peer-support charity called Spinal Injuries Scotland, who she now credits with saving her life. She explained: “I felt like I couldn’t be a proper wife to my husband, or a real mum and believed I was a burden to everyone.
“By that point, I had been medically retired from my job as an ICU nurse and felt that I had nothing to offer anymore. I was in such a bad place that I genuinely believed that ending things was best for everyone I cared about so I was going to join Dignitas in Switzerland.
“Knowing I had a plan, I actually felt less upset because I had made my mind up. But the next day I got a phone call out of the blue from my GP checking up on me. I told her what I decided to do and that’s when she told me about Spinal Injuries Scotland.
“At first I didn’t think they would help me because I hadn’t broken my back in a horrible accident - I’d just bent over to pick up a dropped pen from the floor. But I sent off an email anyway and they got back in touch telling me that they had peer
A Scots mum has hit out at a Blackpool hotel after claiming she found a 'bed bug' and urine stains on the mattress in their room.
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