Thank you both.
I hate being a misery guts and am usually upbeat but I think just after having a tough few weeks where we were literally going from Crumlin to Temple Street and then as an inpatient it was particularly hard listening especially to that young girl talk about how stressed she was especially in school 😔 dd is non verbal and I do often wonder what she's thinking.
I guess just seeing how overworked and understaffed both hospitals were with children and staff with covid, little kids on trollies, staff been told to go home as they were either testing positive or showing symptoms of covid. Both hospitals rife with covid and that came from dds surgeon but no one is telling the truth to the Country as how bad it is and that's even before you enter all the wards with seriously ill children.
I guess I was just looking for a bit of an escape and a bit of fun watching children having fun and looking at the toys but it felt like being back in the hospital hearing the stories and of course it's so hard to hear what they are going through.
There was so few toys, little laughter, not one decoration, except for the couple of Christmas jumpers that appeared later you would never have thought it was the toy show. Even the audience dressed as animals, I know there was a theme, but there's a theme every year, there's always a Christmas tree and decorations, people in Christmas hats etc, sure that was the fun when we were kids and even when mine were small, was too put up the tree, get the toy show treats in and it felt like Christmas.