That's the first thing I thought of when I was in hospital when I couldn't even walk.

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"When I was born, my mother was allowed to smoke in the hospital room with me in there, " Jerome said.

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Luckily my face, it didn't do too much damage to, but it was the size of a basketball when I was hospital, when I first came in.

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Last year when I was 19 I spent over a month in the hospital because of depression and anxiety.

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Almost a year later, I was visiting wounded warriors at Walter Reed hospital when I met another young soldier who had just been injured in Afghanistan.

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He hesitated, and I could tell even before he spoke that he was inventing some excuse for being in the hospital when he normally would be getting ready to serve at the 6 a.m.

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"When I started in the NHS 25 years ago the first thing you did when you started at a new hospital was to go and meet the lady in charge at the hospitals' laundry, " said Mr Simon Marsh.

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When my Mom was in the hospital with the last stroke, which left her without the ability to speak, I visited her.

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