My mother, Sally Adams, who died at the age of 73, has worked for many years at Bablith Hospital CambridgeWhere she was a sister in the intensive treatment unit and was one of the nurses who took care of the Keith Castle, the first successful heart of heart transplantation in the UK, in 1979.
She worked in Babworth from 1975 to 1990 (with the exception of a two-year talisman at Trilisk Hospital in Torro in 1986-1988). Then she turned to consulting the bereavement until her retirement in 2019.
Sally was born in Retiston, Herfordshire, to the Beitti (Ni Big), a dinner lady, Alan Wittour, Lori driver. Sally joined the local Meridian school, where she decided early that she should be a nurse.
After completing her training at Addenbroke Hospital in Cambridge in 1973, she became a nurse in the region. She joined Babworth two years later, and she was promoted to be a sister in the International Federation of No. within a year, and she spent many of the rest of her time in Bablith to take care of the transplant patients.
When Castle’s leading heart operation, carried out by the English Tyrens, attracted attention all over the world, she had to deal with correspondents climbing trees outside the wing, trying to look at inside. It also established the first care of the Patient Patients in the End of Life Group with a colleague, Silvia Reed.
In 1991, Sally was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and as a result, she decided to re -train as a berea consultant, a job that would be less physically asking. After that, I worked at Hospice’s Hospice, Hayel, in Cornwall, where she was a pioneer in the service of sadness for sad relatives and created a rainbow room, a space for families filled with books, sofas and PlayStation. While working in St. Julia, she studied for a certificate at Exeter University, which she completed in 2007.
Two marriages-to Tony Hall (1971-1974), and Richard Plus (1975-88)-ended in divorce. Sally was married to her third husband, Ian Adams, from 1990 until his death in 2023. In 1989 Ian met at a Christian retreat center, where, after hearing loudly on how to raise children, he went to inform him that he was “talking about foolishness.” They were wonderful verbal partners and have a relationship full of happiness.
She has survived by her three children – Simon, from her first marriage, Mark and Mark from the second – by Ibn Ian, Alex, and five grandchildren.
