Zoe Holohan

It was a horrific journey.

The ambulance drivers were not kind people.

They were laughing.

They told me to shut up when I started to cry about my husband.

So then I shut up and I just thought to myself, well, it doesn't really matter anyway.

Brian's dead and I'm going to be dead soon.

No pain relief.

I can't describe to you what severe burns feel like.

My eye was cooked shut at this stage, and I actually did catch a glimpse of my face in a window.

My face had totally melted.

Cooked.

I could hardly move my limbs at this stage.

The burns on my legs and my hand were so severe, they went right down to the bones.

So the bones were actually burned.

But they left me there.

I called to a nurse who was walking up and down.

who told me she couldn't give me any pain medication, in perfect English, she couldn't give me any pain medication until I'd been seen by a doctor.

I was just begging for anything, something.

And I just lay there thinking, I'm surely going to die in this hellhole.

That hospital was the very opposite of the first hospital.