Last night's episode of 'Casualty' really broke my heart. And not only because it portrayed the bed shortages faced in the NHS by having an elderly, dementia suffering woman who needed a hip operation having to wait in a corridor because there wasn't a bed for her.
The main reason for my heartbreak was the David and Ollie storyline.
Nurse David suffers from bipolar and has reduced his medication because he was tired of feeling nothing. His son, Ollie, knew that his dad was getting ill and vowed to look after him, and, as much as David wanted Ollie to stay, he called his ex wife, who is in spain, and told her to have her sister pick Ollie up so that he can go to spain.
He didn't want his son to have to be his carer. He put Ollie's happiness before his own.
The scene where David and Ollie was emotional. It really was sad. David promised that next time Ollie saw him he'd be OK again, but then later he flushed his meds down the toilet, so we know that Its gonna be a long, hard road for David.
The only other times that I've felt as emotional as last night by 'Casualty' was when Dylan was (falsely) accused of making a pass at Seb and Ethan revealing to Cal (just moments after their mother died) that he had Huntington's. The saddest part of that story was that Ethan had told their mum as she was dying the life that he was gonna have with a woman that he had just met: marriage, kids and then realizing that none of that would happen. He would get sick. It was truly haunting.
I hope that the bipolar storyline and the character of David (who I adore. He is on the list of my fave ever characters) will make people more aware of the condition and understand it better.
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