HRH Journal Entry about 1st Hospital Visit

HRH gives account of his first official hosptial visit.

22 April Wednesday   I don't know what to say. I've never seen people my age like that. So many looked like they haven't eaten in weeks. I could see their sharp cheeks. It was kinda scary looking. It was also scary to think about how this happened to them. Mummy said most of them got sick because they were exposed to something when they were little that made them get sick. One of them looked like me. He was blond and even had amber eyes like me. His skin was grey. I've never seen someone's skin look like thin, grey paper. It was like I could have torn into his arm just by poking him. I asked him how long he's going to be there in hospital. He said he was leaving next week for hospice care. Mummy said that's end of life care. He was so calm about it. How could he be so calm about going to another place just to die?   As we were leaving, Mummy asked what I thought. I told her it was wrong to make me go see that place. She seemed sad when I said that. She wasn't mad at me though. I think I'm going to have bad dreams about that place tonight.   Alex was waiting when I got back to Eton. I told him about the hospital. He seemed as upset about it as I am. He said the visit will probably be on the news tonight. It's not fair that when the carers go to the hospital every day, it's just any day but when me and my mum go it's a story on the BBC. Is there some way I can use that to make it better for the kids there or to help the doctors and carers?