Addenbrooke's day room named after Orwell fundraiser

Kirsten Bailey, 34, who uses a wheelchair and has spinal muscular atrophy and autism, has had many visits to Addenbrooke's throughout her life.

While isolating during the pandemic, Kirsten suffered a stroke at the age of 29, followed by a second stroke a year later.

Kirsten Bailey at the unveiling of the day room named in her honour (Image: Courtesy of Kirsten Bailey) In March last year she had surgery to remove a cavernoma - a cluster of abnormal blood vessels in her brain which caused the stroke.

Kirsten has raised £6,000 through fetes, table top sales, a sponsored silence and a JustGiving page for the day room at the A3 ward - where she stayed while recovering from her surgery.

The day room, which is where patients wait for their surgeries, has now been named 'The Kirsten Bailey Day Room' in her honour.

The Kirsten Bailey Day Room (Image: Courtesy of Kirsten Bailey) Kirsten attended the unveiling of the day room, and said she was "happy and shocked" that it had been named after her.

She said: "All my hard work and effort had gone into making the day room a lovely room for patients and relatives to wait or rest in. And now the TV works too!

"The quiet room was amazing too and very colourful.

"There was a little party afterwards which was really nice."

Kirsten is now raising money for the A3 staff room to show her appreciation for the staff's hard work.

Kirsten Bailey has done a range of fundraising activities for charity (Image: Courtesy of Kirsten Bailey) To donate go to https://www.justgiving.com/page/kirsten-bailey-1683038020132.

She added: "I would like to say a huge thank you to the A3 team for making my stay, and so many other patients' stay, in A3 as comfortable and calm as they can.

"They were all so kind and helpful.

"And an astronomically huge thank you to the team for making the unveiling so special.

"I loved every minute of it."

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Kirsten also thanked both her mum and her carer Arabella for helping with her fundraising efforts.

She said: "Without Arabella and my mum I wouldn’t have been able to do it.

"It never ends for me - I am just permanently on it."