I have written before about the full blood transfusion I had to have when I was born in Glasgow in 1971. My mum had to remind me when I was writing my memoir.
Even after writing about it here, I failed to make the connection between the infected blood inquiry, which began in 2018, and my own blood transfusion. More than 30,000 people in the UK were infected with HIV and hepatitis C after being given contaminated blood products.
I have never felt ill so dismissed the idea I had been affected … until I read in the report that 898 people had not been identified and probably still did not know that they had been infected.
