Jimmy Cooper, who turns 80 in November, has no plans to retire from his nursing career. After a chance meeting in the 1970s, Jimmy's life was shaped by his dedication to nursing. Despite facing discrimination and even experiencing the Brighton bombing in 1984, Jimmy has been tending to seriously ill patients for almost 20 years in Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital.
Jimmy Cooper turns 80 in November, but has no plans to give up his nursing career anytime soon.Jimmy told BBC News NI that he briefly retired at the age of 69, but came back "after about four months" as he was bored.A chance meeting with a matron and her deputy in a cottage hospital near Brighton in the 1970s shaped the rest of Jimmy's life."I saw these two little ladies sitting in a cupboard... having a cup of tea.
"When I trained, I wasn't even allowed to listen to the lecture about females. I would be asked to sit on the stairs," he said. "I was the manager there of the unit. I got a call to say 'come in, there's a bomb gone off'," he said.
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