Girl, 8, who is temporarily separated from her parents so they can continue working as NHS nurses pens a poem for healthcare workers urging them to ‘stay positive and save lives’
- Eight-year-old Millie Cadman is currently living with her grandmother Tracey
- Parents Jodie and Nikita Cadman made decision so they could still work for NHS
- Wrote moving poem to encourage NHS workers and appeared on GMB today
An eight-year-old girl who is temporarily separated from her parents so they can continue working as NHS nurses penned a moving poem urging them to ‘stay positive and save lives’.
Jodie and Nikita Cadman, from Darlington, made the difficult decision to send their daughter Millie to live with her grandmother Tracey, because they were worried about exposing her to the coronavirus.
Millie, who isn’t attending school because her parents felt there were others who need the service more than them, appeared on Good Morning Britain today where she revealed the heartwarming poem she wrote to uplift her mothers.
The mothers said that the gesture ‘really kept them going’, but insisted that they’re simply ‘doing their job because they love it’.
Eight-year-old Millie Cadman (pictured left) who is temporarily separated from her parents Jodie and Nikita Cadman (pictured right) so they can continue working as NHS nurses penned a moving poem urging them to ‘stay positive and save lives’
Jodie and Nikita made the difficult decision to send their daughter Millie to live with grandmother Tracey, as they were worried about exposing her to the coronavirus. They appeared on Good Morning Britain today
Nikita said: ‘We’re still going strong, still staying positive. The poem really kept us going.
She went on to explain: ‘It’s really difficult. We had to think about her going to school and being with the other kids, and it would have been selfish to use that while other people need it more.
Part of the poem reads: ‘To stay safe, stay away from your family members and don’t forget to stay two metres apart. You lot need a break.
‘When this is over, make some noise and party. Do as hard as you can to save lives and defeat coronavirus.
Millie read some of the poem this morning. Part of the poem reads: ‘To stay safe, stay away from your family members and don’t forget to stay two metres apart. You lot need a break’
‘Stay positive, keep working and keep saving lives. Fear or not, never forget you saved someone’s life’.
Speaking on how they broke the news to their daughter, Jodie told that Millie already had an understanding of the coronavirus crisis, and was able to understand why she was moving in with her grandma.
She said: ‘I’d come back and we spent the day together and we were watching films and doing stuff Millie wanted to do.
‘We sat with her, she’d heard about coronavirus at school and we said “You’ll have to stay with grandma for a bit, but it wasn’t forever”.
‘Some of the things she wrote in the poem was stuff I’d said to her, so it was nice she’d understood.’
Speaking to host Lorraine Kelly (pictured) on how they broke the news to their daughter, Jodie told that Millie already had an understanding of the coronavirus crisis
Nikita spoke of last night’s clap for NHS workers: ‘It does help, but we cheer as well. We’re supportive of all key workers;
They told their team’s reaction to the letter was ’emotional’ and revealed that they try their best to support all key workers, and say they’re simply ‘doing their jobs’.
Jodie said: ‘When she sent it to us, we were a bit emotional and our team loved it as well.’
Nikita spoke of last night’s clap for NHS workers: ‘It does help, but we cheer as well. We’re supportive of all key workers.
‘Some of the team we were working with were banging pans and having a good cheer, we’re just doing our job because we love it.’
When quizzed on whether they’d been able to visit their daughter at all, Jodie said that they’ve been able to stand at their gate and wave to their daughter, and said they send each other ‘virtual hugs’.
She told: ‘We’ve been a couple of times, when we’ve dropped shopping off. We stand at the gate and wave and chat for five minutes. We do virtual hugs.’