Oxygen masks with elastic straps snagged it; pillows caught on it; tubes stuck to it; and it rapidly became a hot, itchy, tangled mat.

I didn't want to go near her as she was so fragile, in an incubator, with tubes sticking out of her, surrounded by machinery.

I have a scar on my cheek from the tubes stuck down my throat.

When she became ill, my mum and dad wouldn't even let me see her in hospital because she had tubes stuck inside her and was on drips.

The tubes stick together with layers of tiny crystals.