Fifty Days of Lockdown documents how one family made the best out of possibly one of the most unprecedented times that many of us will ever have to live through.
Mark Ind will be well known to many in the business community for his career in hospitality and his current role as Chief Executive of Heartbeat, the Southampton based charity. But you may not know he is also a published author.
Based on a daily journal, his book captures the historical events leading up to Covid-19 and beyond, while also telling the amazing story of Mark’s son Alex and his incredible 10K challenge.
Mark explained: “Before, during and after the Lockdown period I decided to record a daily journal of what my close family and I did during this unprecedented time in our lives. But for us the real Lockdown was in the summer of 2019 when our then 21-year-old son Alexander (Alex) spent nearly three months in Southampton General Hospital after contracting sepsis in May 2019. The infection was so bad that it not only nearly killed him but it also penetrated the artificial tubing around his heart meaning he had to undergo major reconstructive open-heart surgery for the fourth time in his life.
“Whilst recovering from both the infection and the surgery, he also suffered a stroke. We were therefore going to make sure Alex had the best possible Summer to make up for what he missed out on in 2019, and despite the fact that we were in Lockdown.
“On completion of the journal, which I had only really kept for posterity’s sake bearing in mind the uniqueness of Lockdown, I decided that I would use the record to write a book not only about our daily experiences, which includes some amusing and relatable anecdotes, but also a chronicle of what actually happened, from Boris Johnson’s illness, to Captain Sir Tom Moore’s amazing charitable feat to the VE Day celebrations.”
Copies of the book are available from Amazon – click here to buy and a donation from each sale goes to the Heartbeat charity.
