Ms Wilkins has also met and treated celebrities in her time at the hospital – including Chris Kamara, who visits Pinderfields every Christmas, she said.<\/p>\n
“I met Davy Jones from The Monkees. I looked after him. He fell off a horse at Pontefract Racecourse and broke his leg,” she said.<\/p>\n
“I was probably maybe 20 at the time. I’ll never forget that. I loved The Monkees.”<\/p>\n
In her retirement, Ms Wilkins said she hoped to do more baking and spend more time on holiday with her partner, who recently retired after 21 years as a milkman.<\/p>\n
“We have a caravan just on the edge of the North York Moors. We’re hoping for a fabulous summer like we had this year so that we can go and spend as much time as we can in it,” she said.<\/p>\n
“We’ve got two little dogs, two little miniature dachshunds. Even though they’ve got little legs, they do like to walk.<\/p>\n
“And I’ve got a sourdough obsession. So I’ll be able to put a little bit more time into that because it’s a really technical thing sourdough baking.<\/p>\n
“She’s in the fridge at the minute because she’s resting and she’s waiting for me to stop wrapping Christmas presents up and then I can start.”<\/p>\n
But first she has booked a trip to Asia with a friend. The pair will be flying to Hong Kong on New Year’s Day before taking a cruise around Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore and Bali.<\/p>\n
“I’m one of those people, I just get on with it and I’ve always embraced change,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Just go and do the best that you can, that’s what I always say.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ms Wilkins has also met and treated celebrities in her time at the hospital – including Chris Kamara,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-302951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}