A woman with sickle cell disease was evicted from her home whilst in a coma - and came out of intensive care to find all of her possessions had gone.<br /><br />Juliet Iswan, 43, was in Bristol Royal Infirmary hospital from February 2023 after suffering from a stroke which took her into coma.<br /><br />She remained in the ICU until just two weeks ago in January 2024 - but Juliet is now staying in social housing - with nothing but a hospital bed and hospital gowns.<br /><br />Juliet was in a coma for five weeks. <br /><br />Before being rushed into hospital, Juliet had a home at the emergency housing accommodation Connolly & Callaghan, in Bristol - where she had been living for eight years. <br /><br />But whilst Juliet was in a coma, all of her belongings - including £300 in cash, her passport, irreplaceable family jewellery as well as other possessions - were either sold or disposed of - and she can not find any record of them.<br /><br />Juliet, who was born in Uganda but has been living in Bristol since 2005, said: "I was told when I came out of a coma that I had been evicted from my home and all my things were gone.<br /><br />"The most important things I cannot even put a monetary value on - necklaces, earrings, every gift I ever got from my parents was in that box - my Mum, my Grandma - and it's all apparently gone.<br /><br />"I've lost all my clothes, shoes still in boxes - I loved to walk everyday come rain come shine, I would walk but now I have nothing.<br /><br />"I don't even know where my passport is.<br /><br />"I'm now in a cold house with just a hospital bed and that is it - how can you discharge someone to this life?<br /><br />"From a coma to this - it's freezing cold - this is no way to live. I have nothing!<br /><br />"Between the council and Connolly & Callaghan, no one is taking responsibility for my stuff.<br /><br />"If I had left the flat to go to Glastonbury or something - I would understand, but they knew I was in the hospital literally unconscious."<br /><br />Juliet was born with sickle cell disease - a serious and lifelong health condition, which causes chronic pain, fatigue and other serious health problems, such as infection, acute chest syndrome and stroke - and there is no cure. <br /><br />Juliet explains how the disease means she goes to sleep in pain, "with a traffic jam of cells in your body which hinders the movement of blood in your body", often leaving her 'feeling like she's counting down the days of her life.'<br /><br />After suffering a severe stroke in 2009 - her life dramatically changed, as Juliet became physically disabled and had to have multiple hip replacements - as well as other surgeries.<br /><br />Since then, Juliet recalls being in and out of hospital - but was left in the BRI for 10 months when she suffered from a stroke.<br /><br />Juliet then went into a coma, brought about by Cerebral edema - swelling of the brain - in February 2023. <br /><br />She said: "When I was in hospital I was living in temporary accommodation - a one bedroom flat in a Stokes Croft house with Connolly & Callaghan.
