The news has been piling up for months that NHS hospitals across the UK are struggling to cope with demand.
Hospital beds are in incredibly limited supply and hospital staff are being pushed to their limits to make sure everyone is being seen.
But despite all the news, it wasn't until 20-year-old Molly Rogers required surgery that she realised just how bad the situation is.
She first saw her GP with gynaecological issues before being placed on a waiting list for a laparoscopy, a surgery which looks at the organs inside the abdomen. After being told she would face a maximum wait of four months, she set out a plan for her personal and schooling life.
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But that four-month deadline came and went and Molly's condition began deteriorating. Finally, she received a call that she would go under the knife this month.
She arrived to hospital, only to be told her much-needed operation had been cancelled. Molly spent two hours being comforted by a nurse, who demanded her appointment be rescheduled. During that time she witnessed the overcrowding problems facing her hospital.
She saw nurses running from patient to patient, trying to ensure they are getting the care they need. The student watched as poorly patients couldn't be transferred to their intended wards because there weren't enough beds.
The 20-year-old wrote a piece for Wales Online where she states: "Today I realised something that I'd not wanted to admit for a long time: our NHS is dying. It's on its last legs, breaking down before our very eyes.
"It's a metaphorical 69-year-old body being beaten into a heartbreakingly early end.
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"I am struggling to see how it can bounce back to become the wonderful universal service Aneurin Bevan gifted us all in 1948. There's something heart-breaking about witnessing first-hand, and from an outsider's point of view, the way the NHS is being stretched, but right now the only positive I can reach is the dedication of the staff.
"To have to get up every day and witness your workplace lose its functions, despite your best efforts, must be demoralising. Maybe together their passion to care can help bring our NHS back from the brink of death to once again become the lifesaving service so many in this country rely on."
It's a very honest account of what thousands of people endure every day as a result of the NHS crisis.
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