A newlywed nurse who lost her mother to cancer is now battling the cruel disease herself aged just 26. Julia Cullen, from Hartlepool, County Durham, was dealt the blow just weeks after getting married when she came home tired from her honeymoon. Working 60 hours a week in the intensive care unit at the North … Read more
A Canadian nurse who caught the novel coronavirus months ago said she’s tested positive eight times in the last 50 days. On March 30, Tracy Schofield, from Cambridge, Ontario, began experiencing symptoms such as chills, a fever, and shortness of breath. The following day, she took her first test for COVID-19, the disease caused by … Read more
Nurse, 43, shares shocking photo of his 50lb weight loss while hospitalized for two months fighting COVID-19 Mike Schultz, 43, was only released from a Massachusetts hospital last week after spending 57 days battling coronavirus-induced pneumonia Schultz posted a photo on Instagram last week to show just how much the virus has ravaged his body … Read more
Touching moment a nurse who has dedicated more than 40 years to the NHS is applauded by friends and colleagues as she leaves hospital after overcoming coronavirus Sue Snelson, from Scunthorpe, has dedicated more than 40 years to the NHS Was applauded by colleagues as she left intensive care unit she used to manage NHS worker, … Read more
Emergency workers and NHS staff lined the streets in tribute to a nurse and his parents who died after contracting Covid-19. Father-of-two Keith Dunnington, who worked at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, as a staff nurse and spent 30 years on the front line, was 54 when he died after contracting coronvirus … Read more
NHS student nurse, 35, tells how Sir Rod Stewart sent her £5,000 cheque to help her through ‘rough times’ after she beat coronavirus Nurse Natasha Jenkins spent 22 days on a ventilator fighting coronavirus She contracted the deadly virus while working on the NHS frontline So rapid was her decline that she cannot recall how … Read more
A brave nurse has sent a heartbreaking apology to a church warden who was stabbed to death on a supermarket shopping trip saying: ‘I’m sorry I couldn’t save you.’ NHS worker Lisa Way, 53, was also injured in the attack inside a village Co-op where grandfather John Rees, 88, was killed as his wife Eunice … Read more
An intensive care nurse has spoken of the heartbreaking moment his ‘goggles filled up with tears’ after he had to decide whose hand to hold between two patients dying from coronavirus. Tonight’s one-off Channel 4 documentary NHS Heroes: Fighting to Save Our Lives, follows the stories of a collection of frontline NHS workers who filmed … Read more
Married mother-of-three NHS nurse, 63, dies after catching coronavirus just two years before she was due to retire following nearly 40 years in the job Philomina Cherian, 63, died at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford on Thursday Married mother-of-three was due to retire in two years after serving for 40 years Described as a ‘great … Read more
A widow was forced to say goodbye to her dying husband by leaving a message with a nurse over the phone – after he tested positive with coronavirus despite having no symptoms. Pat Pearce, 75, asked a nurse to tell Allan, her partner of 38 years, she was sorry she couldn’t be with him and … Read more