When Sophie’s Dad Charlie went to hospital with suspected gastroenteritis, coronavirus was the last thing on the family’s minds. But he was diagnosed with Covid-19.
What followed was a two month stay at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, and a fight for his life in intensive care – just a few floors below where his daughter works as a ward clerk.
In this video Sophie talks about the kindness of colleagues that got her though the tough times when her Dad was unwell.
She says: “We can’t staff thank enough. There are no words, no presents, there’s nothing that can actually tell them how indebted we are to them.
“The doctors, nurses, consultants absolutely, but the wider team that helped him; the speech and language team, the dietitians, the pharmacists, the cleaners, the people who fed him – because he was so hungry!
“It’s just such a massive team, of administrators, clerks, secretaries, there’s so many people right across the board who have helped him to be here now.
“We will always be grateful to them for keeping our Dad here.”
Sophie’s Dad Charles Coulton was the first patient admitted to University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust with coronavirus. We caught up with him a few days after he went home.