I had covid at the beginning of April. It starts just with a cough and feeling tired until I felt like I could barely breathe. We stayed home in isolation for 14 days feeling horrible like I never felt before.<\/p>\n
Being far away from my family made them worry a lot and feel bad because they couldn’t help or look after me. Fortunately, I have an amazing partner and great friends and neighbours who managed to do our shopping and deliver to us, especially when shelves at the shops were empty.<\/p>\n
It was an extremely challenging and difficult year not just because of the type of work we are doing or the environment we work in. It was a tough year mentally. We were not able to visit our parents abroad for over a year. Even worse was that we were afraid to go there and infect them as we were lucky to have our vaccine and they still had to wait. We saw a lot of people suffer tragic losses and people fight for every breath they took. That makes you re-evaluate your life and how you treat other people and how you want to be treated.<\/p>\n
For us, we managed to find the bright side of the whole situation. We saved money and made our dreams come true by getting a dog. It’s really helped take our minds off work and all the covid news online and in social media.<\/p>\n
Dorota, Portering, St Richard’s Hospital<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When we heard the first time about covid it seemed to be just an incident in China and it wouldn\u2019t bother us at all…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":5001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[146,150,152,144,164],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n