'We're so proud of our mum's brave fight against Covid'

After 10 days in a coma at Blackpool Victoria Hospital, her oxygen levels falling and what appeared an ‘all or nothing’ bid to raise them having apparently failed, the family of the 67-year-old from Mereside took the heartbreaking decision for medics to withdraw care.

Despite her brave battle against coronavirus, there appeared nothing more doctors could do for Susan and the family asked if she could come home to die peacefully.

Almost a week after arriving back at home in Seathwaite Avenue, Susan’s family were encouraged by what appeared to be her improving condition and called in medics for a reassessment.

Her oxygen levels had drastically increased, her progress continued and less than six weeks after leaving hospital, she is almost back to her normal self, with a little more fatigue than previously the only difference – and has even been out and about shopping with daughter Emma.

“We are so proud of her – we thought we had lost her,” said Emma.

“The world is full of bad news at the moment and we are so thrilled that mum can provide a bit of positivity for the world.”

Susan, a retired toy factory worker, was admitted to the Vic with Covid on October 9 and three days later was put into an induced coma and on a ventilator after developing Covid Pneumonia.

“That started to lift off her chest and she slowly made progress,” said Emma.

“But a few days later, she got secondary pneumonia and that sent her oxygen levels were all over the place and she was requiring high amounts of it.