Nurse stunned after patients in hospital ward thought Covid was a hoax
Senior charge nurse Rosario Walshe spoke of the huge spike in recent cases at the Scottish hospital
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A coronavirus patient who was on the same hospital ward as his wife of more than half a century hopes to get home to see her on Monday, saying they have “never been apart”.
James ‘Jim’ Tierney, 85, and his wife Mary, known as May, 83, ended up in separate rooms on a coronavirus ward at Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert after testing positive for the virus.
The couple, from Camelon, Falkirk, were taken to hospital more than a fortnight ago after Mr Tierney collapsed at home and he was so unwell he cannot remember much of his stay.
Now sitting by his hospital bed no longer wearing an oxygen mask, he told the PA news agency: “I was falling in the bathroom, falling in the bedroom. I landed in hospital and I know nothing until I really came up into here and I was getting better.
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