When Joanna Cavill was feeling fatigued, a walk to the shops took an hour instead of her usual twenty minutes. Initially, her GP put this down to the post-viral effects of Covid, which she’d contracted early in the pandemic. It turned out that Jo, who works as a physiotherapist at Devon Partnership Trust, would need emergency surgery to remove a rare tumour called a myxoma. When she awoke from surgery, all she wanted to do was phone her nephew to let him know she was okay. When her nurse went for her lunch, she came back with a bottle for her from the canteen.

Source: The Star December 19, 2021 16:01 UTC