A dad who died after testing positive for Covid-19 had begged not to be put in a coma because he feared he wouldn't wake up, his heartbroken fiancee says.
Leon Boase, 40, spoke to his longtime partner Nichola Jennison for the last time in a FaceTime call while he was being treated at James Cook Hospital in Middlesbrough.
Doctors had given him just 1% chance of survival. Grieving Nichola, 38, told TeessideLive: "His last words to me were 'don't put me to sleep, I won't wake up'. "I'll never forget that.
It was so heartbreaking to hear but I told him to stop being silly and that he would be home soon. "I just can't get my head around what happened. "He never smoked, he didn't drink, he didn't go out, he was always so cautious but now he's