Seventeen days in hospital. Eight of them on a ventilator. The helpless shock of your body learning how to breathe again. "The best way I can describe it is imagine someone holding a cushion against your mouth and nose. "Very occasionally it slips, giving you just enough breath to keep going." Paranoia, post-traumatic stress disorder and 'horrifying, untrue' hallucinations, some violent.
Patients dying six feet away. A Covid-19 survivor who fought and won has shared in graphic, personal detail exactly what it's like to battle the virus by revealing a daily diary of his experience he wrote to aid his recovery after returning home.