A hospital radiographer left paralysed by coronavirus proposed to his girlfriend as he though he was going to die. Today Paul Skegg, 42, was given a rapturous guard of honour by colleagues as he walked out of hospital following his miraculous recovery.
Paul spent 11 days in intensive care at the Darent Valley Hospital in Dartford, Kent - during which time he proposed online to his partner Katy Lavender.
His colleague Dr Jonathan Kwan, the hospital's divisional medical director, said: "Today, we lined the corridor for one of our own and clapped this frontline NHS staff home, following a 16-day stay at Darent Valley Hospital." Paul, who has worked for the NHS for 24 years, was admitted on April 3.
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