Nurses suffering from Long Covid have told how their lives and careers have been left in ruins after picking up the virus as they cared for others.Nurse Brenda Eadie told how she has been left penniless after Long Covid stopped her working and admitted: “There are thousands of us with Long Covid who have been left destitute; on our hands and knees begging for handouts.“Sometimes I find myself screaming ‘God just take me now, I don’t want to be here any more’.”A nursing colleague, who asked not to be named, said without a financial miracle she is unlikely to see another Christmas.
The desperate woman faces selling her home because of the illness she caught at work.Both women are speaking out to back a private members bill by Labour MSP Mark Griffin which calls for essential workers who suffer Long Covid to be classed as having an industrial injury if it was caught at work.Brenda, 45, a former nurse at Low Moss Prison, caught Covid in March 2020.
She said: “I developed a shortness of breath and had to be taken to hospital by ambulance.“I was in hospital for two days on oxygen and was then sent home with a nebuliser.
I spent about a whole month in bed at home."I lost whole days. My whole body was in pain, as if there was something sitting on it.