direct to your inboxCoronavirus has not just left people seriously ill and battling the virus in hospital, it has also had a huge impact on patients suffering from other conditions.The virus has also left many young people, including 24-year-old Sophie Mulligan, facing the prospect of undergoing cancer treatment alone.
Sophie, who was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia, told how she cried as she arrived at the Christie Hospital in Didsbury, to begin three weeks of treatment without the support of her mum. "My mum drove me from Liverpool to Manchester and literally dropped me off at the door with my suitcase," she told the Mirror. "I had to walk in and I knew that I wasn’t going to be seeing her for a good few weeks while I had my.