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A brave nurse who ‘took her own life’ after struggling to cope when she lost three limbs to sepsis was laid to rest following a horse-drawn procession through her home town. People lined the streets to say farewell to Jayne Carpenter, 53, ahead of her funeral today at St Tydfil’s Old Parish Church in Merthyr … Read more
NHS student nurse, 36, who was gifted £5,000 from Rod Stewart to help her through ‘rough times’ after she almost died from Covid returns to her dream job at hospital eight months later Trainee nurse Natasha Jenkins, 36, spent 22 days on a ventilator back in March Mother-of-three received £5,000 from Rod Stewart as she … Read more
After everything she’s been through, if anyone deserves a happy Christmas it is Leona Harris. As a frontline nurse on a Covid ward in Lancashire since the start of the pandemic, she has spent the past year working gruelling 14-hour shifts, tightly swaddled in a stifling gown, mask and visor. Not that it has always … Read more
Tennessee nurse faints live on air minutes after getting Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine – but she says it’s down to a condition that causes her to collapse when she feels pain Nurse Tiffany Dover fainted on TV 17 minutes after receiving the vaccine She was talking about why it was important for healthcare workers to receive … Read more
Tennessee nurse faints live on air minutes after getting Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine – but she says it’s down to a condition that causes her to collapse when she feels pain Nurse Tiffany Dover fainted on TV 17 minutes after receiving the vaccine She was talking about why it was important for healthcare workers to receive … Read more
A ‘ruthless’ student nurse jailed for stealing more than £250,000 from the estates of two dead strangers has refused to compensate their relatives by selling her house nine years later. Georgia Forteath, 41, and her husband Harvil Connally, 49, duped the probate authorities in 2009 and 2010. Forteath was planning to fund a property empire … Read more
Slice of kindness! Baker creates a stunning 6ft cake of Father Christmas hugging an NHS worker in scrubs to thank hospital staff for their work Rosie Dummer, 53, spent two weeks painstakingly preparing the giant cake The baker, from Manchester, said the piece weighed more than 30 stone Edible treat was delivered to the Royal … Read more
Mother of NHS nurse, 29, killed by Covid begs families not to ‘go crazy’ and meet up at Christmas because they will spread virus Nurse Rebecca Mack died at her home in Morpeth, Northumberland in April She was self-isolating with symptoms of Covid and died after calling paramedics Her mother Marion has urged families to … Read more
A woman with chronic fatigue who was surviving on 10 minutes of deep sleep a night and spent £500 a year on aids has hailed a natural pillow spray and eye mask ‘life-changing’. Charlotte Duggan, 26, from Surrey, was forced to go on sick leave from her job as an advertising account manager after being … Read more
A brave nurse who said she was ‘not having quality of life but enduring it’ after losing both her legs and an arm to sepsis has been found dead aged 53. Jayne Carpenter, from Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales, was admitted into intensive care after her chesty cough developed into sepsis in May 2016. She spent … Read more