A Halloween Tale: Covid-19 and The Amazing Recovery of Todd Lamprun
Todd Lamprun knew that he was one of the lucky ones. Three weeks ago and for four weeks before that he had been lying in a hospital bed wired to a myriad of life-support machines and monitors in the Covid-19 intensive care unit of Feelgood Hospital. For a while it had been touch and go but now he found himself in a room on a side-ward regaining his strength and coming to terms with his close encounter of the Covid kind. He felt physically weak, encountered spells of confusion and was prone to moments of forgetfulness. Periodic mood swings enveloped him. These ranged from anger at not knowing how he had contracted the disease in the first place, a deep sadness at not having had any visitors since his admission to hospital and moments of joy at the realisation that he was still alive against all the odds. His daily routine revolved around a morning visit from the consultant occasionally accompanied by a student doctor, the duty-nurse who would take his blood pressure and temperature and