A retired lawyer who survived Covid-19 after contracting the virus in the early weeks of the pandemic made an emotional return home today after spending 306 days in hospital.
Geoffrey Woolf, 74, who was rushed to hospital last March after collapsing over breakfast, is believed to have spent one of the longest periods in hospital of any Covid patient before being discharged.
Such was the seriousness of his condition that his three sons were called in to say goodbye at one point during the summer, before their father then, in their words, “suddenly woke up” in July.
Since his discharge from an intensive care unit at Whittington hospital he has been undergoing treatment at the Royal Hospital for Neuro-Disability in Putney in London for the brain damage caused by the virus, which also caused paralysis down one side of his body, and aphasia.
“The staff and carers at the hospital have been amazing. And also the staff at the Whittington,” said Woolf, who added that he was happy to be coming home to Holloway in north London on a day that meant “freedom”.
Asked what was most looking forward to, he replied: “Steak and chips.”
Woolf had been studying for a degree in art history at London’s City Lit adult education college having retired shortly before contracting the virus. As an active gym goer with no underlying health conditions, his sudden collapse had come out of the blue, while doctors who first saw him after his sons dialled 999 on 23 March had suspected meningitis.
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