A COVID patient who spent 11 days in hospital weeps with Kate Garraway as she is given the all clear on a new BBC show.
Appearing on Your Body Uncovered this evening, kind-hearted Rozi tells Kate she hopes her husband, Derek, recovers from the virus too.
She says: “In the fullness of time I hope that Derek gets there too. Even if he only gets halfway it’ll be an improvement on now.”
He caught Covid very early on the in pandemic and spent 374 days in hospital, with the illness having a serious effect on his body.
Misty-eyed Kate tells Rozi she wishes they could hug, but due to restrictions at the time of filming, they are unable to.
Rozi was struck with the virus in the summer, after a holiday with her family.
She ended up being taken to hospital by her husband Jonny while struggling to breathe, and she didn’t reemerge for almost a fortnight.
She tells Kate: “I never felt so bad in my life. I just thought to myself I’m never coming out of here.”
The gran is appearing on the BBC2 show tonight – which gives people amazing visual representations of their condition – to see what happened to her lungs.
Kate says: “As I think you know my husband started getting sick at the beginning of the pandemic, when they didn’t even know the effects on the body – a lot of them, of course, we are still discovering now.
“What do you hope seeing the effect of Covid on your lungs?”
Rozi explains: “It will help me close the circle for me to be able to understand in a visual way what it was that happened to my body that made me so very sick.”
She is faced with detailed augmented reality depictions of her own lungs, created using hospital scans when her body was in the throes of a severe Covid infection.
Rozi gasps while looking at her lungs, full of bright orange “angry” Covid.
The doctor who treated her in hospital tells her more than a quarter of her air sacs had filled with fluid, mucus and dead cells, which left her struggling to breathe.
She says: “This is the most fascinating thing I’ve ever seen in my life.
“Oh my goodness, it’s so much.
“I don’t think I have ever felt that ill in my life. You can’t lift your limbs and you can’t walk, and the headache.”
