And when you were on the ward was your wife still in hospital? Had she been discharged by that point?

She was discharged three days after I came up from ICU. So, we were pretty well…we were both on the respiratory ward but in two different parts.

But he doctors allowed her to come and see me on those couple of days we were in there together. And then she went home. And once she went home, she wasn't allowed to see me. So, our contact was through telephone and Facetime…yeah, Facetime for the next few days. Or for the next few weeks because I was in there for the best part of three more weeks before I got fit enough to be able to leave the hospital.

So, what a bizarre situation not being able to visit each other in hospital?

That's right, yeah. The only reason she did see me in hospital was because she was there with me effect. And that was the visit into ICU and the visit between the two wards which were side-by-side and linked together anyway. So yeah, so quite interesting. It was quite interesting, one of the consultants came and saw me one day and she said I've just seen your wife next door, she's just prettying herself to come around and see you because I've given them permission to allow her to pop round to see you. So quite interesting.

I remember initially it was quite mild symptoms, the first couple of days. Temperature, just feeling…it's like a flu scenario, your body was just aching and you just didn't want to move or do anything. Loss of appetite. A little cough, not much of a cough. I never lost my sense of taste or smell. So I didn't have all the symptoms which you hear about. And then over the…about day three, four, I then started having difficulty with breathing, so respiratory issues, which is what led to me needing to get myself into hospital at the point where I was really struggling to be able to just breathe. So I'd describe it as a severe case of flu like symptoms.