Sunita first heard about Covid on the news. At the time, Sunita thought oh this isn’t going to affect me Then things started to become more serious. For example, Sunita saw people wearing face masks when she went for a surgery to remove her ovaries in February 2020. She also remembers people wearing their hair in nets and hand sainitising stations. As this was a health care setting Sunita thought this was normal. However, shortly after, more and more people started wearing masks outside of hospitals.

Sunita felt like the first lockdown did not affect her much since she was at home for around eight weeks recovering from surgery. She says, I was already in my own lockdown Sunita’s doctors prescribed a course of chemotherapy for ovarian cancer. This worried Sunita because the chemotherapy would weaken her immune system, therefore increasing her likelihood of catching Covid. When she went for this treatment she also found it uncomfortable because her husband was not allowed to be with her. However, she does say that the hospital beds were spaced far apart so she was able to take her mask off which was a relief.

Sunita was told to stay indoors and shield; because she had just had surgery and chemotherapy. One day she felt really unwell and in a lot of pain and she thought it was from the cancer procedures. However, the pain was so bad she felt obligied to ring an ambulance. The doctors did various tests and sent her home with some medication to help with her pain. On the way home, the doctors rang her and said you;ve got Covid and you have to shield Sunita was quite upset over it, she said, I;ve got chemotherapy, ovarian cancer, and now you;re saying I;ve got Covid However, she felt lucky that she recovered from Covid within a week.