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'Healthy' carer blinded by coronavirus learning to walk again after beating Covid-19

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A care home worker who was blinded by coronavirus is learning to walk again. Sarah Smith, 53, has been in hospital for the last seven weeks battling Covid-19 after first self-isolating with symptoms in early April.

On April 14 the previously fit and healthy mum-of-three was taken to the high dependency unit at James Cook University Hospital, where she was placed on a CPAP machine and a hood ventilator to help her breathe.

But after less than a week she had to be moved to intensive care and put into an induced coma. Daughter Rebecca, 29, explained that her mum developed a secondary bacterial infection in her lungs, and on May 6 began having seizures which left swelling on her brain. "Doctors are hoping the PRES syndrome brain swelling she

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