Susan | Frontline nursing to homeworking

Susan talks about her experience of volunteering as a Patient Ambassador with Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis during the last 10 months of Lockdown. Susan has pulmonary fibrosis. Overnight she switched from frontline nursing to front room home working.

I am a nurse and was working in Addenbrookes Hospital Emergency Department through to around 11th March 2020 when I was instructed by my Respiratory Team to shield.

Even before I left work that Wednesday, and I remember it well, I could see patients arriving by ambulance. They were very poorly, symptomatic of COVID. My daughter is a doctor who was working at Northwick Park at that time so I was well abreast of the evolving situation. I was also aware that any respiratory virus attacking the alveoli and causing ARDS would be bad news for patients like myself with pulmonary fibrosis.

Click here to read the full story on the Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis website.