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Video report from ITV News reporter Sejal Karia
When Geoff Woolf collapsed in his home with coronavirus, his family didn’t expect he would spend almost a year in hospital.
Geoff spent a total of 306 days being cared for in hospital after being placed in a medically induced coma.
Doctors were uncertain he would come around and his sons were prepared to say goodbye.
But a glimmer of hope emerged when activity was spotted during a brain scan and Geoff's eyes moved.
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While Geoff's lungs had started to recover from Covid-19 under sedation, the left side of his body became paralysed.