The social worker is now being supported by the North Cumbria Integrated Care long COVID service.
“I thought I had a cold so I was just taking it a bit easy, but then my breathing got so bad that I couldn’t take my inhaler that I use to control my asthma,” Lisa said.
“Not for one minute did I think that I had COVID because I didn’t have a new persistent cough and that was the main symptom they were emphasising then.
“I went to Workington hospital where they were absolutely brilliant and explained they would take a COVID test in case. The next day they told me I had tested positive. I was stunned, I couldn’t have been more careful and hadn’t been in shops or anything.