Cambuslang covid-19 patient wakes from two month coma to find out he will be grandfather
Brian Fernie had one of the longest stays with Covid-19 in the intensive care unit at University Hospital Hairmyres in East Kilbride, including 61 days in an induced coma on a ventilator.
Brian was delighted to find out he’s going to be a grandad
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By Christopher Bobyn
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image captionAt 5am, staff nurse Natasha Cumming tends to the ventilation tubing of a Covid-19 patient
In April, at the peak of the first wave of the Covid pandemic, I was given exclusive access to the intensive care unit at University Hospital Hairmyres in East Kilbride.
Those images were among the first in Scotland to show an ICU treating people infected with coronavirus.
Dr. Austin Rattray leads the ICU nightshift.
He says: There is an element of fatigue, but we anticipated that we would be back here again, especially in the ICU, and now the third peak is here.
Scots Covid-19 patient wakes from two month coma to find out he will be grandfather
The experience so shook the 46-year-old from Cambuslang that he is now planning to marry his partner of 22 years.
Brian Fernie woke up from a coma to find out he is going to be a grandfather (Image: PA)
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