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As Wales coronavirus death toll passes 5,000 people, we are sharing some of your tributes to those who have died with Covid-19 during the pandemic.
Cheryl Saunders
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Cheryl Saunders, from Abercarn in Caerphilly county, spent her whole 40-year career working in the NHS as a medical secretary in respiratory medicine, first of all in Caerphilly Miners Hospital and later at Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr in nearby Ystrad Mynach.
media captionAs the Covid death toll passed 5,000 in Wales, families have been sharing stories of the people behind the numbers
She still worked in respiratory medicine at the start of the pandemic, but was forced to stop working in the summer after being diagnosed with advanced metastatic renal - or kidney - cancer.