A woman who had been due to get married last year when she was diagnosed with coronavirus is now learning to walk again after 13 months in hospital.
Rachel Booth, 38, an occupational therapist at Middlesbrough s Roseberry Park Hospital, described how she was left suicidal after she was diagnosed with life-threatening pancreatitis and Covid-19 last year.
The bride-to-be, from Linthorpe, Teesside, had been preparing for her wedding when she began to experience excruciating heartburn at work in April last year.
She was rushed to James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough and immediately placed on the intensive care unit (ICU) after staff determined she had both acute pancreatitis and Covid.
Therapist Rachel misses her wedding day being hospitalised for 13 months with Covid and pancreatitis
Rachel Booth had been due to get married in 2020 but was left unable to speak, walk or even stand
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At the start of 2020, Rachel Booth was busy preparing for her wedding.
She had also just started a secondment as lead occupational therapist at secure services at Middlesbrough s Roseberry Park Hospital.
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A woman has claimed her husband would track her, control her money and read emails and texts during a controlling marriage lasting years.
Richard Anthony Gardiner, of Heywood Road in Diss, denies one charge of coercive and controlling behaviour over his wife between January 1, 2016 and October 4, 2019 in Wymondham.
A trial, which began at Great Yarmouth Magistrates Court on Tuesday, February 16, heard evidence from his wife, who accused Gardiner of making her send him £50,000 to pay his ex-wife, as well as tracking her whereabouts with the Find My Friends app.
She said: I would take the path of least resistance where I could because the consequences were quite debilitating and I was never anywhere I shouldn t be and had nothing to hide it.
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Tourism Industry Aotearoa suggested to the Government that in its first 100 days it should give every New Zealander a $200 travel card.
An international airline lobby group, which includes Air New Zealand as a member, is calling on governments to give their citizens vouchers to spend on travel as a way to boost domestic tourism. The International Air Transport Association (Iata) has identified five ways that governments can help stimulate air travel, which is facing projected global losses of US$39 billion (NZ$55b) in 2021. The initiatives include waiving government charges, taxes and fees to airlines and passengers, route subsidies for domestic flights, financial incentives to airlines for operating flights, advance ticket purchases by governments that can be used for official travel or distributed to the public, and passenger travel subsidies in the form of vouchers for passengers or as a percentage cash-back on overall travel costs.