Dundee man beats Covid-19 after 10-week fight.

Wife tells of delight at her husband’s Ninewells recovery

An inspirational Dundee joiner has left intensive care after winning his near 10-week battle with Covid-19.

Bob Morning, 65, was first admitted to Ninewells Hospital on April 4 at the start of a rapid descent into the deadly grip of coronavirus.

Within days he was put on a ventilator in the intensive care unit.

His wife Joyce has spoken of the nightmare she endured watching him struggle with the disease, the joy of hearing his first words after weeks in an induced coma and her gratitude to the frontline heroes who saved him.

Ninewells staff lined the corridor of the ICU earlier this week to applaud Bob as he was taken to another ward to continue his recovery.

His wife is still waiting to hug him again but said she can hold on for a moment she feared might not come.

The couple, of Balunie Avenue in Dundee, had recently returned from Poland when Bob began to feel unwell.

“The other couple we were with have been fine but he might have got it there, we just don’t know,” said Joyce. “He was lethargic – I told him I thought he was just being lazy – and he tried to shake it with a hot toddy.”

Bob’s temperature was normal but after almost a week, paramedics were called and he was rushed to hospital.

“When he was being taken away he even asked me for his wallet and bus pass so he could get home from the hospital,” said Joyce. Instead, Bob was soon to be fighting for his life.

She used Facetime so her desperately ill husband could still hear her voice and, eventually, Bob woke and waved to her.

“He took a chest and lung infection, which set him back, but then he was able to speak to me and said ‘love you’ and blew me a kiss.

“He seems to be really good now – I think Bob knows what he has come through and he couldn’t believe how long he had been in there.

“I cannot think of enough to say about the doctors and nurses in Ninewells.”

ICU nurse Valerie Guilford, who has been caring for Bob, said: “He truly is an inspiration to all of us.”

Picture below: Gareth Jennings. Bob with nurses at Ninewells and, below, Joyce Morning at home with flowers from her husband.