Despite being in the highest-risk category after contracting coronavirus, Maureen Appleby is fighting fit again after successfully beating the virus.
"I couldn't believe what they did. I don't know where those people came from," she said of the glamorous farewell.Ms Appleby spent about a week at the Austin being treated for the virus, but her health problems began several weeks earlier when she fell in the bathroom and fractured four ribs.
At the time, her son John had been experiencing head and body aches, but said hospital staff had refused him a coronavirus test because he had not been showing serious enough symptoms. When Ms Appleby's body temperature soared to 44 degrees she was tested and found to have coronavirus.Doctors, nurses praised for 'wonderful' work
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