At the beginning of COVID-19, it was frightening. I continued to work at base and reduced face to face visits, but continued to keep in contact with service users.

My daughter got COVID early on but luckily was not too unwell. She worked on a ward at Pilgrim where one of her colleagues sadly died of COVID.

One of our consultants also got COVID and was in ICU for a long time, but sadly lost his life.

The good thing was time to enjoy the basics of life - calm down, enjoy nature and our homes and gardens.

I missed my family, yet it brought us closer.