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Long Covid 'ages nurse ten years' forcing her to walk with zimmer frame

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Covid-19 has aged her 10 years in just six months.Paula McCarten, 57, is now forced to walk with a zimmer frame after becoming one of the UK's longest-suffering patients after being infected with the virus.The mum-of-three was running marathons before becoming ill in April and now can't walk across her living room unaided.The Prison nurse at HMP Humberside spent 135 in hospital with 98 days of those in intensive care, reports The Mirror.Now the gran is lifting the lid on her horror Covid-19 nightmare on Channel 4's Dispatches about long Covid.Paula said: "I had a stroke, then a brain bleed, then I fitted - the longest being 55 minutes." "I got infections in my legs, nose and forehead.

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