A grandad who spent eight months fighting for his life in hospital with coronavirus pulled through with the help of his son's regular Facetime pep talks.
Gary Dissington, 57, was in a coma for much of his stay at Royal Oldham Hospital and then Rochdale Infirmary - during which time doctors and nurses saved his life multiple times.
But he does remember the talks his truck driver son, also named Gary, gave, in which he told the grandfather-of-six: "Come on dad!
Get through this! Crack on!" The taxi driver from Shaw, Oldham, in Greater Manchester, was admitted on March 29 after contracting Covid-19 and was placed into an induced coma following several setbacks, reports the Manchester Evening News.