Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.A Wishaw man survived Covid-19 after being one of the first patients to be given a drug to help those seriously ill with coronavirus.Born and raised in the town, Eddie Hughes spent weeks in hospital fighting for his life after taking ill and being hooked up to a ventilator.But Eddie battled through after being given dexamethasone, which has been hailed as a ground-breaking treatment for hospital patients seriously ill with Covid-19.He said: “I first started feeling unwell in the first week of April.
I didn’t even think it was Covid.“I had been furloughed from work and was out in the garden doing some work but then I started having difficulties breathing.“My wife.