‘Doc Martin’ Creator Dominic Minghella Recounts Harrowing Coronavirus Experience

executive Minghella charts how he developed symptoms but initially resisted the reality of getting the illness.

We spoke to Minghella this morning and he told us, “There was no doubt it was Covid19, but I had two tests which didn’t confirm it. I heard of a guy on the same ward who had to have three before it was confirmed. No idea if the tests are faulty, or there is some other problem. I had a CT scan, the results of which they gave me to take home, and it’s all “consistent with Covid 19″. With my symptoms the doctors were in no doubt.

Five days in, still no real fever or cough. But I was beginning to feel seriously tired. My eyes were closing at the dinner table. We decided to pull the kids from school, but mostly because we were worried about catching the virus – not because we thought I already had it. The ambulance crew thought I was okay. They couldn’t hear anything in my chest. But even with oxygen support, my “sats” were low. The crew took me to nearby King’s. King’s now seems to be wholly given over to Covid. There was a long wait. My crew were told all the other “blue call” patients were like me. And the ambulances just seemed to keep coming.

The noise was spectacular, like being in an episode of ER with full surround sound, with relentless bleeping and digital alarms, some from my own monitors, and some from others. Announcements on the PA. Staff shouting. Patients shouting. Night wore on, and the discomfort was spectacular too. I was on a trolley, not a bed, and I could not find a way to stop my lower back screaming with pain

My way-station ward bed seemed to have been forgotten about. Others came and went. After perhaps 12 hours I was wheeled out. I thanked a young nurse from Lancashire – she’d provided most of my care with diligence and compassion – from the bottom of my heart, and I knew I would remember her name for the rest of my days.

The way-station ward was a commandeered private ward. I had privacy and quiet. After the tumult of A&E it was luxury. Out of the window was scaffolding and a building site, with no sign of life, and no sky. I felt horribly cut off. At least in A&E there were people. Masked people whose personalities I could not read. But people nonetheless. I knew which I preferred: people. But I also knew I needed rest. I tried to get some.

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