Climbing the Covid-19 mountain

Thomas Lyons

When Seamus Smyth was admitted to Cavan General Hospital on March 27 he had no idea that it would be 84 days before he would be discharged from medical care. Seamus said he was in a state of delirium and although he remembers locking the door of his house and his car, it would be mid-April before he was again conscious of his surroundings.

A resident of Mullagh, Seamus works with the Defence Forces in Dublin.

“I don't remember coming into the hospital,” he told The Anglo-Celt. “They said I was talking the whole way down the road in the ambulance, but I have no recollection of that.”

After his admission to Cavan General he was transferred to intensive care, then the high dependency unit. Following this he was moved to coronary care, then the medical ward 2, before a final transfer to the Rehabilitation Unit in Monaghan Hospital.

“I don't remember going into the hospital, nothing, until I woke up on April 19,” he said.

You can read about Seamus' story in this week's newspaper.