In her account, Ms Wakefield said her husband ‘rushed home’ after she became ill.
‘But 24 hours later he said ”I feel weird”.’.
‘Day in, day out for ten days he lay doggo with a high fever and spasms that made the muscles lump and twitch in his legs. He could breathe, but only in a limited, shallow way,’ she wrote.
‘After a week, we reached peak corona uncertainty. Day six is a turning point, I was told: that’s when you either get better or head for ICU.
‘But was Dom fighting off the bug or was he heading for a ventilator? Who knew? I sat on his bed staring at his chest, trying to count his breaths per minute.
‘The little oxygen reader we’d bought on Amazon indicated that he should be in hospital, but his lips weren’t blue and he could talk in full sentences, such as: ‘Please stop staring at my chest, sweetheart.’
Ms Wakefield said Ceddy, had ‘administered’ Ribena to Mr Cummings with the ‘grim insistence of a Broadmoor nurse’.
‘This might be my only useful advice for other double-Covid parents or single mothers with pre-schoolers,’ she wrote. ‘Get out the doctor’s kit and make it your child’s job to take your temperature. Any game that involves lying down is a good game.’
‘After the uncertainty of the bug itself, we emerged from quarantine into the almost comical uncertainty of London lockdown. Everything and its opposite seems true. People are frightened and they’re calm; it’s spring and it’s not. Queueing’s a pain in the ass and the most fun you’ll have all day. “
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So – completely forgot to mention Durham ……..
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“Mr Cummings and Ms Wakefield married in 2011. Mary is a journalist (Editor?) for the Spectator and the daughter of Sir Humphry Tyrrell Wakefield, owner of Chillingham Castle and a friend of Prince Philip. “
