Rod Stewart surprised student nurse Natasha Jenkins with a check for £5000 ($6000) after hearing about her 22-day COVID-19 coma
"My house phone rang one day, and it was a lady saying, 'I'm calling on behalf of Rod Stewart,'" student nurse Natasha Jenkins, 35, from Barry in South Wales, tells PEOPLE.You'll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications.
"They tried to lower my sedation and then I'd get ill again or agitated," adds Jenkins. "So they had to put the sedation right back up. My oxygen levels were constantly up and down." "My children are off school like everyone else's, but their headmaster knocked on the door and left some food on my doorstep. It's been really lovely."
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