Home at last after seven weeks in intensive care, the poet pays tribute to ‘incredible’ NHS doctors and nurses
The poet Michael Rosen is only alive because his wife, Emma-Louise Williams, and a GP friend recognised that his condition was deteriorating and took him to A&E in the nick of time, he told the Observer Magazine in an emotional interview this weekend.
Rosen, 74, who came down with coronavirus in mid-March, returned home last week after spending 48 days in intensive care at the Whittington hospital in north London. He spent a further three weeks on a rehabilitation ward, learning to walk again.
He is the kindest, most expressive, hardworking, articulate, laughter-inducing, tear-jerking poet in the business
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