Michelle Thorley (L) and her mum Christine Guttridge
Christine Guttridge has been shielding for eight months to avoid being exposed to the disease but her loved ones say that’s exactly what happened when she attended the Royal Stoke University Hospital for a routine procedure.
The 75-year-old had no symptoms for the illness except breathlessness but her family say as she suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and heart problems that was not unusual.
Daughter Michelle Thorley claims her mum was left in the hospital waiting room for hours, Stoke on Trent Live reports, and ended up taking her home before treatment because the elderly woman was so distressed.
Michelle, 53 said: “My mum, who is clinically highly vulnerable, was left in a room with five Covid patients. Nothing was done with her. She had a mask but because she has severe COPD she had to keep pulling it down to get her breath.
“In the end, she was getting really frightened. She got a nurse to ring me to pick her up. They then sat her by the doors in the cold for 25 minutes until I got there. She was so cold she was shaking.”
Were“Mum has been fantastic. She has stayed at home, which she hates because she likes to get out and about.
