'I couldn't even reach for the tissues': Financial adviser discusses her Covid-19 experience

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Hannah Godfrey
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Helm Godfrey director, shareholder and adviser Susie Foottit came down with the coronavirus 10 days ago. But thanks to a strong immune system, she says, she is on the mend and feeling much better.

What started as a dry cough - as is typical with the coronavirus - her illness soon became an energy-sapping flu that left the financial adviser bed-bound and barely able to remember the first four days living with the virus. "I couldn't even reach a box of tissues on the side of my bed," she says, adding paracetamol and Sudafed helped control her headache and temperature - two other symptoms typically associated with the virus. Unfortunately, Foottit passed the virus onto her husband, who had a similar experience. While she is sure she had the coronavirus, having exhibited all the sy...

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