A 66-year-old nurse who contracted coronavirus passed away only three days before she was due to retire.
Janice Glassey, an NHS nurse who ‘gave her life’ to help patients, passed away and has sparked thousands of tributes.
Her heartbroken daughter, 44-year-old Kerri Glassey, begged others not to get complacent about the deadly virus and said people shouldn’t assume the bug won’t take any of their loved ones.
“People need to realize that this is happening,” she expressed. “They shouldn’t be complacent or think that it can’t happen to them, because it can and it will. The lockdown has been put in place for a reason and people who are abusing it are putting their lives and everyone else’s at risk.”
It was on March 23 when the 66-year-old nurse fell ill.
“She fell ill the day after Mother’s Day,” Miss Glassey shared. “I was calling everyday but she kept telling me she was fine, that was the mum in her, I don’t think she wanted to worry us.
“But I was worried because I could hear the cough and she told me she had no energy and had stopped eating. She was so poorly by the time she got to hospital that they took her straight to intensive care.”
Miss Glassey continued: “She worked for the NHS for 14 years but was a care worker in the community with a private care firm for many years before that.
“We have been comforted by all the messages we’ve had from people saying how she cared for their loved ones at the end.”
She also said her mother had found a loving partner four years ago after divorcing her father twenty years ago.
People paid tribute on social media, with one writing: “She’s given all her life and saved people and this is what happens. My thoughts and prayers are with her family.”
Another wrote: “This woman has spent her life saving and caring for the ill, then this happens. Just before she should be retiring and spending her life relaxing and going on holidays. It is heartbreaking.”
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