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A coronavirus DAD tearfully said goodbye to his wife over the phone after doctors told him to make a “final call” to his family, but he survived.
Darren Buttrick, from Coven in Staffs., Said doctors gave him 15 minutes to call loved ones because they thought he couldn’t do it.
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The father of three had no underlying health problems when he fell ill with the killer bug on March 11.
He said the breath felt like he was being “strangled.”
Darren, 48, was told to call his family before putting him in a coma and then using a ventilator at New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton.
He told Sky News: “I cried and begged the doctors and nurses before they would let me die. I begged, begged.
“And then having to tell Angela, my parents, my brothers, my sister, my family, my friends, that this could be my last conversation, I love them, it was very emotional, very distressing and I stayed there crying”.
Darren described those who cared for him as “angels” as he feared he would not wake up.
He added: “The only nurse, she looked me in the eye and said, ‘Don’t worry, we’ll save you,’ and she was stroking my arm.”
Darren, who works for a large telecommunications company, has since made a full recovery.
He said hearing about Boris Johnson’s battle with the coronavirus brought it all back to him.
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The prime minister told The Sun on Sunday that he had been denying his health for more than a week after testing positive for coronavirus, and was not overly concerned even when ordered to go to the hospital.
Johnson said “the bloody indicators were still going in the wrong direction” and realized that there was no cure for Covid-19.
He added: “I realized that he was getting very serious and I remember saying to myself,” How am I going to get out of this? “
In a lengthy and emotional interview, the Prime Minister gave a graphic description of his darkest hours at the mercy of the killer virus.
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Johnson, 55, said: “To be honest, the doctors had all kinds of plans for what to do if things went wrong.
“It wasn’t in a particularly bright shape because the oxygen levels in my blood kept dropping.
“But it was thanks to a wonderful and wonderful breastfeeding that I succeeded. They really did it and made a big difference. “
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