A woman has spoken of the "catastrophic" day which led to to her mum and stepdad both dying of coronavirus within days of each other.
Amanda Redgewell, 58, a former NHS nurse of 38 years, wrote a book on how the virus ripped through her family, leaving her in critical care for two weeks.
A total of seven relatives contracted the virus, with four of them being taken to hospital, SomersetLive reports.
Mrs Redgewell spent a month in the Royal United Hospital in Bath fighting the virus when she tested positive in January after visiting her mum, who was later found to have gastric coronavirus.
Her mother Pamela Davis, 85, and her husband of 48 years Alan Davis, 74, both from Gloucestershire, died just days apart in the hospital where they were being treated.
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Her sister Sally Wade, 56, from Stonehouse in Gloucestershire, was also left "fighting for her life" in Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.
Both sisters' husbands, Malcolm Redgewell, 64, and Tony Wade, 64, fell ill with the virus along with Georgia Wade, 24, Mrs Redgewell's niece.
Mrs Redgewell has dedicated the profits of her Who Cares Wins book to the Royal United Hospital, who "saved my life".
Part of the sales will also go to the Dorothy House Hospice where she works as a palliative care nurse.
Recollecting how it all started, she Mrs Redgewell said: "One day in January was fateful for my entire family.
"We had all been so good, keeping so safe and not seeing each other as we knew how serious the situation was.
"I have worked for the past four years at Dorothy House in the palliative care team for people who want to die at home and before that I was a local district nurse so I'd been wearing PPE at work.
"We didn't see each other for Christmas but during that time my mother, Pamela, became confused and had started seeing things.
"It was over the new year period where getting a doctor was hard and she was becoming increasingly unwell and she came down with sickness and diarrhoea.
"My dad, Alan, phoned me and my sister and said he didn't know where to begin with her as she was wondering around being sick and he was alarmed.
"He had been her carer for many years after she had a lung removed from cancer some years ago.
"My sister and I made the decision after that phone call on January 4 to go and see what was wrong as I could help.
"We were both in full PPE, masks, aprons, gloves, and we quickly realised how unwell she was and phoned the GP who sent for an ambulance for mum.
"At the time we didn't think she had Covid as it diarrhoea and sickness.
"But it was, and it led to me taking coronavirus home to my husband Malcolm and my sister, Sally, taking it home to her husband Tony and daughter Georgia."
Soon after January 4, Alan Davis, 74, was admitted to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, alongside his wife.
Both Mrs Redgewell and her sister were then rushed to hospital, with the former going to the Royal United Hospital in Bath, while the latter was taken to Gloucestershire Royal.
She said: "My parents both passed away within days of each other in the first week. It's hard to describe it.
"My sister was on oxygen therapy and was in hospital for three weeks and I was in for a month, two weeks on the critical care ward.
"The effect on my family is devastating, we have lost beloved parents and grandparents who were the centre of our family all from that day and our family was very worried myself and my sister wouldn't make it either."
The former nurse said she was inspired to write the book by the "exemplar" care she received at the hospital.
"I was so proud of the nurses who looked after me I wanted to write it down but also I wanted the children to know what happened to their grandparents.
"I wanted our Covid story to be recorded - this catastrophic family event."
Mrs Redgewell had a stroke while in hospital and has been left with some weakness on her left side and heart problems.
Her sister Sally has been left breathless and suffering from fatigue. Malcolm, Tony and Georgia have recovered well.
The book is available on Amazon.
