Student nurse Keren Nairns lost both her grandparents to Covid last year.
Her gran Agnes Addison, from Bannockburn in Stirlingshire, died from the virus but the family believe her grandad Davy Wilson’s death is also partly attributable to Covid.
Agnes, 69, died on March 29 last year while Davy, 61, passed away on October 7, while awaiting a hospital referral for an unrelated matter.
Keren, 26, thinks Agnes contracted Covid at a 50th birthday party. She said: “She became unwell 24 hours after the party but stayed at home for the first seven days.
On day eight, I phoned her and she still wasn’t good. I drove from Glasgow to Stirling but by the time I got there, her hands and feet were starting to turn blue.”
Agnes was taken to hospital and after she was put on dialysis as her kidneys had begun to shut down, her son Chris, 46, travelled from England to join Keren and Davy at her bedside.
Keren said: “We got to say goodbye but my grandad didn’t want to see her that way – he was absolutely distraught.”
In lockdown, Davy was isolated, still grieving and, as he was shielding, was unable to go to the job he loved as a pensions administrator.
Keren hired a cleaner to help Davy with housework but got a call saying Davy was not answering his door.
A neighbour went round and found him dead on his bed.
Keren said: “My dad and I have autoimmune diseases and my mum has asthma.
"Some of my grandad’s siblings are vulnerable, too. It felt like the world was out to get you.”
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