Brendan Sheridan, our assistant coach, has reiterated that his biggest battle now in his bid to regain a full recovery from Covid-19 is in coming to terms with how quickly the virus hit him and how close he came to losing his life.
Interviewed on BBC Radio Leeds, he said:
“It’s the mental side that’s proving difficult at the moment.”
Richard Stead, who was interviewing him, put a lot of emphasis on the fact that Shez was only 41 and in good general health and Coronavirus had still taken him to the brink.
Said Richard:
“We were led to believe it wouldn’t strike at people of our age group.”
Said Shez, who was in a coma for two weeks in Pinderfields Hospital at Wakefield:
“Thousands of people who were in a similar situation to me didn’t make it. I can’t thank the doctors and nurses at Pinderfields enough for keeping me down here.”
He also had special praise and thanks for the Rugby League family —– all those people across the sport’s heartlands, especially in Oldham and his home region of Dewsbury and Batley, for their amazing support.
“It’s all been really humbling,” he added.
Shez also appears on this week’s OuRLeague podcast.
