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Award-winning nurse Dorothea Low, 67, will serve her final day in the role later this month, having started as a junior nurse at the city’s general hospital, now Sunderland Royal, in 1969 after leaving Broadway school.
This will end with one of his most difficult tasks, staying in his paintings for the Wearsiders through the coronavirus pandemic as he runs in his community.
After her training, which began in 1971 at Monkwearmouth College, she became a qualified nurse and spent time learning on the premises before moving to Leeds to work as a midfeed.
She had a task in Texas when she discovered her father was suffering from cancer and returned to Sunderland, then spent time running for a nursing agency, which took her to a boarding school and commercial infirmary, and then went to orthopedic theaters as a sister.
After marrying Alan, now 66, she made the decision to satisfy the dream of running and implementing herself for a task in the Middle East with British forces, proceeding to paint in the same box in Oman as an officer.
She said, “It’s a wonderful experience, living in another culture and we met many other attractive and dynamic people and stayed in touch with them over the years. “
When she became pregnant with her now-32-year-old son Graham returned to Wearside and also had another child, Adam, now 27, the couple prepared grandparents while welcoming Graham’s sons Max, eight, and Jessica, six.
Since her children were young, she has worked in the community, first in Pallion, helped organize night service and then on the home recovery team, most recently with South Tyneside Base and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust on Leechmere Industrial Property.
He has been in lifestyles for 14 years and works with patients to help them manage their outdoor ailments in a hospital ward.
“I intended to retire in June, it was my 50th birthday, but I re-registered when the coronavirus arrived and felt I would have escaped,” said Dorothea, who won the Community Nurse of the Year award at Echo’s Best of Health Awards in 2018.
“I talked to Graham, Adam and my husband first, but as a nurse, I think that’s what I had to do.
“It’s been complicated and I hope we never see a pandemic like this again.
“I have received many reports over the past 50 years and it has been a rewarding and rewarding journey.
“If I could, I would do it again and if you like to paint hard, because it’s a difficult task, then it’s a wonderful career. “
Dorothea hopes to hold a birthday party to commemorate her retirement once others can meet safely.