LINDA Lusardi today proved she is well and truly on the mend from her coronavirus battle as she stripped down to a bikini to paint her garden fence.
The veteran Page 3 pin-up, 61, has been recovering at home after spending ten days in hospital.
Linda has kept fans up-to-date with her fight against the deadly infection.
But today proved she is happy and healthy again as she did a spot of DIY in her swimmers.
Taking to Instagram she posted the sexy snap, writing next to it: “
Bit of fence painting in the sun. Glorious day #diy #sunshine #fencepainting.”
Linda has been very open about catching Covid-19 along with her husband Sam Kane.
She said the days leading up to their hospital admission saw them left in despair.
Speaking to The Sun she said: “It got to the stage where both of us were praying we wouldn’t wake up because it was so bad.”
Showbiz agent and actor Sam, 51, added: “We just looked at each other and said, ‘Look, we can’t take this anymore’.
“It was horrific. It was like the devil’s hands were strangling me and holding me down and laughing in my face. It’s the deepest, darkest place we’ve ever been.
“We just thought that if we don’t wake up, it’s not the end of the world.”
Sam believes he contracted the virus first, during a business meeting before strict social distancing measures came in.
He passed it on to Linda while she was caring for him.
Linda said: “I started to get a fever, feeling rough and carried on, but it got worse and worse.
“Your head hurts, your brain hurts and you feel like an elephant is sitting on you.
“I remember crawling to the bathroom putting my face on the tile floor, and then almost trying to make myself sick just to get a light relief for five minutes afterwards.
“I was leaning over the edge of the bed coughing and spitting into a bucket. Your vomit is blue.”
Sam and Linda’s son Jack, 20, called 999 and the couple were hooked up to oxygen and taken to hospital in the same ambulance.
The couple were taken to North Middlesex hospital where Sam tested positive for coronavirus.
Linda’s results were initially negative, but tests showed she had “zero oxygen” in her blood, which was also “full of infection”, and pneumonia.
She was also experiencing chronic chest pains.
The following day she also tested positive for Covid-19.
Three days later, Sam was improving but Linda’s condition had worsened and she was given a grim update by a doctor.
Linda added: “I said to him, ‘Am I going to make this?’ and he said, ‘You’re 61, I can’t guarantee anything. We don’t know what we’re dealing with here’.
“To hear that was just dreadful and I just burst into tears.
“I text Sam and they wheeled him up to me.”
Sam said: “I got a message saying, ‘I don’t know if I’m ever going to be able to talk to you again’ and I just fell apart.
“I was screaming because I thought I was going to lose her.
“They had to give me an injection to calm me down. But they managed to get me up there to see Linda.”
The reunion seemed to spark an upturn in Linda’s health and she was soon released from hospital after 10 days.
Linda is also now back at her North London home and has been humbled by the outpouring of support, particularly on social media.
But she still experiences breathlessness and tiredness. And she finds it hard to understand those who are still ignoring social distancing rules.
She said: “I know young people don’t get it terribly but they can go out and pass it on to an old person and it kills them. They’re a walking time bomb.”
And she wants NHS heroes to be properly rewarded for their efforts.
She added: “I hope in the future we appreciate them and pay them better salaries and train more people up because they are our lifeline to survival. They saved both of our lives.”
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