Louise Dulley , 37, has not only battled the difficulty of the pandemic but the care of her husband as she runs Lou’s Little Cleaning Co Ltd . – a commercial and domestic cleaning service she started in 2014.

“Back in April, my husband went out to see a friend and ended up in an accident,” Louise said. “I was suddenly alerted to it when he returned home, confused, bruised and bleeding after someone found him in the road and woke him up – with no explanation of how it happened.

“We still have no idea what went on and how my husband ended up in that situation.”

Louise soon learned that Phil had a bleed on the brain – and doctors had operated on his skull in order to save his life.

“They said the best-case scenario was that he was going to be in there for months due to the severity of the bleed,” she said. “They weren’t expecting for him to live through the induced coma or the surgery.

“Amazingly, he was in intensive care for two weeks before he was stepped down to HDU, then he was released a week later. The doctors called him Lazarus because they hadn’t seen someone come back from the brink like he had.”

Louise now takes care of Phil at home while running her business, as he still suffers from migraines and has had to learn to talk, walk, eat and drink again.

“I started the business when I was pregnant, so I know how to balance the demands of the business and difficult circumstances in life,” she said. “I knew what I had to do when it came to the care of Phil – the plan was always to prioritise the health of my husband.”

Louise , who has been running her business from home, has expanded her employee base in order to offer high-quality services while she cares for her husband: “I’ve got a friends daughter to help with the cleaning and I plan on taking on a few more to make sure we’re offering as widely as we can.

“This means everything to me, and I’ve got four children to think about, so it was never an option to just go on universal credit and forget about the business.

“Cleaning is like therapy to me – it’s helped me cope with anxiety throughout my life and now it’s a business I use to support my family.”