out of your mind? what can you think was going to happen? >> because you don't know. you don't know what's happening. afterwards. i thought i'd come right out of it andide be okay. now all of a sudden, i couldn't move my hands. i couldn't feed myself. >> reporter: in the past week, montana averagedly about 108 qoft patients in hospital i.c.u.s, breaking the record seen during the winter of 2020. have you reached your-- your breaking point yet? >> you have good days. you have bad days. i have days i have to call my college buddies and say, "hey, man it's been a bad day. we lost a tough patient last night." and they're great about coming out and saying, "hey, what can we do?" >> reporter: the patient frank we spoke to here regrets not getting the vaccine and plans to do so. he still has a long road ahead of himself, including rehab, to learn how to walk again and to feed himself. norah. >> o'donnell: and this has put so much on our healthcare providers and doctors.