Learning to live again: A Lazarus tale from the Covid front lines
The twinkle in his eyes, the delight in his smile, the joyous way he moved his disease-withered frame. They all proclaimed a single, resounding message: Grateful to be alive! As my care team and my family tell me, You were born again. You have to learn to live again, said Vicente Perez Castro. I went through a very difficult time.
Hell and back is more like it.
Perez, a 57-year-old cook from Long Beach, California, could barely breathe when he was admitted on June 5 to Los Angeles County s Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He tested positive for Covid-19 and spent three months in the intensive care unit, almost all of it hooked up to a ventilator with a tube down his throat. A different tube conducted nutrients into his stomach.
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By Bernard J. Wolfson | California Healthline
The twinkle in his eyes, the delight in his smile, the joyous way he moved his disease-withered frame. They all proclaimed a single, resounding message: Grateful to be alive! As my care team and my family tell me, You were born again. You have to learn to live again, said Vicente Perez Castro. I went through a very difficult time.
Hell and back is more like it.
Perez, a 57-year-old cook from Long Beach, California, could barely breathe when he was admitted on June 5 to Los Angeles County s Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He tested positive for covid-19 and spent three months in the intensive care unit, almost all of it hooked up to a ventilator with a tube down his throat. A different tube conducted nutrients into his stomach.