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Doctor recounts 3-month battle with COVID-19 as he heads home for Christmas

Doctor recounts 3-month battle with COVID-19 as he heads home for Christmas Updated Dec 24, 2020; GRAND RAPIDS, MI A doctor who had been on the frontlines fighting the COVID-19 pandemic since March, was himself fighting for his own life the past three months. In late September, 47-year-old Mercy Health’s Dr. Channing Finkbeiner quarantined himself at home with COVID-19 symptoms until Oct. 9, when was admitted to Mercy Health St. Mary’s campus. There, he was in the intensive care unit for 47 days. During that time, he spent 37 days on a ventilator fighting for his life. After the fifth day on the ventilator, things got so bad that palliative care was called so his family could visit with him one last time.

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