COVID-19, other health scares can’t keep hospital volunteer from wanting to help patients again
Updated Feb 14, 2021;
Posted Feb 14, 2021
Bobbie Patton, 56, gets some love from Mary Free Bed staff. Patton said he hopes to be able to return to the rehabilitation hospital as a volunteer. (Contributed photo from Mary Free Bed)
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It felt eerily familiar to have a tracheostomy tube down his throat.
Despite an 11-day fight in the intensive care unit battling COVID-19 and pneumonia, Patton wants nothing more than to regain his strength and get back to the hospital as a volunteer rather than a patient.