Metro Detroit father hospitalized for 6 months due to COVID reunites with his young daughter
Mike Purdy has spent most of the last six months hospitalized and unconscious
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GROSSE POINTE, Mich. – To say it’s been a long hard road for Mike Purdy would be an understatement, the Grosse Pointe father has been in the hospital battling COVID since November of 2020.
“He started with pretty mild symptoms and then they progressed over about a week and he ended up in the hospital,” said Mike’s wife, Judy. “He progressively got worse and worse, and that’s when he ended up being intubated and on a ventilator, and then eventually on something called ECMO, which is a lung bypass machine, and he was on that actually for 101 days.”
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CHICAGO At 43, Leo Castillo was loving life, an active and healthy father and husband with a sense of humor.
In the spring of 2020, COVID-19 ripped through his household. By May, Castillo wound up in the hospital and was put on a ventilator.
Though free of COVID, the virus essentially destroyed his lungs. The organs simply couldn t recover.
A rare and risky double lung transplant turned out to be his only hope for survival. Transplant should always be the option of last resort, said Dr. Ankit Bharat, a thoracic surgeon at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
Bharat was the first surgeon to perform a double lung transplant on a coronavirus patient in the U.S. Before, only a few other COVID-19 survivors, in China and Europe, have received lung transplants.