Utah ICU nurse returns home after surviving double lung transplant
For the first time since December, a Utah intensive care unit nurse is back home in Utah.
and last updated 2021-04-23 19:51:44-04
For the first time since December, a Utah intensive care unit nurse is back home in Utah.
Jill Holker has been recovering from a double lung transplant in Florida â her lungs were damaged after she contracted COVID-19.
âIt was super weird to be slowly being knocked down,â said Holker.
On Halloween, Holker was running when she realized she couldnât breathe. You hear the cases and you see the people and itâs like, Thatâs not me, she said.
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SPANISH FORK A Utah ICU nurse has arrived home after nearly six months away from her family while she first battled COVID-19, and then recovered from a double lung transplant. It s good to be home, said Jill Holker.
She was greeted Friday by a cheering crowd of about two dozen family, friends and co-workers on the tarmac of the Spanish Fork Airport.
Holker cared for sick COVID-19 patients at the beginning of the pandemic in the ICU at Utah Valley Hospital and then became a patient herself. She said she was at peak physical fitness before becoming ill.
From Too Risky to Last Resort, COVID-Related Organ Transplants Are Surging
Mark Buchanan from Roopville, GA didn’t think he was going to survive the COVID-19 pandemic. He and his entire family came down with a nasty bout of the disease, but no one wound up in the hospital except him. He was on a ventilator, sedated for nearly three months before starting extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), a last-resort effort to save patients dying of the disease.
“They said that it had ruined my lungs,” Buchanan said. “The vent and the covid ruined ’em completely.”
However, his luck changed after becoming one of the first people in the U.S. to receive what’s being referred to as a COVID-related transplant. He received a double lung transplant in October at a time when few hospitals were willing to take a chance on the procedure. Now, these kinds of transplants are soaring all over the country.
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