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Florida nurse returns home after being paralyzed from rare COVID-19-related infection By Erik Waxler | March 2, 2021 at 4:43 PM CST - Updated March 2 at 4:43 PM
LARGO, Fla. (WFTS) - A Florida nurse is back home after a rare infection left him paralyzed.
WFTS reports Desmon Silva returned to Florida after months of battling the infection in a Boston hospital.
“It has been long-awaited and highly anticipated,” Silva said.
Silva was diagnosed with COVID-19 in July, and he was able to recover from the virus and go back to work at Largo Medical Center. He then got a very rare infection that left him paralyzed and on a ventilator.
Local nurse paralyzed by COVID-19-related infection returns home
After months in a Boston hospital, Desmon Silva is ready for sunshine and palm trees again.
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TAMPA, Fla. â After months in a Boston hospital, Desmon Silva is ready for sunshine and palm trees again.
âWell Des, the time is finally here. So how do you feel about going back home to Florida, asked his mother Barbara Bonnet.
âIt has been long-awaited and highly anticipated, he answered.
Desmon was infected with COVID-19 last July. He recovered and even went back to work as a nurse at Largo Medical Center.
PUBLISHED 9:23 PM ET Mar. 01, 2021 PUBLISHED 9:23 PM EST Mar. 01, 2021
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TAMPA, Fla. –
A Largo Medical Center nurse who s been battling the effects of a COVID-19-related illness returned to Tampa Bay Monday after months of treatment out of state.
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Largo Medical Center Nurse Desmon Silva flown home via Jet ICU Monday
Silva was undergoing treatment and rehab for a rare central nervous system disease he developed following a COVID-19 infection It has been long-awaited and highly anticipated, Desmon Silva said in a video provided by his family after being asked how he felt about heading home to Florida.