Parole officer released from hospital after battling COVID-19 for nearly 6 months
Re Chelle Turner, KPRC
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CYPRESS, Texas – After battling the coronavirus for nearly six months, a man headed home from the hospital Wednesday.
Lafayette Johnson, a parole officer and retired Army sergeant, said it’s a moment he and his family will never forget.
Friends, family and coworkers cheered on Lafayette as he left the Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Cypress.
Johnson is considered an essential worker and he was worried about going to work at first because of COVID-19. He said he got it after his boss tested positive.
Houston man has to learn to walk again after contracting COVID-19
After being bedridden for 5 months due to coronavirusLafayette Johnson has to learn to walk again.
HOUSTON - Wednesday FOX 26 spoke to a COVID-19 patient, who his doctors say is lucky to be alive.
Lafayette Johnson s lungs and kidneys collapsed because of the virus, which left him bedridden for five months and now he s learning how to walk again.
“It was like a 50/50 chance of me waking up. Like she said I died twice and they brought me back,” said Lafayette Johnson.
Julie Hoff, Director of Critical Care at HCA Houston Healthcare North Cypress, says he is extremely critical, as critical as they come, and that he is blessed to be with us still.