Learning to live again: A Lazarus tale from the Covid front lines
The twinkle in his eyes, the delight in his smile, the joyous way he moved his disease-withered frame. They all proclaimed a single, resounding message: Grateful to be alive! As my care team and my family tell me, You were born again. You have to learn to live again, said Vicente Perez Castro. I went through a very difficult time.
Hell and back is more like it.
Perez, a 57-year-old cook from Long Beach, California, could barely breathe when he was admitted on June 5 to Los Angeles County s Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He tested positive for Covid-19 and spent three months in the intensive care unit, almost all of it hooked up to a ventilator with a tube down his throat. A different tube conducted nutrients into his stomach.
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By Bernard J. Wolfson | California Healthline
The twinkle in his eyes, the delight in his smile, the joyous way he moved his disease-withered frame. They all proclaimed a single, resounding message: Grateful to be alive! As my care team and my family tell me, You were born again. You have to learn to live again, said Vicente Perez Castro. I went through a very difficult time.
Hell and back is more like it.
Perez, a 57-year-old cook from Long Beach, California, could barely breathe when he was admitted on June 5 to Los Angeles County s Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He tested positive for covid-19 and spent three months in the intensive care unit, almost all of it hooked up to a ventilator with a tube down his throat. A different tube conducted nutrients into his stomach.
SunStar
File photo February 25, 2021 A HIGH-RANKING official of the Francisco Bangoy International Airport (Davao International Airport) Monitoring Team announced that it will be accepting Covid-19 test results from saliva tests of passengers coming to Davao City, but it must be coming from the Philippine Red Cross (PRC).
Airport Monitoring Team Head Generose Tecson told SunStar Davao on Thursday morning, February 25, that PRC is currently the only testing facility that has been accredited to conduct saliva tests to detect Covid-19 patients. That s why we don t accept any other saliva test, except from PRC, because it s not as simple as spitting, Tecson said in a phone interview.