“I was just weak. I couldn t get out of bed,” he said.
The Orange County man spent two weeks on a respirator, but he also suffered from kidney issues and pneumonia.
“They called my lady, to let her know I have a fifty percent chance of living and let her come to the hospital to see me just in case I didn t make it,” he said.
Hampton fought hard, battling an infection in his feet that eventually cost him his right leg.
“I just told them pretty much, I m ready for the amputation because I was ready to get back home to my kids and my lady,” he stated.
DOWNEY, Calif. (KABC) Downey resident Andrew Pasillas weighed more than 400 pounds when he went to the emergency room in December because he had trouble breathing. That s when the 29-year-old found out he was a type 2 diabetic and had COVID-19. The biggest turning point of my life happened when I was in the hospital, said Pasillas. And I actually thought that it was going to be the last day of my life because I didn t take care of myself.
That turning point was the start of Pasillas weight loss journey.
But Pasillas is no stranger to fitness, in his early 20s Pasillas said he worked out often and was a sales manager at a gym.
Boxer Maurice Termite Watkins reflects on surviving COVID-19
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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) A Houston boxing legend and his wife have been fighting the fight of their lives for the past 12 months.
Maurice Watkins, better known as Termite, a former professional boxer and Houston legend, contracted COVID-19 a year ago. It s hard to believe it s been a whole year, his wife Cindy said. It s been a whole year, but I remember all the details still. It was the fight of his life and it was the fight of my life to pray him through it.
Watkins was in the hospital for a month. He said he remembers calling his wife from the hospital to tell her he was about to go on a ventilator.