Doctor Maged Tanios is reflected in the face shield of Intensive Care Unit Nurse Merlin Pambuan, after Pambuan walked out of the hospital where she spent 8 months with the coronavirus disease in Long BeachIntensive Care Unit Nurse Merlin Pambuan, is cheered by hospital staff as she walks out of the hospital where she spent 8 months with the coronavirus disease , at Dignity Health in Long BeachIntensive Care Unit Nurse Merlin Pambuan, is hugged by hospital staff as she walks out of the hospital...
By the time she awoke and could breathe on her own again, she was too weak to stand. But she fought back and struggled through weeks of painful therapy to regain her strength and mobility, celebrating her 66th birthday in St. Mary's acute rehabilitation ward in late October. The spectacle of Pambuan striding slowly but confidently through the hospital lobby - she had insisted on making her exit without assistance of a wheelchair or walker, although was still connected to supplementary oxygen - marked a transformative victory for the diminutive but tough ICU nurse.
Pambuan said she has no recollection of the four months she spent hooked to a breathing machine - from early May to early September - but recalls first waking up from deep sedation unable to move her extremities.
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