Mayra Ramirez, 28, received a double-lung transplant after COVID-19 caused irreversible damage to her lungs.CHICAGO – Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, 28-year-old Mayra Ramirez was working as a paralegal for an immigration law firm in Chicago. She enjoyed walking her dogs and running 5K races.
What she thought would be a short stay led to a months-long hospitalization in the intensive care unit. Her lungs were so severely damaged that Ramirez was unlikely to survive, even after clearing the virus from her system. In fact, she would spend the next six weeks heavily sedated and on a ventilator and another life-support machine — known as ECMO or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation — which pumped and oxygenated her blood outside of her body.
When they arrived, the doctors told her mother, Nohemi Romero, that there was one last thing they could try. that up to half of COVID patients on ventilators survive the illness and are likely to recover on their own.When Ramirez woke up after the operation, she was disoriented, could barely move her body and couldn’t speak.
“I was actually sort of upset about it, , ‘Who are these strangers and why are their pictures in my room?” Ramirez says. “It was weeks later, actually, that I took a second look and realized, ‘Hey, that’s my grandmother. That’s my mom and my siblings. And that’s me.” But for now, her days are consumed by rehab. Her doctors say it will be at least a year before she can function independently and be active like she once was.She takes more than 17 pills, four times a day, including medicines to prevent her body from rejecting the new lungs. She also takes anxiety meds and antidepressants to help her cope with daily nightmares and panic attacks.
“That type of contact would normally keep people oriented… so that it doesn’t become as traumatic,” Hornig says.
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ILNewsroom Headline an extremely rare case and ignore the overwhelmingly typical one where the person suffers no symptoms at all. NPR, c'mon.
ILNewsroom I got covid-19 4 months ago (March 25th) it keeps coming back. I get fevers for a few days every week. Feels like it's never going away. It's 'mild' as they say but it's persistent. I've never been sick this long. Ever. I wasn't hospitalized but still it's a nasty virus.
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ILNewsroom someone said it is just a hoax.
ILNewsroom For all the people who think this is no worse than a typical flu....
ILNewsroom How does a Covid 19 patient get a lung transplant (because of Covid-19) when people including kids are on a waiting list?
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