Nash, 34, of Yorba Linda, California, was not eligible to be vaccinated when she contracted the virus, which led to a months-long hospital stay and potential lifelong"I never thought this would ever happen to her or to us," Ryan Nash told "." "I'm glad our story is getting out because it's a reminder to people of what the ramifications [of COVID-19] could be. You really just don’t know.
"She doesn’t complain a lot and I think she was just trying to power through this and didn’t realize how bad it was," he said. "I heard her coughing too and just thought it was part of COVID, so it’s hard to know."Jennifer was hospitalized for the virus on March 30 and has not returned home since. The severity of Jennifer's case led her to be transferred from a local hospital to a hospital in Los Angeles for higher level care, according to Nash.
"Being her age and being healthy, they always thought that once the baby came her body would get better because it had been trying to work for two people," said Nash. "On May 1, they called me and said that Jen’s blood pressure was dropping and they thought they’d have to take the baby sooner than they wanted to do."Two days later, on May 3, doctors delivered the Nashes' daughter, Presley, who was born at 29 weeks.
"Jen was kind of coming out of sedation and she had all her tubes in and wasn’t talking at that time either," said Nash. "The team said they thought it was important to get Presley there to see her mom for motivation."Describing the moment that Jennifer met Presley for the first time, Nash added, "It was the most emotional moment of my life. It was a moment we at some points didn’t think we were going to see.
Jennifer is now in physical therapy, relearning how to walk and talk. Doctors still do not know what kind of long-term complications she'll have from COVID-19, including the possibility of needing to be on oxygen for the rest of her life, according to Nash.
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