A woman who was admitted to a hospital in the southern state of Georgia to be treated for coronavirus and then passed 40 days in a coma with respiratory assistance and suffered a stroke, woke up from her serious condition just one day before the date that the doctors were to disconnect her.
The event, which the hospital itself defines as “a miracle”, occurred at the end of October, and the patient, notably recovered, left the medical center last 31 of December, to the joy of his relatives and hospital employees, who recorded his departure in a video that went viral.
The medical history of Lisa Martin, which is the name of this unique patient, began on 27 September 2020, when he arrived at the emergency room at Memorial Satilla Hospital, in a small town in the state of Georgia .
Then, diag him They were diagnosed with coronavirus and she had to be hospitalized. Her condition became complicated and she was almost immediately connected to a respirator. Later, she was taken into an induced coma, where she suffered a cerebral infarction of the frontal lobe.
The official Facebook page of Memorial Satilla Hospital reported that Martin was 59 days on a respirator and 40 days in a coma. When the doctors decided that there was nothing more to do, they met with Jeff, the woman’s husband, and the rest of their family, and agreed that in 11 days would take off her respirator to let her go.
Waking up and her recovery
But just the day that the disconnection was to take place, Jeff noticed that his wife’s eyes began to look at him and followed him around the room. Martin could also move his hand. From that inexplicable moment, the woman began to recover.
“I had to re-learn to walk, speak, swallow, eat”, said in an interview to the American media First Coast News.
After his awakening, The patient was transferred to two other hospitals in the area and returned to Memorial Satilla again on 14 December to have her last days before being discharged and returning home to her husband and four 4.
The images from the hospital exit show a woman walking slowly, supported by a walker , but whole and happy, while appreciating the applause of those present in the place. Then, she gets in the car and waves to the person who is recording her and to all those who fire her.
“New Year’s Eve is even more important this year for the miracle patient “, they wrote on the Facebook account of the aforementioned health center.
” I have to use oxygen the 24 hours and walking with a walker or wheelchair for long distances, but the doctors believe that I should recover completely ”, Lisa Martin told the aforementioned American media.
The woman also stressed that she has almost no memory in her memory of much of the process she went through from when she started with the symptoms of coronavirus until she left the hospital. “It was almost three and a half months of my life, but it is a kind of amnesia. I don’t remember, ”he said.
Martin’s family, meanwhile, cannot find an explanation for the way the woman recovered, and they take the event as a true miracle.
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