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'Tis the season of hope - and hard-ass determination to beat the monster.
An ICU nurse survived an eight-month fight with covid-19 that nearly killed her multiple times: ‘Don’t lose hope’
When Merlin Pambuan awoke in September after four months hooked up to a breathing machine that helped keep her alive, the intensive care unit nurse sickened with the novel coronavirus was comforted knowing her life was in the hands of her colleagues, treated at the same hospital she had worked at for 40 years.
But she still could not feel her extremities following a deep sedation that started in May, shortly after she had contracted the virus while treating covid-19 patients at St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, Calif. As first reported by Reuters, the nurse could not remember anything about a period in which she had come close to dying “multiple times,” according to her doctor.
This week, doctors and nurses who have been pushed to their limits in a part of Southern California ravaged by the pandemic received a rare piece of good news: Pambuan had recovered from covid and was leaving after being hospitalized for eight months fighting the virus.
The 66-year-old was met by dozens of cheering, masked co-workers as she walked down the hallway at St. Mary on Monday, an emotional scene on a day her family and physician were uncertain would come.
“I’m thankful,” Pambuan said to Reuters. “This is my second life.” She added: “Don’t lose hope. Just fight.”
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