“Early on, it is tough. But when I look at the result, I’m telling everyone: Go for it.”
Hilary Sledge-Sarnor along with her family spent the month of March incredibly ill.ALKEN, Belgium -- Sucking in the little oxygen her lungs could still process, Diane Wanten wouldn't back down in her fight against a disease that is killing tens of thousands a week around the globe. Too much was still waiting for her.
She eventually beat COVID-19 after three weeks of hospitalization, including 16 days in the ICU. She has been reunited with husband, Francesco, and is recovering in her son’s home. There is no embrace yet, since the 61-year-old Wanten is largely quarantined in her room and keeping at arm’s length from her husband, who doesn't quite fathom what is happening. The eye contact alone, though, is worth it.
She went for a checkup on April 3, and by the time she got to Jessa hospital in the city of Hasselt, “I couldn't tell the doctor anything because I couldn’t breathe.” The doctor only had one option, she said. “Straight to the emergency ward.” “He always said: ‘The day you’re no longer there, I want to be gone, too.’ I said to myself: ‘I got to pull through because I really don’t want both of us to die.’”
“I was dizzy, couldn't find my balance and my breath was fading,” she said. At first, just standing up was an effort, proof what the virus had done to her lungs. Words were staggered with gasps.“They need a few months of rehabilitation because they are very weak. Their muscles are gone. And that’s more than the other diseases,” said Dr. Luc Jamaer of Jessa hospital.
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