Stefanie Minguell, a COVID survivor and second grade teacher in Florida's Broward County, almost died of COVID-19 and is immunocomprised. When she teaches in the classroom, she’s forced to choose between her health and her students.
, who survived a severe case of COVID-19 last spring, shares her story, explains why enforcing masks in schools is so important, and discusses the fraught nature of returning to the office for some essential workers and immunocompromised people.We left school in March of 2020 for spring break and never went back. At the time, I was already sick. I had a cold; I was coughing and wheezing. My mother was also coming down with COVID-like symptoms.
I blacked out within a day or two of getting to the hospital; my oxygen level went below 80 percent and doctors had to put me on a ventilator. I was on a ventilator for 21 days. To this day, my voice isn’t the same—it's still very hoarse and I run out of air quickly. When I woke up, I was paralyzed. When you're on a ventilator for three weeks and you don't move, you lose all muscle mass. All I could do was move my head right to left and lift my fingers. I was able to FaceTime with my family from the hospital using my iPad, but because I couldn't move my arms, a nurse would have to come in and press the"on" button. Through physical therapy, I slowly was able to lift my arms and, eventually, sit up.
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