Having one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine likely helped Jerry Messing survive his grueling experience with COVID-19.
and was waiting for the second. One day he felt so bad, he asked his parents to take him to the hospital. As he was leaving, he collapsed and spent the next 21 days unconscious in the intensive care unit and is now experiencing some paralysis in his right arm and both legs. He’s shared his story to encourage others to get vaccinated.
Jerry Messing was in the ICU for 21 days with COVID-19. He hopes people will get vaccinated after hearing his experience.When he arrived, he was admitted to the ICU where doctors intubated him and put him on a ventilator. For the next 21 days, he was unconscious. He experienced pneumonia and MRSA and a few times his family worried that he wouldn’t survive.
“I said, ‘Can he hear?’ and she goes, ‘Oh yeah, he responds. But he can’t talk,’” Stiles recalled. “I said, ‘Jerry, you need to hang on. Don’t give up.’ And she told me that he nodded.” Messing is in a rehabilitation facility where he undergoes various therapies. Already he’s noticed a slight improvement in the paralysis, which doctors have told them is “COVID-related.”“I can now somewhat move my legs. I can’t lift them or anything, but I can slide them a little,” Messing explained. “My right arm, I can sort of lift up.”
Prior to contracting COVID-19, Messing lost 103 pounds and was hoping to lose more. In the ICU he lost 87 pounds, but some of it is muscle mass from not being able to move. He hopes when he recovers he can focus again on his health habits and lose more weight.
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