A dad who spent almost a week on a ventilator battling COVID-19 says while the machine saved his life, it also left him with serious and lasting damage. coronavirus
My oxygen levels were dropping and someone, I forget who, came into my room and said: ‘We’re going to have to put you on a ventilator, on a machine that’s going to breathe for you because you can't breathe on your own’.” Mr Lat recalled. “Lawyer David Lat with husband Zachary and their two-year-old son, says his life will never be the same after six hellish days on a ventilator.
“A few days earlier, after my admission to the hospital, my physician father had warned me: ‘You better not get put on a ventilator. People don’t come back from that’,” he wroteThe statistics for ventilated patients with COVID-19 in the US are not encouraging, with a survival rate of only around 50 percent. The figures are worse for New York, where almost 6000 people have died from the disease — including 80 percent of those who ended up on a ventilator.
“As the nurses prepared me for the intubation, I thought to myself: It’s not my time to die,” Mr Lat wrote in The“My husband and I have a two-year-old son. I want to see him graduate from high school, graduate from college. If he gets married or has kids of his own someday, I want to be there. I started praying the Hail Mary, over and over.Mr Lat said his memory of being intubated is hazy.
“I spent the next six days basically asleep, under sedation, the ventilator serving as my lungs,” he said. “I remember nothing from this period. I have since learned that some patients have nightmares or hallucinations while on ventilators, so I view myself as very fortunate.
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