Randy Smith of Apple Paul Valley was one of 10 members of the family who contracted the novel coronavirus in the backyard of Fontana – and it was so close that his wife was told by doctors to say goodbye.
Now Smith is going home after three months in hospital.
“Thank God,” he said. “It was life and death, and I made it to this side.”
There has been a long way to go here. Smith had several problems when he was diagnosed in June.
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He said, ‘I had collapsed lungs, pneumonia. “I had a stroke.”
Dr. Nicole Hanrah, medical director of Encompas Health Rehab Hospital in Murrita, added that Smith “also developed acute respiratory failure, he needed the help of two chest tubes and a tracheostomy to breathe.”
He had to be taught how to walk, talk and eat.
When the situation was at its worst, the family believed that prayer saved his life.
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“God performed a miracle and healed me overnight,” Smith said.
Now, he and his family who survived, four of whom have been hospitalized, are urging others to follow in his footsteps.
“Wearing a mask is not a joke,” Riley McGuinn, one of 10 family members who contracted coronavirus at the barbecue. “People say, ‘I’m not going to wear my mask, it’s just that I don’t take COVD.’ It’s no joke. You can die from this. “People are dying from it.”
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