A Florida father contracted his son’s COVID-19, who ignored his stepmother’s wishes to stay home to avoid contracting the deadly virus, leaving him hospitalized for nearly three weeks.
Plantation’s Michelle Zymet told WSVN that her unidentified 21-year-old stepson ignored his wishes not to attend large gatherings last month and went to a friend’s house.
“I begged him every time he left the house: ‘Please wear your mask, take disinfectant, make sure to wash your hands constantly,'” Zymet told the station. “She always assured me: ‘Don’t worry, mom. I’m doing everything right, relax, relax. You know what these kids are like, so I trusted him. “
Zymet’s stepson wore the mask while he was at his friend’s house, but he took it off at some point, he said.
The decision eventually led four relatives, including the couple’s 14-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter, to become infected with the coronavirus. Zymet’s husband John Place is a 42-year-old diabetic who, according to doctors, is at increased risk for serious illness because he is also overweight.
“You let your guard down just once, that’s all it takes,” Zymet, also 42, told the station on Tuesday. “You come home and infect the whole house.”
Weeks later, Zymet and the couple’s three children have recovered, but Place remains in an intensive care unit at Westside Regional Medical Center in Plantation, where he had been on a ventilator for two weeks.
Place status improved Thursday and Zymet pulled him out of a fan, he posted on Facebook.
“However, the doctor has told us that we are not yet out of the woods yet and there is always the possibility that you may have to go back to the ventilator or other problems may arise, but this is definitely positive news,” Zymet wrote. .
The place is still “very fragile,” uncomfortable and unable to move, his wife said.
Zymet said the terrifying experience shows that younger Floridians “don’t necessarily” listen to health authorities who fear that the current surge in cases in the state may extend to the most vulnerable residents.
“It could be peer pressure,” Zymet said Thursday. “Maybe they think, ‘None of us is sick. We are fine.’ They don’t understand that many of us are asymptomatic and are positive carriers of this virus. “
With posts
.
