OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – A cautionary story from an Oklahoma Metropolis lady whose husband didn’t get the COVID-19 vaccine.
As of Wednesday, her husband spent his ninth day within the hospital in a medically induced coma on a ventilator.
Elizabeth Satter stated her husband, Cheyne Satter, went from being a wonderfully wholesome 27-year-old to being debilitated by COVID and additional issues of pneumonia.
She hopes sharing their battle will persuade all those that aren’t vaccinated to lastly get their photographs.
“My husband is 27-years-old and in any other case wholesome,” she stated. “He had no pre-existing circumstances, no something, and COVID took him down. The vaccine will not be going to cease COVID. You possibly can’t cease COVID, however it will assist so far as getting hospitalizations down.”
Elizabeth defined there was no convincing Cheyne to get the vaccine earlier than this.
“He did not belief it,” she stated. “He was like, ‘It was made in a yr. I would not need one thing made that quickly. I would like extra analysis and I would like extra stuff completed on it to see the way it impacts folks earlier than I belief it.'”
On July 9, Cheyne began to immediately really feel exhaustion and dehydration.
On July 13, he was taken to the emergency room with a 104.8 diploma fever. He was recognized with COVID-19 and pneumonia in each lungs, medical doctors saying the pneumonia was attributable to COVID. He was prescribed drugs and launched.
On July 15, Cheyne and Elizabeth went again to the E.R. as he continued to battle. He was given fluids for dehydration.
At 4 a.m. on July 17, his battle to breathe had turn out to be so intense that Elizabeth referred to as EMSA for an ambulance.
“He could not even stroll from the bed room to the sofa, a lot much less from the bed room to the automotive to go to the hospital,” she stated.
After a number of days of therapy not working as successfully as desired, medical doctors put Cheyne on a ventilator and medically induced him right into a coma. He is been in that state since July 20.
Elizabeth has been sharing updates of the hospital keep on social media as she and her household battle with the uncertainty.
“This has affected extra than simply me and Cheyne and his household,” she stated. “It’s affected my household. It is affected associates. It’s affected our jobs. It’s had a monetary toll and a psychological toll. The emotional instability is the worst factor, and I might by no means want that upon anyone.”
She stated previous to the coma, her husband expressed remorse about his resolution to not get the coronavirus vaccine.
“He informed his mother, ‘As soon as I recover from this, I am working to go get my shot as a result of I do not ever wish to really feel like this once more,'” she stated.
Elizabeth is begging folks to get vaccinated, for his or her sake and everybody round them.
“I simply really feel like above all else, above all of the B.S. that’s working round, towards all of the false statements and powerful opinions. Simply do your self a favor, do your loved ones a favor, do your mates a favor. Simply go get your shot. Individuals ought to know the vaccine is there to assist. COVID is not slowing down and it might occur to you.”
Docs have been hoping to get Cheyne off the ventilator this week, however then Wednesday morning, his pneumonia began getting worse.
They’ve informed Elizabeth he could possibly be within the hospital for 3 to 6 months.
