HENRYETTA, Okla. (KFOR) – A Henryetta lady is preventing for her life after contracting the Delta variant.
69-year-old Jeanne Gang went to the hospital a few week a in the past in Okmulgee.
Her daughters, Kassidy and Kimberly Kern, say her signs began flu-like when she was first identified, however took a flip final week.
“My mom took really fairly a essential and extreme flip for the more severe,” Kassidy mentioned.
Jeanne needed to be intubated and held within the ER as a result of there have been no ICU beds.
“Figuring out that your mother is sitting intubated in an ER and there are not any rooms available, it is actually scary,” Kimberly mentioned.
Hospital workers looked for days throughout 4 states for an ICU mattress. Jeanne was lastly flown to a hospital in Tahlequah Friday.
“It is laborious on our household,” Kimberly mentioned.
“[The virus] simply began to place this gunk in her lungs after which it began to solidify. After we’ve been speaking to the medical doctors at this time, one of many causes she so essential is that they’re having to pump her lungs via this ventilator with a lot air to primarily pry them open as a result of COVID has cemented them closed,” Kassidy mentioned.
Kassidy says it was tough when the physician requested about superior directive.
“That’s by no means a dialog you are prepared for with regards to you,” she mentioned. “These are completely coronary heart breaking issues to need to be confronted with.”
“You must be trustworthy to your self in regards to the outcomes, the attainable outcomes, we pray for power, however we additionally notice this virus is lethal. So we pray. Pray as a substitute of fear,” Kimberly mentioned.
The sisters say the virus can have an effect on anybody.
“That is undoubtedly not one thing we might’ve ever anticipated to occur and positively she did not both as somebody who selected to not get vaccinated and but right here we’re,” Kassidy mentioned. “When it comes, you hope to God you are ready for it, and I can guarantee you, as somebody who has been via it twice, after my dad acquired extreme COVID, you aren’t ready for it anytime.”
They are saying they hope individuals will take steps to guard themselves, like masking and social distancing.
“Positively encourage individuals to get that vaccination if they will, and if they can not, have these minimal precautions in place,” Kassidy mentioned.
Kimberly says sports activities season generally is a motivating issue to take precautions.
“We have to knuckle down and guarantee that we that we are able to have a sports activities season. It is time for us to placed on our masks. It is time for us to take motion,” she mentioned.
The sisters say Jeanne has been a horse coach virtually her complete life.
“Horses and her husband Donnie actually are her life proper now, and he or she’s fully devoted to each and we would like that to take care of on the opposite facet of this horrible journey after she will get over this and strikes on,” Kassidy mentioned.
“I realized about laborious work from her. I realized about consideration to element from her. I realized about charity from my mother,” Kimberly mentioned.
Kassidy remembers one thing Jeanne would say to her college students: in case you simply enhance one p.c day-after-day, then you definitely’ll be one hundred pc higher in 100 days.
“If anybody can add my mother to her prayer record, we’re simply on the lookout for that one p.c for my mother in order that day-after-day she will get just a little bit higher,” she mentioned.
The Kerns say their father and stepfather have additionally gotten COVID, however have recovered.
