CELINA, Ohio (AP)– A Celina lady identified with COVID-19 does not know she brought to life a child young boy last week. On Tuesday night, Megan Sites stayed sedated and on a ventilator.
As the coronavirus spread, Shaun Jeffries and his wife Kacie worried about their moms and dads and grandparents, not individuals their own age. Shaun’s sister Megan was healthy, a non-smoker, and a nurse.
She was likewise pregnant. Her child is doing well, however she’s still fighting for her life.
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Kacie states, “She does not know that she had her child, and her child was provided at 29 weeks.”
Megan’s signs began slow: a cold and a fever, pains and discomforts, and what seemed like a sinus infection or cold. Given that she was seven months pregnant, she was checked for the coronavirus.
Shaun Jeffries states in simply “24 hours’ time, the way it advanced, it was mean. That’s the only way to put it: it was a mean virus.”
Megan worked as a nurse. Shaun states she understood what she was up against as she went to the health center. “She was weeping to my mom, saying she doesn’t want to pass away. That best there tells you she knew enough and what she was going through.”
However her condition quickly aggravated in the health center. Kacie states, “Her lungs were just failing. In order to conserve her and her infant, they needed to do an emergency C-section.”
Megan was sedated, then put on what’s called an ECMO maker. The extracorporeal membrane oxygenation device does the work of the heart and lungs, oxygenating the blood by pumping it out of the body, through a synthetic lung, then back in. Shaun states, “Already they’re stating that’s the last thing. That’s the last thing we can attempt and do.”
Megan improved a little. She’s now on a ventilator. The infant was evaluated two times for coronavirus and was unfavorable each time. He’s now in the NICU. Megan’s hubby Donny finally held the infant 3 days after it was born, but the household can’t see her in the health center, or visit each other to cope together.
Kacie states, “Never in a million years would we have believed our 27- year-old sibling would be contaminated with this infection and practically lose her life. Individuals have actually got to take this seriously.”
Megan and Donny’s kid still hasn’t been provided a name as they wait and wish for Megan’s recovery. Shaun states Megan’s daughter requests for mommy a lot today, however is having a good time with her daddy.
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