36-year-old COVID-19 survivor wakes from a coma with message for others
A North Carolina man who struggled with COVID-19 for more than two months is making a miraculous recovery.
Steve Rose started out feeling like he just had a cold, but he ended up in a coma and on life support. He was put into a medically-induced coma before Thanksgiving, and he just woke up a couple of weeks ago.
"Last conversation I remember was talking about Thanksgiving dinner. I was looking forward to it," Rose told WRAL-TV.
Doctors placed him on an ECMO machine twice, which supplies oxygen directly to a patient's blood when a ventilator isn't enough.
While he's come far, he still has a long road to recovery.
He never got vaccinated and regrets that now.
"Almost selfish to not get the vaccine," he said.
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