The longest surviving intubated Covid patient has died after being on a ventilator for 850 days.
"After 850 days on the ventilator, Mr. Lewitinn died of a heart attack on July 23 at Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen, N.J. He was 76. His son Albert confirmed the death."
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This is a cautionary tale of how modern medicine can entrap one into a situation where one is literally left on a machine, unable to die or live.
It's really no way to live. I wonder if the doctors ever told the family that he would never get better. Our medical resources get sapped by such cases.
Sigh... although younger than this man, I have taken the burden from my son to let me go and not make me fight ... DNR. It was an easy decision for me, and I hope it will make it easier on him . (My blood pressure shot to 175 with this bout of COVID so less then stellar health shapes my view...YVMV)