The saying ‘love knows no bounds’ was true for one South Carolina couple after a 43-year-old man who contracted the coronavirus and was subsequently hospitalized for two months said his wife’s voice told him through’ a coma helped.
In July, Don Gillmer tested positive for COVID-19. A few days after the positive test result, he was admitted to hospital – and remained there for more than 60 days.
Gillmer told local news station WYFF that he had received recovery procedures twice during his hospital stay, as well as the antiviral inhibitor, which is effective in reducing the time to recovery for COVID-19 patients admitted to the hospital.
But according to Gillmer, “nothing worked.”
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“Nothing helped me recover, so I really will never forget when they came in papers I had to sign to go on a ventilator. It scared me,” he recalls.
Eventually, when Gillmer’s temperature did not improve – it reached 104 degrees at one point – doctors placed him in a medically induced coma.
The man claims that his wife’s words of encouragement helped him carry it through.
“I just told him he’s fine, that they take good care of him. He was in incredible hands,” Lacy Gillmer, Don Gilmer’s wife, told the news station.
Gillmer eventually wakes up and is discharged from the hospital on September 11 – just over two months after he was first admitted.
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“I swear I heard her, [I] swear i heard her voice and when she left [the hospital], I was stable. She is my angel. She’s the reason I’m here, ” he said.
The man in South Carolina said he needed physical therapy after his battle with COVID-19 and said he needed to learn to walk again. After his dismissal, Gillmer said he still needed physical therapy twice a week in his ongoing path to full recovery.
“I often tell her I could not have been as strong as she was,” he said of his wife.
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Gillmer spoke more broadly and encouraged others to remain zealous.
“We need to be smart and diligent and take care of each other. It’s about your fellow man,” he said.