Tag: COVID-19 survivor

  • ‘And that’s when it happened!’

    ‘And that’s when it happened!’

    I was caught off guard when I got the call that my friend Paul Phomsouvanh was in the hospital with COVID-19 last fall. At that time, the new more contagious Delta variant had recently arrived. Cases were on the increase, so I shouldn’t have been surprised. I had seen Paul bounce back quickly from serious…

  • To death’s door and back

    To death’s door and back

    Vic Winter was admitted to hospital in Leamington on March 20. In short order his wife Marilyn was sent home while he was sent to the intensive-care unit at the Windsor Regional Hospital, where he was diagnosed with COVID-19 and placed unconscious on a ventilator to help him breathe as he fought for his life.…