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I would see the tubes there at my bedside and wondered if I would need to be intubated, and if so, would I ever go home again?
I always looked at these videos and thought, that'll never be me. And, it's me.
I tell everyone: 'get vaccinated,' so they won't go through what my family has gone through.
I went into a kind of panic because it was so hard just to get my breath.
I was so scared.
My body just felt horrible
…from getting off the school bus to the hospital in a coma.
She was crying but there were no tears because she was so dehydrated.
I sat down on the bed and I cried because I just had zero control over what was happening to London.
I never want my grandchildren to see what I saw.
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