Special Encounter:
Four Corona recoverers, who were hospitalized in critical condition, were anesthetized and resuscitated, and it was unclear if they would survive, met once again with the medical staff who treated them and thanked them for rescuing them.
"Tell my husband I may not get out of this, but there is a God"
Canel Frixa 40 years old from Petah Tikva
Kennel, originally from Nepal, is married to an Israeli.
She works in a nursing home and became infected there in Corona from one of the tenants earlier this year.
When she became infected, she was pregnant at week 27. At the beginning of the illness she was in her home in isolation, but due to high fever she was evacuated to Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva.
Dr. Arad with Prixa and her daughter Riff, Joshua Joseph
"I went to the emergency room at the hospital because I had a fever that went up and down," she says.
"I was pregnant and scared. I was hospitalized in the women's ward and then transferred to the maternity ward. After a day my stature started to drop and I had a hard time breathing. I was transferred to the corona ward.
The sturgeon kept going down, and then I was hospitalized in the Corona Intensive Care Unit.
After a few days in the hospital, my condition became very, very difficult.
The doctors told me they were putting me to sleep and connecting me to the Acmo machine.
I was told to talk to my husband.
I talked to him in the evening, and that's the last thing I remember.
After 20 days I woke up.
The day they put me to sleep they decided to give birth to me.
I do not remember the birth. "
After she woke up, Kennel did not remember her husband and did not know that her daughter was born.
The medical staff told her that her daughter was born weighing 880 grams, immediately underwent surgery and is in good condition, and is now in infancy.
After a few more days in the ward, Kennel was released to her home.
"Now I feel fine, but not so much as it was before the disease. My voice is still not one hundred percent, I have a hard time talking and my right leg is weak. There are still problems, but you have to remember that I was in a very, very difficult situation. My husband was told I might not "I will get out of it, but there is a God. I am getting better and there is optimism. It was not easy, but I got out of it. My daughter was in infancy for 100 days and now she is fine. She has grown."
Kennel was not vaccinated before she became infected.
"I was told to get vaccinated at work, but I was afraid because I was pregnant. I'm sorry I did not get vaccinated then. If I had been vaccinated, I would not have gotten into such a situation. Now I have been vaccinated and I tell all pregnant women that they must get vaccinated."
Dr. Tomer Arad, a specialist in intensive care at Beilinson Hospital who met with Kennel, said: “I remember almost all of her hospitalization.
Both the moment she arrived and the time she was released.
We were glad it ended like this, with a happy ending.
There were moments when we were worried and not optimistic, but most importantly today everything is fine and she gave birth to a healthy baby girl.
"Feelings about the fourth wave are mixed. On the one hand, these are patients in a difficult situation, that we are doing everything possible to help them, and that is a sense of responsibility and mission. On the other hand, there is a sense of anger Choose not to do so. "
"I could not walk, and I could not even hold a pen in my hand"
Hagit Cohen 54 years old from Kfar Saba
Hagit, a bank employee, married and a mother of three, contracted corona in late March.
She suffers from a background illness and is being treated by a neurologist.
Cohen with Prof. Singer and Dr. Hellerman. "I know I would not have been without the medical staff," Yehoshua Yosef
"I do not know how I got infected," she says.
"I was home for a few days, and then I started to feel unwell and I got to the hospital."
She arrived at the Corona ward at Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba, where she spent a week.
After two days her condition continued to worsen, and she was transferred to the intensive care unit.
She was later transferred to Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva.
"The situation deteriorated within a few days and they connected me to Acmo," she says.
"For almost a month I was asleep and breathing. After I woke up I was a month in respiratory rehabilitation to get back to breathing on my own, because my lungs were very weak. After that I moved to Levinstein House for a month for rehabilitation because my muscles were very weak too. At first I could not walk and sat in a wheelchair, I could not even hold a pen in my hand to write. "
Hagit became infected even though she was vaccinated twice.
"There is 95% success in vaccines and I am in the statistics of the 5% failure in vaccines. The moral of my case is that even if you are vaccinated - you should continue to be protected. Just because you got a third vaccine does not mean you are protected. There are new strains, you may fall. "In statistics, maybe take another drug that suppresses the antibodies? It is impossible to know. Therefore, even if you are vaccinated, you should continue to be saved."
Hagit was in a very difficult situation and it was not clear if she would survive.
"It could have ended completely differently. I know I would not have been without the medical staff. You feel like they are fighting for everyone, not raising their hands about anyone, even if there seems to be nothing to do anymore."
Dr. Moran Hellerman, a senior intensive care specialist at Beilinson who met with Cohen: “The encounter with Hagit and other patients who have recovered excites me time and time again.
I see them in the extreme situations of their lives, and suddenly seeing them healthy is surprising, joyful and exciting.
Hagit arrived in the previous wave and was considered very young in relation to the dramatic situation she was in.
Today the wards are full of young patients, but once Hagit's age was unusual.
"The current wave is made up almost universally of very young unvaccinated patients, not necessarily with background illnesses. It is frustrating to know that the condition could have been avoided. Go get vaccinated!"
Prof. Pierre Singer, director of the hospital's general intensive care unit, concluded: “It is impressive to see patients stand on their feet and return to a normal life, after a complex and difficult period in which they were literally between life and death.
There is a kind of closing circle for us, but it is also a mixed feeling, because alongside the recovering there are also patients that we were unable to save. "
"At one point there was a rumor that I passed away"
Mahmoud Rabah 45 years old from Jerusalem
Adv. Rabah is a medical miracle. He fell ill in Corona, was put to sleep and respirated for more than a month - and managed to recover to the surprise of the doctors, who had already prepared his wife for parting from him.
Go get vaccinated. "
Rabah and Aa, Yossi Zeliger
Mahmoud, married and a father of three, lives in Jerusalem and works as a criminal defense attorney.
His lifestyle before the Corona was "crazy," he said.
He worked long hours, days and nights.
As a person who did a lot of sports, swam and cycled regularly, albeit with diabetes but at a very low and balanced level, he sometimes thinks that his body just punished him for this lifestyle.
He contracted Corona in January this year.
Three days earlier it was approved to give a vaccine to 50-40 year olds.
"I tried to make an appointment for the vaccine but I couldn't, there was a load," he says.
Then he contracted: his condition rapidly worsened and he needed to be evacuated to a hospital.
"I couldn't breathe. I would take a breath and feel like I ran out right at first. I felt like I was drowning," he says.
Since there was no place in the corona wards of Hadassah Ein Kerem and Shaare Zedek hospitals, he turned to Beilinson.
"I thought I was going there for two or three days and coming home."
After a week the doctors told him that they must women and put him to sleep.
"At first I refused. I was afraid I would not wake up, but in the end my wife convinced me and I agreed. I was put to sleep. My condition was on the face. It was a very difficult time for family and friends. I suffered a system crash, and had to have dialysis several times."
A month and three days later he woke up.
"The doctors called me 'the survivor.'
After waking up, had to undergo a lengthy rehabilitation.
During the period when he was put to sleep and respirated, he lost 15 kg, the muscles in his body simply did not work and Rabah could only move his eyes. He was unable to speak either. Less hours than he worked before he contracted, also because of the difficulty - "To this day I am in lung rehabilitation.
If I go up two floors, I start panting.
I can not swim in a row without stopping after 100 meters, "and also because, he said," my priorities have changed for the benefit of the family.
I look at life differently today. "
To anyone who downplays the severity of the corona and refuses to be vaccinated, he says, "Do not underestimate this disease. If I had been vaccinated, it would not have happened to me. I thank the amazing staff at Beilinson."
Saja 'Atzi, director of communication clinics at Beilinson, shared: "I was particularly excited to see Mahmoud standing by the bed where he was hospitalized in critical condition, suddenly dressed in a lawyer's suit, breathing, eating and communicating on his own. "He was hospitalized. The meeting today gave me a lot of motivation to continue despite the difficulties and the heavy workload we are experiencing during this period."
"I slept for five weeks"
Maya Purani 46 years old from Petah Tikva
Maya is celebrating her 46th birthday today, and this year, unlike previous years, this date has a special meaning for her.
"It's not another birthday like it was in previous years. I learned to appreciate my life," she says.
Purani and McLeoda,
She is married and the mother of three daughters, works in a claims department at a large insurance company.
In January of this year, her life was turned upside down.
From a lively, sociable, independent and very active person she became a man confined to his bed when she fell ill in Corona and her condition deteriorated rapidly.
"I've been asthmatic for 20 years, but usually a healthy girl. Then came the corona. I arrived at Beilinson on January 11 with significant difficulty breathing. After two days I was already asleep and breathing. After four days I was connected to Acme because my lungs were not functioning. I slept five. "I woke up on February 18. I'm not really connected to reality."
Her husband and mother were also hospitalized, but recovered and left before her.
The woman who the doctors did not give her a chance and for five weeks told her family members to pray for her safety, left Beilinson six days later for rehabilitation at Beit Rivka in Petah Tikva.
"The staff did sacred work. They are God's messengers," she says.
Two months after she was hospitalized she returned home.
"I came to a new reality, I was 100% nursing. It was only after two weeks that I started walking a little on my own at home. After three weeks I showered alone sitting on a chair."
Today, nine months later, she stands at 70% function and works three hours a day from home.
"I was hurt mentally and physically. I was unable to speak and move, there is no lower than that. My whole outlook on life has changed as a result," she says, explaining: "Before Corona I was very drama queen, out of proportion. "That no one owes me anything and everything I get is a bonus. I thank you for every breath and breath. I have always loved life, but today they have a much more powerful meaning for me. I keep to myself and listen to my body and soul."
Due to Maya being in a risk group, she was entitled to a vaccine given at that time only to those aged 60 and over, but did not receive it.
"I thought I was protected and I was not in a hurry to get vaccinated. I did not underestimate Corona or the vaccine. I call on people to go get vaccinated. You do not know where it will come from," she says, adding: "Appreciate life. Nothing is taken for granted."
Mason McLeuda, a nurse in charge of the Corona ward, recalls: "Maya was in a very difficult situation, and to see her today is an unusual success story. This meeting reminds me why I chose the profession. She was hospitalized in the Corona ward with her mother. We kept them alive. Something in her story He managed to touch me personally. "
"80% of the patients in the wards today are not vaccinated, and most of them are young people aged 30 to 60. This is a very difficult situation that causes frustration. Every day I treat young patients who should not have been here."
