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It is now Day 53 on life support for Kristin Kay, a beloved nurse and mother in Gainesville who contracted COVID-19 and has been fighting to survive in a hospital since December.
A ventilator and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation or ECMO machine still breathe for her at North Florida Regional Medical Center. Two infections test her healing lungs. She can t talk or laugh or even smile. But she is improving, said Steven Kay, her husband.
Kristin can lightly squeeze his hand on command. Sometimes she opens her eyes when he plays her videos of their 5-year-old son, Parker, or their wedding dance. Once, when he showed her a memory on his phone of country musician Garth Brooks singing I Won t Back Down by Tom Petty in the Ben Hill Griffin Stadium from a concert they attended together in 2019, she raised and lowered her right arm.