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TOMS RIVER Kim Spinelli spent Wednesday morning crying. There were tears of joy and a little bit of angst. For the first time in nearly four months, after a brutal struggle with COVID-19 that required 74 days on a ventilator and a tracheotomy, the 42-year-old from Brick was headed home.
“It was like being a baby bird pushed out of the nest,” she said.
Spinelli’s sister, Teena O’Connell, signed her out Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Toms River. O’Connell was by Kim’s side throughout the ordeal, singing to her when she was in a coma, decorating the walls of her hospital room, sometimes pleading with God from her bedside.