Your Healthy Family: Battling severe COVID - from a nurse s perspective
At times DeeAnn says it all became too much to bear. âI wanted to give them a tap out sign, but I couldn t raise my arm. All I could do was raise my finger. I wished people would have just let me go, I don t want to live through this.â
and last updated 2021-08-04 20:23:13-04
COLORADO SPRINGS â When DeeAnn Weed, a registered nurse, was hospitalized with COVID in December 2020 â just a week before vaccines became available (STORY HERE YHF: After weeks in hospital with severe COVID, Colorado nurse and veteran still battling aftermath of virus) - she was fighting for her life, and she was doing so with insider knowledge from the medical world.
Jim says, “My message would be to remember that COVID can get anybody at any time. It can get you just in a minor way or it can take you all the way to the graveyard, just as quick as that.”
Your Healthy Family: Infectious disease expert addresses some of parents biggest concerns about COVID vaccine for kids
With the Pfizer vaccine, now cleared for kids 12 and older, they will be given in the same doses as adults are getting.
and last updated 2021-05-13 15:31:35-04
COLORADO SPRINGS â I recently got a question from a viewer about COVID-19 vaccine dosing. She asked me why a 103-pound woman gets the same dose of vaccine as a 300-pound man. Also, with the Pfizer COVID vaccine now approved for children 12 and older in the United States, parents perhaps might have the same question. I spoke with Dr. Michelle Barron, the senior medical director of infection prevention at UCHealth, to get the answer.
Your Healthy Family: Springs woman improving in fight with debilitating neuromuscular disease
Donna explains when she was first diagnosed, âIt was very awkward and unusual. I would get fatigued in the most unusual ways. My coworkers and everyone thought I was drinking, or using drugs.
and last updated 2021-04-21 17:29:19-04
COLORADO SPRINGS â There s a new medical space in Colorado Springs that was gifted to UCHealth Memorial by an anonymous donor that is vastly improving the quality of life of patients by making critical treatments available locally, saving them the trip to Denver.
Itâs an Apheresis Suite, and is located in the new infusion center at UCHealth Memorial North Hospital in Colorado Springs. Apheresis is basically a process of collecting someoneâs blood, separating it into itâs base components, and then removing parts of the blood that may contain disease, or disease-provoking elements and then replacing it.