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Chest X-rays showed doctors what they were up against.
Healthy lungs full of air look black on the image. In Jason Barbosa s lungs, inflamed and filled with fluid, it looked like a whiteout.
Barbosa was 24, a dad, a husband and a gym buff who liked to lift weights. He was strong, but he wasn t invincible against COVID-19 and a litany of complications.
Doctors had tried everything possible to keep him alive. His ventilator had been turned to the highest setting. It still wasn t enough.
Three times, Barbosa s condition seemed so dire that doctors told his family to say goodbye. It takes a lot for me to call a family and say, I think this is the end, said Dr. Jonathan Tomasko, a cardiac surgeon at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield.
Life changed dramatically: Restaurants closed, parades were canceled and gatherings of any kind were discouraged.
And while strides are being made at getting back to normal, it will be a bit until all activities are back, and that can be hard to process.
Mia Rusev, a case therapist at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital, joined ABC 7 Chicago Wednesday morning to talk about how to best continue to cope with the pandemic.
She said patients should seek help from a therapist when how they re feeling greatly affects what they are able to do in their daily lives.