A good news Covid story: UK couple marries at hospital before man is rushed to ICU
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A good news Covid story: UK couple marries at hospital before man is rushed to ICU
UK couple marries in coronavirus ward at Milton Keynes hospital before man is rushed to ICU
British couple Elizabeth Kerr and Simon O'Brien had been planning to marry in June. Then COVID-19 struck.
Both contracted the disease and were rushed to Milton Keynes University Hospital in the same ambulance when their oxygen levels fell dangerously low.
Ms Kerr and Mr O'Brien became so ill that medical staff scrambled to organise a wedding before it was too late.
When Mr O'Brien's condition got even worse, it was decided he should be transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU).
Even that did not stop them: staff delayed his intubation just long enough for them to tie the knot.
"They told me that we wouldn't be able to get married after all, because they were going to have to intubate Simon and put him under," Ms Kerr recalled.
"But they held off for another hour. And he just, just rallied in that time, just long enough for us to get married."
With mortality rates now as high as 80 per cent in the ICU, a happy ending was far from certain.
But Mr O'Brien's condition improved and the newlyweds reunited on a COVID-19 ward where both are gradually recovering, although still receiving oxygen.
"We had to wait a few days for our first kiss," Kerr told Reuters.
Full: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-22/ ... 8HrBlF5X14
British couple Elizabeth Kerr and Simon O'Brien had been planning to marry in June. Then COVID-19 struck.
Both contracted the disease and were rushed to Milton Keynes University Hospital in the same ambulance when their oxygen levels fell dangerously low.
Ms Kerr and Mr O'Brien became so ill that medical staff scrambled to organise a wedding before it was too late.
When Mr O'Brien's condition got even worse, it was decided he should be transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU).
Even that did not stop them: staff delayed his intubation just long enough for them to tie the knot.
"They told me that we wouldn't be able to get married after all, because they were going to have to intubate Simon and put him under," Ms Kerr recalled.
"But they held off for another hour. And he just, just rallied in that time, just long enough for us to get married."
With mortality rates now as high as 80 per cent in the ICU, a happy ending was far from certain.
But Mr O'Brien's condition improved and the newlyweds reunited on a COVID-19 ward where both are gradually recovering, although still receiving oxygen.
"We had to wait a few days for our first kiss," Kerr told Reuters.
Full: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-22/ ... 8HrBlF5X14
Re: A good news Covid story: UK couple marries at hospital before man is rushed to ICU
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Re: A good news Covid story: UK couple marries at hospital before man is rushed to ICU
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The triple-breasted whore of Eroticon 6. Once called Zaphod Beeblebrox, “The Best Bang since the Big One.”
Some people say that her erogenous zones start some four miles from her actual body. Ford Prefect, on the other hand, believes it to be five.
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