heritagesetr.blogg.se

• #REQUIREMENTS TO DONATE PLASMA IN CORPUS CHRISTI UPDATE#

Units of plasma intended for him were mistakenly sent to the wrong ICU that morning. He’s all alone.”īrown received plasma on June 9, after 10 people donated in his name. My fear is that we’ll get a call that we lost our dad. “They just wait at their homes for a phone call that may or may not happen.

#REQUIREMENTS TO DONATE PLASMA IN CORPUS CHRISTI UPDATE#

“Some people only get one update on their loved ones a day,” Gornell said.

As of Thursday, July 9, there were 332 patients hospitalized and 93 in the ICU in the Corpus Christi area, according to health district data. Gornell says the hospital phone often goes unanswered because the staff is too overwhelmed with patients to stop working. He’s being monitored for cytokine storm, an immune response in which your body starts attacking your healthy blood cells, which seems to be the fuel behind many COVID-19 deaths. “There he’s just a number.”īrown has double pneumonia and is fighting to recover from the damage of COVID-19. “As soon as he got transferred to Shoreline it was like your worst fear because he got transferred to the war zone,” Gornell said. Within 30 minutes of his transfer to CHRISTUS Spohn Shoreline, Brown was intubated and placed on a ventilator. “When they transferred him, he gave us a thumbs up on Facetime and we let him know it was okay and he was going to be good.” “They said they were trying to keep him off the ventilator,” Gornell said. The following day he was placed in the intensive care unit, and doctors put in an order for plasma. Paramedics transported Brown to CHRISTUS Spohn South on June 2, where he was placed on a BiPAP machine two days later. Brown also has sleep apnea and began to wear his CPAP machine during the day because he was struggling to breathe, Gornell said.