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A Texas man was in the hospital for weeks and close to becoming a part of the rising COVID-19 death toll according to WFAA 8. Christopher Marshall was on life support and the news outlet covered his tough road to recovery.

The 37-year-old tested positive for the virus in March and was put into a medically induced coma for having a lack of oxygen. Marshall noticed he had symptoms in March, but he initially dismissed the signs. Marshall’s condition worsened and developed pneumonia in his lungs and didn’t get tested for coronavirus until his wife convinced him to go to the Methodist Hospital emergency room. Marshall was nervous when he was told he needed to be placed in a coma.

“On the outside, I was calm, but, on the inside, I was very fearful because I’ve never been put to sleep like that before,” Marshall said. Once he was treated with hydroxychloroquine his condition became grave. Marshall suffers from diabetes as a result of the underlying condition. He was then airlifted from Methodist Hospital to Medical City in Plano, Texas.

Doctors had to oxygenate Marhsall’s blood from outside his body with an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation or ECMO life support machine. He also received fentanyl after this treatment and woke from his come on March 31, his birthday.

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