'I love my family, my kids and my wife more than I love myself. So when I would fight, I would fight for them,' the father of seven said.
The 43-year-old spent 549 days in hospitals and long-term acute care facilities after falling ill with Covid-19 in September 2020, well before vaccines were available, his family said. He finally made it home to Roswell, New Mexico, on Friday. "I don't take anything for granted, that's for sure. I went 550 days without seeing my kids, I have a grandson that I hadn't met and that is the big thing," Donnell told CNN on Monday.
She went through a phase where she shut off her emotions to get through it all because she was scared, she said. "We've lost a lot of family members, a lot of friends," Ashley said."My grandmother died throughout this and he's my biggest support. When I didn't have him, I just was pretty emotionless for a while."Donnell has been on a ventilator since fall 2020.
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