'I still have nerve damage in both hands, in both arms.'
Pero spent 30 days on a ventilator with pneumonia in both his lungs. When doctors removed him from the ventilator, Pero said he"had no idea" what day it was.
Raul Pero reunited with his husband, Aaron Guiseffe, on May 8 after a weeks-long battle with COVID-19. "You lost your other half for however long, and you didn't know when you were going to get him back," Giuseffi said."You didn't want to let him out of your arms and keep him. … And I still feel that way. There's nights that I wake up in bed and roll over to make sure he's alright. This changed it. You just realize how fragile this is and those things I took for granted.
Raul Pero and Aaron Guiseffe pose with their dog. Pero suffered nerve damage during his battle with COVID-19 but is now recovering. "That's all I wanted when I was in the hospital was to get out," he said."If I was going to go, it wasn't going to be in the hospital. So, every day was, for me, it was like a fight to get out so I can get home."
Amanda Phommachanh embraces her husband, Titou Phommachanh, after he was released from a three-week hospital stay due to the novel coronavirus.At the end of July, Phommachahn had his first follow-up visit with his doctors since he was discharged from the hospital. Doctors had feared his lungs would be permanently scarred by the virus, but an X-ray showed they had fully healed.
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