A healthy 26-year-old, Fabian Granado thought he was 'invincible.' Then, COVID almost took his life.
Fabian Granado's father accompanied his son out of the hospital on Tuesday, more than five months after he jumped on a flight from Texas upon hearing his child was hospitalized in Florida with a serious case of COVID-19.
"I came to Florida from Texas thinking I was coming to bury my son. When I got here and saw the condition he was in, I saw there was a real possibility he was not coming home alive. That's the worst experience that any parent can go through," Rene Granado, Fabian's father, toldRene spent every day by his son's side and Dr.
The 26-year-old wasn't vaccinated when he got sick despite his father's urging that he get inoculated. He told thethat he doesn't think he would have suffered"nearly as much" if he had been vaccinated, and encouraged other people to get vaccinated to avoid going through the same experience he did. Once Fabian was able to get vaccinated during his hospitalization, he did, according to Shriber, and the 26-year-old plans to get the booster dose when he's eligible.
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