Posted on 06/17/2021 2:57:15 PM PDT by BeauBo
Joshua Garza had a chance to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in January but he passed it up, thinking he didn't really need it.
Now, the 43-year-old Texan is hoping to inspire others to get the shot after he became so ill following his COVID-19 diagnosis that he needed a rare double lung transplant to survive.
"COVID ended up attacking my lungs," Garza, of Sugarland, told ABC News.
After testing positive for COVID-19 in late January, Garza's health deteriorated rapidly. On Feb. 2, when he ended up falling while trying to walk, his wife called for an ambulance to take him to the hospital. He was ultimately transferred to Houston Methodist, where he was put on an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine to pump and oxygenate his blood for him.
"It was quick, it was within three weeks, the lungs were already shot," said Garza, who works in the oil and gas industry.
Garza was put on the lung transplant list, and on April 13, successfully underwent surgery. He spent several more weeks recovering and rehabilitating to regain his strength after two months on life support before being released from the hospital on May 27...
"It's much easier to get the vaccine than to go through something like this," Huang said of Garza's case. "He's extremely lucky. Most people in this situation don't make it to the transplant. You can't count on this outcome."
For Garza, he's sharing his story in hopes of helping prevent others from experiencing what we went through.
"If I knew what I know now," he said, "I would have definitely went through with the vaccination."
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doctors and lawyers are the only professionals that get away with calling their services “practice”...
would you trust your car or truck to any mechanic that uses the word “practice” in advertising?...
The one in a million is the norm now. Have they looked for any issues on vaccine deaths?
“How’d he get those lungs so fast? Must have got them from China.”
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Probably more than anything there was available a donor with a relatively close genetic match. I’m sure other things factored into him getting “lucky” such as age.
"after having been put on double ventilators to blow out his lungs"
Actually, he wasn't intubated per the article. He was put on a heart/lung machine. Seems as though at least his doctors learned the early lessons from last year and didn't vent him.
This guy spent God knows how long in the ICU between being kept alive on an ECMO machine followed by a lung transplant. The medical bills for this soul are already enormous either to his insurer and or Medicaid.
I'll be shocked if by the time health insurance enrollment comes along later in the year if most insurers don't require a COVID vaccination to avoid a surcharge as many tobacco users currently pay.
I’ll take “who was Lysenko” for $100 Bobo.
Your hero in Soviet science.
The ignorance on this thread is astounding. Hang i. despite the hate coming your way
95% effective means 5% ineffective. I know. Math is hard.
“When you suddenly can’t smell or taste action is a must.” Now that PSA combined with therapeutics could have save some lives.
One guy with an extreme COVID complication: Definitive!
95% effective means 5% ineffective. I know. Math is hard.
95% effective based on what?
FRAUDci/CDC math?
Oh, geez. So now not only does the not a vaccine vaccine rewrite your DNA, make you sterile, kill you in two years, make you magnetic, insert chips into you, used as a tracking device, it actually causes the disease? I give up. You simply can’t logically address this sort of lunacy.
If he had taken the vax in January would his one shot have been effective enough in a matter of days?
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Have you read the stories about the younger people who get the vaccine and have their precious little hearts enlarged. I just don’t see any benefit when young people for the most part don’t even get sick from it!
Clinical studies. Many of them.
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It being covid of course and also my first sentence should have had a question mark.
Was he given HCQ and Ivermectin etc. upon first symptoms?
If not, who can he hold responsible for withholding lifesaving tteatment?
The fear monger machine working overtime on behalf of big pharma.
Me neither. It’s a matter of comparing risks. For the individual in the article and the individual in my story, the risk of the disease was greater than any possible risk of the vaccine. Same in my case. Type 1 diabetic pushing 50. Vaccine made sense. I don’t intend for my teenage son to get it. Yes, there are unknowns. There are unknown long term effects of the disease, too. But the hysteria and conspiracy theories being floated about genocide and whatnot are what keep the people who would benefit from the vaccines from taking them.
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