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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“Does anyone know when ABC is going to do a story on all the adverse reactions and deaths attributed to the vaccines?”
Never.
*shrug* I just call it exactly as I see it, and it’s easy to spot BS these days.
It’s amazing how many people here keep pushing this.
Overseas I was very good at extracting info from people who didn’t want to give it up, I would love to do that to a few people here who keep this up and find out who’s paying who and how much.
Sure...right.
He would have had a sore arm for a few days and fatigue most likely. Not going through all of this suffering.
But keep on spreading your false narrative - maybe only "a few" more people will suffer needlessly like this guy because of your efforts.
The whole reason people claim the vaccines aren’t vaccines is that they don’t contain any of the dead virus. How, then, would it give him the virus? Yes, idiot Luddites for eschewing advances in technology. Or, sometimes, just idiots.
“Doctors said that the head start the first shot gave him probably saved his life.”
Ridiculous speculation.
Exactly what I take every day.
I also lift 3x a week, play volleyball, sprint, do yoga, meditate, eat healthy, and get 7-9 hours sleep a night.
They can cram their shot up their...
Not mine; but then too, it goes both ways.
Oh, and really my voice on this is going to convince someone else?
Right. How dare doctors speculate about someone’s diagnosis, recovery, and reaction to drugs. They’re just doctors. They should defer to the keyboard physicians and scientists here.
You’re too stupid by half.
The idea that a doctor can pinpoint an actual cause is nonsense. That’s why it’s called practicing medicine.
It’s the same for climate change. PhD scientists can not specify exactness due to the complexity involved.
I don’t think I’m smarter, but I’m smart enough to know they can’t solve that level of complexity.
Another believer?
OH NO! THIS IS SCARY NEWS.
until I read it came from ABC via MSN.
looks like Dr. Bill Gates is a bit nervous.
thanks for the laugh! :)
He and his wife debated getting the vaccine at all, probably due to listening to crackpot theories like FR is lousy with nowadays.
Hmmm...the gentleman didn't get COVID-19 in the year and a half since it's been in the U.S. but somehow gets sick and almost dies two weeks after his first dose of an experimental treatment. Yet, people who won't subject themselves to an experimental treatment are crackpots?
I have had the two jab Pfizer for about two months now, and last weekend, I felt a cold coming on.
Basically, it was a common cold, a nuisance.
I had a wet cough(phlegm), runny nose, and sneezing occasionally. No fever, no sore throat, no headaches, no muscle fatigue, no chills, you get the idea.
It is a classic cold. Heck I still remember the summer cold I had when I was 18, I'm in my 50's, and it was worse.
I feel better today.
Explain break out cases.
And, enough of your arrogant name calling.
How’d he get those lungs so fast? Must have got them from China.
I seriously ask what is stopping the Covid Vaxx Cabal to simply make it "law" that every human on Earth get the push of back to "normal"?
Is this like the weather people driving around to find a deep puddle to stand in while people walk on the street behind them?
I didn’t see where he started taking hydroxyclolqine, zinc + a zpac at first symptoms. Then I started to wonder about Ivermectin. After that, I started thinking about a good vitimin regiment that people take to reduce the chances of getting and the severity of Covid. You know, vitimins C, d, B, k, and quercetin with zinc thrown in. Funny how the news ignores all of that.
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