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‘Thank you for everything’: Toronto COVID-19 survivor returns to ICU with message for care team
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Michael Ejercito
Oct 29, 2021, 11:01:13 AM10/29/21
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‘Thank you for everything’: Toronto COVID-19 survivor returns to ICU
with message for care team
By Caryn Lieberman Global News
Posted October 29, 2021 6:00 am
Updated October 29, 2021 6:24 am
Global News at 5:30 Toronto: October 28, 2021
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The very first COVID-19 patient in Humber River Hospital’s intensive
care unit returned a year and a half since he was first admitted to
thank the medical team that saved his life. Caryn Lieberman reports.
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A year and a half since Mario Castillo was taken off a ventilator at
Humber River Hospital after spending nine weeks intubated, fighting
COVID-19, he returned to thank the medical team that saved his life.
“Want to say thank you for everybody taking care of me … thank you for
everything,” he said.
Seeing Castillo healthy is a huge morale boost for the front-line
health-care workers who cared for him during the first wave of the pandemic.
“The team is overwhelmed. I have a nurse that stayed overnight just to
see Mario. She took care of him and hearing Mario speak today, I had
goosebumps,” said Cecile Marville-Williams, program director with
responsibility for critical care, cardiology, respiratory and oncology.
Marville-Williams lost her mother to COVID-19, so seeing Castillo
thriving is even more meaningful.
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“To see him today walking, talking, to be able to come back and give
back to us by sharing his experience just made me feel very
overwhelmed,” she said.
Castillo was the first COVID-19 patient to be intubated in the intensive
care unit at Humber River Hospital.
In late March of 2020, the mechanic went to the emergency room after
leaving work early one day with a fever and runny nose and spending a
week sick in bed.
Within hours of arriving in hospital, Castillo’s symptoms worsened.
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updates recovery, expresses fear
“I saw him the first time that he came with shortness of breath and we
had a flood of patients with COVID. So everyone that came with shortness
of breath and low oxygen saturations was most likely a COVID patient,”
recalled Flor Guevara, respiratory therapist.
The next day, Guevara said Castillo had been moved to the ICU from the
emergency department.
“I remembered that I had a Spanish background and I said, ‘I need to
talk to him.’ So I went inside and I spoke to him and I explained to
him, ‘We need to give you a medication to put you into sleep’ and then
he said, ‘How long I’m going to be down?’ and I said, ‘We don’t know’,”
she said.
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Seeing Castillo all these months later was emotional for Guevara, who
called his recovery “a miracle.”
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Critical care physician Dr. Keren Mandelzweig was part of the medical
team that performed the intubation on Castillo.
“Really what stands out to me is all the preparation that went into
preparing to perform the intubation, all the new protocols that had to
be put in place, the whole team coming together to learn how to do
everything in a different way to keep, of course, the patients safe, but
also everyone safe,” she recalled.
Mandelzweig said she remembers feeling worried about Castillo.
“We didn’t know that much about the disease and we didn’t know what his
outcome was going to be. I remember just basically a lot of unknowns,”
she said.
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Seeing Castillo after all this time was thrilling for Mandelzweig.
“It almost took my breath away,” she said.
Castillo is planning to return to work soon. He has not yet fully
recovered but can walk again and has regained strength in his hands.
He said he will also visit St. John’s Rehab at Sunnybrook Hospital one
day soon to thank the team there.
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‘Thank you for everything’: Toronto COVID-19 survivor returns to ICU
with message for care team
By Caryn Lieberman Global News
Posted October 29, 2021 6:00 am
Updated October 29, 2021 6:24 am
Global News at 5:30 Toronto: October 28, 2021
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The very first COVID-19 patient in Humber River Hospital’s intensive
care unit returned a year and a half since he was first admitted to
thank the medical team that saved his life. Caryn Lieberman reports.
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A year and a half since Mario Castillo was taken off a ventilator at
Humber River Hospital after spending nine weeks intubated, fighting
COVID-19, he returned to thank the medical team that saved his life.
“Want to say thank you for everybody taking care of me … thank you for
everything,” he said.
Seeing Castillo healthy is a huge morale boost for the front-line
health-care workers who cared for him during the first wave of the pandemic.
“The team is overwhelmed. I have a nurse that stayed overnight just to
see Mario. She took care of him and hearing Mario speak today, I had
goosebumps,” said Cecile Marville-Williams, program director with
responsibility for critical care, cardiology, respiratory and oncology.
Marville-Williams lost her mother to COVID-19, so seeing Castillo
thriving is even more meaningful.
STORY CONTINUES BELOW ADVERTISEMENT
READ MORE: ‘This is my second chance’: COVID-19 survivor who defied odds
recovering in rehab centre
“To see him today walking, talking, to be able to come back and give
back to us by sharing his experience just made me feel very
overwhelmed,” she said.
Castillo was the first COVID-19 patient to be intubated in the intensive
care unit at Humber River Hospital.
In late March of 2020, the mechanic went to the emergency room after
leaving work early one day with a fever and runny nose and spending a
week sick in bed.
Within hours of arriving in hospital, Castillo’s symptoms worsened.
READ MORE: ‘I’m scared’: Toronto COVID-19 survivor who defied odds
updates recovery, expresses fear
“I saw him the first time that he came with shortness of breath and we
had a flood of patients with COVID. So everyone that came with shortness
of breath and low oxygen saturations was most likely a COVID patient,”
recalled Flor Guevara, respiratory therapist.
The next day, Guevara said Castillo had been moved to the ICU from the
emergency department.
“I remembered that I had a Spanish background and I said, ‘I need to
talk to him.’ So I went inside and I spoke to him and I explained to
him, ‘We need to give you a medication to put you into sleep’ and then
he said, ‘How long I’m going to be down?’ and I said, ‘We don’t know’,”
she said.
STORY CONTINUES BELOW ADVERTISEMENT
Seeing Castillo all these months later was emotional for Guevara, who
called his recovery “a miracle.”
Click to play video: 'Ontario lifts capacity limits for outdoor public
events'
2:16
Ontario lifts capacity limits for outdoor public events
Ontario lifts capacity limits for outdoor public events
Critical care physician Dr. Keren Mandelzweig was part of the medical
team that performed the intubation on Castillo.
“Really what stands out to me is all the preparation that went into
preparing to perform the intubation, all the new protocols that had to
be put in place, the whole team coming together to learn how to do
everything in a different way to keep, of course, the patients safe, but
also everyone safe,” she recalled.
Mandelzweig said she remembers feeling worried about Castillo.
“We didn’t know that much about the disease and we didn’t know what his
outcome was going to be. I remember just basically a lot of unknowns,”
she said.
STORY CONTINUES BELOW ADVERTISEMENT
READ MORE: ‘I’ll live to see another day’: COVID-19 survivor describes
effects of virus 8 months later
Seeing Castillo after all this time was thrilling for Mandelzweig.
“It almost took my breath away,” she said.
Castillo is planning to return to work soon. He has not yet fully
recovered but can walk again and has regained strength in his hands.
He said he will also visit St. John’s Rehab at Sunnybrook Hospital one
day soon to thank the team there.
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HeartDoc Andrew
Oct 29, 2021, 12:41:27 PM10/29/21
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Toronto & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
...because we mindfully choose to openly care with our heart,
HeartDoc Andrew <><
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Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD
Cardiologist with an http://HeartMDPhD.com/EternalMedicalLicense
2024 & upwards non-partisan candidate for U.S. President:
http://HeartMDPhD.com/WonderfullyHungryPresident
and author of the 2PD-OMER Approach:
http://HeartMDPhD.com/HeartDocAndrewCare
which is the only **healthy** cure for the U.S. healthcare crisis
Michael Ejercito
Oct 31, 2021, 4:15:14 PM10/31/21
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Michael
HeartDoc Andrew
Oct 31, 2021, 6:14:28 PM10/31/21
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MichaelE wrote:
While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, not only don't have
COVID-19 but are rapture (Luke 17:37) ready and pray (2 Chronicles
7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6) Father in Heaven continues to
give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so
that we'd have much more of His Help to always say/write that we're
"wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways including especially caring to
http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John 15:12 as shown by
http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) with all glory (
http://bit.ly/Psalm117_ ) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.
Laus DEO !
Suggested further reading:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/5EWtT4CwCOg/m/QjNF57xRBAAJ
Shorter link:
http://bit.ly/StatCOVID-19Test
Be hungrier, which really is wonderfully healthier especially for
diabetics and other heart disease patients:
http://HeartMDPhD.com/HeartDocAndrewToutsHunger (Luke 6:21a) with all
glory ( http://HeartMDPhD.com/Psalm117_ ) to GOD, Who causes us to
hunger (Deuteronomy 8:3) when He blesses us right now (Luke 6:21a)
thereby removing the http://HeartMDPhD.com/VAT from around the heart
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, not only don't have
COVID-19 but are rapture (Luke 17:37) ready and pray (2 Chronicles
7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6) Father in Heaven continues to
give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so
that we'd have much more of His Help to always say/write that we're
"wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways including especially caring to
http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John 15:12 as shown by
http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) with all glory (
http://bit.ly/Psalm117_ ) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.
Laus DEO !
Suggested further reading:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/5EWtT4CwCOg/m/QjNF57xRBAAJ
Shorter link:
http://bit.ly/StatCOVID-19Test
Be hungrier, which really is wonderfully healthier especially for
diabetics and other heart disease patients:
http://HeartMDPhD.com/HeartDocAndrewToutsHunger (Luke 6:21a) with all
glory ( http://HeartMDPhD.com/Psalm117_ ) to GOD, Who causes us to
hunger (Deuteronomy 8:3) when He blesses us right now (Luke 6:21a)
thereby removing the http://HeartMDPhD.com/VAT from around the heart
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