Fighting Covid on tracheostomy ventilator

[Anuur44]

Day 35 on ventilator and my mum is doing 65 breaths a minute. Has anyone managed to get their breaths back to normal? Her lungs are damaged by Covid and she developed lung fibrosis.

[Sepsur]

Hi @Anuur44

Welcome.

I don’t know ( or remember) my figures & although I didn’t have Covid, I experienced many of the complications associated with Covid. Multiple organ failure & severe ARDS meant that my lungs at one point resembled liver not lung tissue. A nurse had to hand pump me because I couldn’t tolerate intubation for a period of time, they feared brain damage through hypoxia if I survived at all.

They feared that the damage to my lungs would be catastrophic but it repaired massively. Although I am not illness free because I have an underlying condition that I’m treating at present, largely, I recovered from ICU