Marion Gauthier, edited by Manon Fossat 10:42 am, September 02, 2021
Some of them have been close to death, still have the after-effects of the disease, or even traumatic memories of their time in intensive care after contracting Covid-19.
So since their recovery, they have been campaigning for vaccination so, they say, that others do not know the same thing as them.
Two in three French people are now vaccinated against the coronavirus.
Among them, former patients traumatized by their passage in intensive care.
Patients who admit to having been very afraid and therefore campaign for vaccination.
This is particularly the case of Laurent, who fell ill at the start of the health crisis, and plunged into a coma on March 23, 2020 for two weeks.
Show "the reality of a serious Covid"
"I woke up and I was paralyzed. I couldn't breathe, swallow, eat, speak or move."
Upon awakening, this father indeed developed Guillain-Barré syndrome, a neurological disorder, and was completely paralyzed.
"I had the tracheostomy and every 15 minutes I had to ring the bell to have my throat sucked. It was bad enough for me to think that the vaccine could be useful" he admits. .
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"So we were all vaccinated in the first," says his wife who supported him in this ordeal. Today, the 40-year-old continues to rehabilitate. Between two sessions, he puts down his cane and turns on his computer: he spends all his free time testifying and sharing articles on social networks about vaccination. A situation that also lives Philippe, quarantine too, blown by the virus last April. "Suddenly, I had taken 40 years. There is a before and an after," he says.
Diabetes, hypertension, paranoid delirium ... His body is deeply marked by resuscitation. “The first thing I did was I turned my cell back on so that people could understand the reality of a serious Covid. Every day that someone is waiting to get vaccinated, he takes the risk that what happened to me will happen to him, "warns the former patient. Still in a walker, Philippe says he fought death. A fight he in a book to be published this year.