A man who overcame COVID-19 in early 2021 decided to become an EMT to provide others with similar support he received when he was sick.
COLUMBIA, S.C. – JJ Smith started feeling sick on Jan. 5, thinking he had a bad sinus infection.
“I would take a couple over the counter medicines and within a couple of days, I’d be perfectly fine. One day later, I woke up with a 104 fever and I was diagnosed with double covid and pneumonia,” Smith toldSmith said he was begging to be intubated. He was breathing around 42 times a minute and his oxygen saturation was at 85 percent. He was maxed out on non-invasive ventilation.“Dr.
Smith, 23, is now a nursing technician in the critical care unit, working alongside the same nurses who cared for him. “I was blessed to still be here today, because of the amazing critical care staff that I can now call co-workers,” Smith said.“Knowing that I’m able to be there to comfort them and to tell them that I personally went through what they’re about to go through, they feel more at ease, more relaxed knowing that I had the same doctor they did, knowing I was in the same room as the. It’s almost a personal connection,” Smith said.
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