His fiancée used a ventilator for almost a week after an Ohio man who came to the Washington, DC area to work as a nurse treating patients with CODID-19 became ill with the new coronavirus himself. It says that.

Michael Rhodes left Columbus in April to D.C. Helped to care for the patient. A company working with a commercial kitchen in a small business fire department slowed down while a restaurant closed under a home-order.

Rhodes, 46, is also a part-time nurse, but his fiancé nurse, Amber Wachen Schwantz, said he was not guaranteed hours of work at his hospital in Ohio. NBC News.. Wachen Schwantz knew on the network that he needed to withhold salaries from small businesses, lacked a secure job in the hospital, and needed to support his family while helping him fight the pandemic.

“He knows that these devastated areas of the pandemic need help, and he can help,” she said.

As such, Rhodes headed for the D.C. region, where more than 3,000 deaths and 68,000 cases occurred in the region. Washington Post..

Mr. Rhodes worked hours in a non-coronavirus bed at a hospital in Prince George County, Maryland, and then spent hours at a makeshift hospital for COVID-19 patients, Wachen Schwantz told NBC News.

“I’ve been working for a long time in a COVID unit. Only a certain amount of allowance for PPE. He wore N95 for more shifts than he needed and was forced to wear gowns for longer than safety. These sick people, mostly elderly care homes for the elderly, who require constant rotation and support, do all they can to tackle a long shift that sweats layers of PPE and at the end of the day becomes completely exhausted and dehydrated. It was. ”Wachenschwanz Described on Facebook..

But one day Rhodes began to experience back pain.

“He went to the chiropractor because he thought it might have worked a long shift,” Wahenschwantz told NBC News.

But Rhodes woke up overnight with a fever and when he knew what the symptoms were, he eventually went to the emergency room, Wachen Schwanz wrote on Facebook.

Last week, Rose was ventilated after his condition did not improve. “(Doctor) said Michael did everything they asked for, but his body was fighting,” Wachen Schwantz wrote. Facebook Post..

Wagenschwantz said Rhodes continues to fight, but faces several complications as it pulls out the respiratory tract several times. “Our fighter, a stubborn man, seems unable to leave that damn breathing tube.” I have written on Wednesday.

Thursday, Wagen Schwantz said Rhodes was improving“He’s completely awake and grumpy. If you can imagine, he’s gone through hell. Tubes, tests, fights for breathing and healing, and badly lost home.”

The three mothers had difficulty explaining the Rhodes disease to their children.

“The first thing for me was to ask,” Will Michael die? “, Wagenschwantz said. WCMH-TV.. “I had to explain to him that he was very ill and the doctor was working very hard to make him better.”

Her twins were nine years old in a previous relationship and she understands the situation, she told the television station. But her two-year-old son, who was on Rhodes, just wants to see his father.

“He always thinks of his dad. He wants him a home, and so do I,” he told WCM H-TV in Columbus. “It’s not easy for now.”

To help my family, one of Rhodes’ friends GoFundMeSince then, $ 26,000 has been raised for expected medical expenses.

“Keep praying. I hope you have a better day. Thank you for your help,” Wachchen Schwantz wrote on Facebook.

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