The 56-year-old mom spent weeks on a ventilator and was thought to be at death’s door. She wants everyone to see what it’s like to be on the brink—so they can avoid it.
Michelle Fluegge wants everybody to see the photo of her on a ventilator during her very worst days because it shows what can happen if you fail to get vaccinated.
“We had the Delta variant down here six months prior,” Scott later said of Florida. “The lines to the emergency room were insane.” The funeral was on Sept. 30, but Greg had a 104-degree fever that morning. Michelle took him to the ER and he tested positive for COVID-19.Michelle tested positive the next day.The indomitable lunch lady became so weak she could barely get out of bed.
“There was an older gentleman that was supposed to take the helicopter up to Minneapolis for that ventilator,” Scott recalled. “And my mom was younger. He said, ‘If anybody’s going to survive, it’s going to be her… Don’t take me, take her.’” For three days, they told Michelle to keep fighting so she could be around for her grandchildren and future grandchildren.Then the family received what Scott terms “the best call we’ve ever gotten.”
“The nurse would swab in my mouth. It was a minty tasty thing. I think I still had the ventilator on me. I'm not quite sure if I did or not, but they made me gag up this brown mucus stuff in a bag. And I watched it come out. I was so weak, but they said I had to do this. I don’t remember how many times I did it, but it felt like a lot.”“I told myself in my mind, ‘I can’t do this anymore,’” she recalled. “I couldn’t breathe. I thought I was gone, going to be dying.
The lunch lady who had never taken a sick day until COVID struck had been unable to work and her children sought to ease the financial pressure with a“Mom wanted us to share this picture of her to show what it looks like to be on a ventilator,” they noted on the page. “None of us knew what it was like beforehand and she wants the message to be heard that getting vaccinated is important not only to you as an individual, but to the loved ones around you.
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