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ARDS Stories
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ARDS Stories
My name is Dan – I reside in northeastern Pennsylvania and this is my ARDS survivorship story. On Saturday March 7th 2020 I attended a festival in Brooklyn New York […]
- Covid, ECMO
One morning changed my life. A date I will never forget: 13th June 2019. That week, I had been doing my normal activities, going to work, seeing friends and enjoying […]
- Asthma, ECMO
My name is Steve Edmonson, this is my experience after sepsis, which means, it is also about post-ICU Syndrome, or PICS as it has come to be known, something that […]
- infection, PICS, Sepsis
I was living my best life In 2020, at 41 years old, I was living my best single life. I had traveled to Spain to celebrate my 40th birthday, I […]
- ECMO, Pneumonia, UTI
Like my fellow survivors and their loved ones, ARDS came from out of left field for me. In early March 2023, on the cusp of turning 35 years old, I […]
- PICS, Sepsis, Surgery
The night of October 11th, I put my son to bed after a delicious ice cream dinner following a dog walk and fishing expedition out of his tree house. He had […]
- ECMO, kids, Pneumonia, RSV