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I came home after they gave me some medicine, and I was feeling okay,\u201d she said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That, though, wasn\u2019t the end \u2013 it was the beginning of a horrible journey. \u201cThen, on Monday, I wasn\u2019t feeling too good, and I ended up calling the ambulance. They took me to the hospital, and they gave me an IV. I came home around six hours later and thought, \u2018I have got this thing whipped. I feel great.\u2019\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadly, this wasn\u2019t the case. \u201cAnd then 48 hours later, I took a turn for the worse, and I had to call the ambulance again. They said this time, not only do you have COVID, but also double pneumonia. But they didn\u2019t keep me. They sent me home because the hospitals were so swamped. They said for me to just to go home.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lori decided to recover at home and selflessly warned her son, who has asthma, to stay away from the house for his own safety. The fact that she wasn\u2019t answering any texts alerted him to something very amiss. He went to his mother\u2019s house, kicked in the back door, and discovered his seriously ill mom going into cardiac arrest.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t remember much. I do remember my son kicking my door in and then helping me into the ambulance. And [I remember] him standing there, just looking in despair as those two glass doors to the emergency room closed. 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I said I didn\u2019t want to be vented; I\u2019d just die if I had to.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lori remained in the hospital for five long weeks. \u201cThe first week or so, I wasn\u2019t very coherent, but I knew the voice of that one doctor who was standing over me. That same person appeared again, probably after I\u2019d been there a week or so. He appeared back in my room and stood at the foot of my bed. He called my name and said, \u2018You need to keep fighting. You\u2019re not supposed to be here.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lori\u2019s father had taught her to fight at an early age. And fight she did \u2013 with the assistance of her protector.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who, though, was this doctor? The nurses had been wondering the same thing themselves and followed him one night, pushing the door open to Lori\u2019s room. He was nowhere to be found \u2013 not anywhere. \u201cYou\u2019ve got an angel holding you up and keeping you going,\u201d the nurse concluded.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lori was eventually released from the hospital so emaciated that, at first, her son failed to recognize her. Recovery was slow and gradual, but Lori was determined to regain her earlier life. When well-meaning friends got sick and couldn\u2019t help her drive her limo, she did it herself.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lori never did discover the identity of this mysterious doctor, and maybe it doesn\u2019t matter. But she is grateful. \u201cI know there were a lot of people who lost their lives during that time. 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