2024-01-22 18:17:23
The return from the trip
As life changes, Lucie, a former export executive, devotes herself to dance, lives with her three children, and enjoys life to the fullest. In 2023, a few days following returning from a trip to her partner’s country of origin, Gabon, she does not feel well. On March 17, I had vagal discomfort, I had a flu-like illness. I’m thinking regarding Covid. During the night, at the second feeling of illness, I called 15, forgetting to specify that I was returning from Africa. The regulator is therefore not worried, indicates this resident of Blain, north of Loire-Atlantique, the next day, I went to see my doctor but I might not get up, I was in a state of exhaustion. My blood pressure is then at 7. Head to the emergency room in Saint-Nazaire. “My feet were extremely cold as if I had stood in an icy river in the mountains. I have been given numerous tests: Ebola, Covid, etc.”
Resuscitation
Lucie is transferred to intensive care. She learns that she has severe malaria. The kidneys and liver are affected. It’s soon the lungs’ turn. And I am told that if it reaches the brain, it is death…. I don’t believe it, I’m in a state of astonishment.”
She is always very cold. “The blood began to drain from the feet and hands. I understood it followingwards. As I had a high fever, they also put me on ice packs. It was very hard.”
The coma
Then, Lucie was in a coma for regarding a week. They told me they were going to put me to sleep…
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