As we read on the siepomaga.pl portal:

The struggle and drama that unfolded for almost half a year ended only halfway. Uncle Marian is fighting for his health! Rehabilitation is crucial at this point so that the strength lost during his illness can return. So far, he has managed to walk a few steps independently with a walker, which is still an enormous effort. Uncle lives on the fourth floor, without an elevator. He cannot even go outside and breathe fresh air. His isolation will continue until he is able to go away for rehabilitation.

For this to happen, money is needed. Rehabilitation may cost as much as PLN 90,000! These are enormous sums, which it is almost impossible to raise independently.

Therefore, on behalf of my aunt and uncle, I appeal to all people of good will for support. The miracle that the media buzzed about was not only waking up after a months-long coma. It was also my uncle’s enormous will to fight, the wisdom and work of the medical staff, and the prayers of friends and loved ones. I believe that with your help we will restore Uncle Marian’s health and strength! Please support us!

How can you help Mr. Marian?

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Let us recall. The whole story began in the autumn of last year. Mr. Marian, a 62-year-old resident of Bolesławiec, developed pneumonia. His condition worsened. His wife called an ambulance, and the 62-year-old was taken to our ZOZ. As it turned out, he was infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. His lungs were affected in 95 percent.

The Bolesławiec resident’s condition kept deteriorating. The man was transferred to intensive care. His lungs were already affected in 100 percent. “There was practically no healthy lung tissue,” Wojciech Hap, head of the general surgery department at the county hospital in Bolesławiec, said in the spring of that year. The patient was connected to a ventilator and kept in a medically induced coma.

Complications appeared, including a pneumothorax. Drainage was performed several times. But the problem kept returning. At the end of December, the Bolesławiec resident’s condition was critical; in January, Mr. Marian was transferred to a specialist hospital in Wrocław.

Later, back in Bolesławiec, a thoracostomy was performed. Only then did the 62-year-old’s condition begin to improve.

He was woken before Easter. He slowly began to recover, already in the general surgery department. Soon he would be transferred to a rehabilitation ward. “He went through hell,” W. Hap stated.

What did Mr. Marian do after such a long interruption in his life? He called his wife and invited her to the hospital. “They had not seen each other for almost half a year,” the head of surgery said. “It was an incredible moment for all of us.”

This is a huge success for Bolesławiec’s ZOZ. Everything indicates that after six months of torment, treatment is finally heading in the right direction, which means that Mr. Marian will not be bedridden and will be able to function independently. He no longer requires oxygen therapy. Of course, a long rehabilitation lies ahead of him.

“It was something terrible; I would not wish it on anyone,” said Mrs. Maria, the Bolesławiec resident’s wife, who throughout that time lived with the awareness that her husband could die at any moment. “I wondered: how did I get through it, how did I endure it?”

And she added:

I would very much like to thank the entire hospital team. My husband says that the medical team at the hospital in Bolesławiec is wonderful.

When Mr. Marian was woken from the coma and told that the holidays were approaching, he thought they meant November 11. He remembered nothing, did not know what had happened to him, and did not know where he was. He spent 144 days in intensive care. He was enormously grateful to the hospital staff, who fought for his life with such determination. And he stated:

I come from a generation that does not give up. You have to fight to the end.