{"id":38106,"date":"2020-07-31T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/after-barely-surviving-covid-19-mother-now-doesnt-recognize-newborn\/"},"modified":"2020-07-31T19:03:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T16:03:00","slug":"after-barely-surviving-covid-19-mother-now-doesnt-recognize-newborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/after-barely-surviving-covid-19-mother-now-doesnt-recognize-newborn\/","title":{"rendered":"#After barely surviving COVID-19, mother now doesn\u2019t recognize newborn"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#After barely surviving COVID-19, mother now doesn\u2019t recognize newborn<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Surviving the coronavirus was just the start of the fight for Sylvia LeRoy.<\/p>\n

The Brooklyn nurse was pregnant with her second child when she tested positive for the devastating disease in March. Today, against all odds, she\u2019s alive and her baby girl is healthy \u2014 but after spending months clinging to life, LeRoy is still bedridden and can hardly speak.<\/p>\n

Worst of all, she has no memory of even being pregnant with her now 3-month-old, Esther, due to the brain injury she suffered in the middle of the monthslong medical nightmare.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe tell her, \u2018Sylvia, you were ill, you had your baby, but you did really good \u2014 do you remember?\u2019 And she shakes her head,\u201d LeRoy\u2019s sister, 41-year-old Shirley Licin, told The Post.<\/p>\n

But even getting LeRoy, 35, to the point where she could communicate required a series<\/a> of miracles that her family remains grateful for, \u201cconsidering what she\u2019s been through and considering what other families have lost to this disease,\u201d Licin said. \u201cI\u2019m mourning the loss of the sister I had, but I still have her.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Post first shared LeRoy\u2019s story back in April, when she was only just beginning to emerge from a vegetative state and in need of expensive, specialized care. As a result of the story and the support that followed, the family raised nearly $1 million on a GoFundMe page.<\/p>\n

Licin said the money made the difference between her sister wasting away in a nursing home and now with the help of expert care, being home, with the hope of one day holding her daughter and telling her, \u201cI love you.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sylvia LeRoy with her husband, Jeffry, and their son, Jeremiah.<\/span> Courtesy of the LeRoy family<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIt was a very dark, dark time and we still don\u2019t know all of her outcomes,\u201d Licin said through tears. \u201cBut her trajectory is so different now. What we\u2019re seeing today is so vastly wonderful.\u201d<\/p>\n

On March 27, LeRoy was admitted to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center in Brownsville \u2014 where she worked as a labor and delivery nurse, and where she\u2019d given birth to her first child, Jeremiah, nearly three years ago. It\u2019s also where she likely picked up COVID-19. She tested positive for the virus and was transferred to Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, where she was placed on a ventilator.<\/p>\n

On April 9, doctors were able to remove the ventilator. But the hardest part was yet to come. Three days later, she suddenly went into cardiac arrest \u2014 doctors suspect that the thick, heavy fluids in her lungs \u2014 a consequence of COVID-19 \u2014 may have played a role.<\/p>\n

She spent eight minutes without a heartbeat. Then, she was rushed to the delivery room.<\/p>\n

Doctors delivered Esther at just 30 weeks. But the amount of time spent without oxygen left LeRoy with catastrophic brain damage, impacting everything from her motor function to her short-term memory.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just felt like it was the cruelest game<\/a> life had ever played on me,\u201d Licin said. \u201cWe were celebrating that she had made it, that her baby had made it. But then she went into cardiac arrest.\u201d<\/p>\n

As she slowly began to awaken from a vegetative state, her family could only visit her through video calls, due to the threat of spreading the virus in the hospital.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t tell you how many weeks we spent over video calling out her name,\u201d Licin said. \u201cBut she couldn\u2019t hear us \u2014 she wasn\u2019t there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite a grim prognosis from doctors initially, LeRoy was able to enter a rehabilitation facility in Philadelphia, where she received occupational, physical and speech therapy \u2014 care she wouldn\u2019t have been covered for under her insurance or workers\u2019 compensation, Licin said.<\/p>\n

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Sylvia LeRoy\u2019s husband, Jeffry, and their son, Jeremiah.<\/span>Annie Wermiel\/NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Thursday last week, LeRoy finally came home. She was moved into her sister\u2019s home, where her husband, Jeffry, and their son, Jeremiah, are also staying with Licin\u2019s three young daughters and husband. Licin is caring for Esther.<\/p>\n

LeRoy can now lift her hands up, communicate with \u201cyes\u201d or \u201cno\u201d responses to questions, and give her family the same smirk she was known for before the tragedy struck.<\/p>\n

Every day, her family reminds her what day it is, and that she\u2019s home with her loving family \u2014 experts say the constant reinforcement can help to restore her short-term memory, Licin said.<\/p>\n

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Baby Esther.<\/span>Courtesy of the LeRoy family<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As for Esther, who was born at just 3.5 pounds, she now weighs 10 pounds and is a \u201cfeisty, healthy, perfect baby,\u201d Licin said. Recently, LeRoy used her newfound arm strength to touch her daughter\u2019s face for the first time.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s gotta have her babies around her, it encourages her to do more,\u201d Licin said. \u201cThey have a big important role to play in her life.\u201d<\/p>\n

The LeRoy family believes that the current amount of money they\u2019ve raised should be able to cover care costs for the next few months: \u201cInsurance only covers six weeks of therapy,\u201d Licin said.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s gonna need several more months of that, just to hold herself up in a wheelchair,\u201d let alone medical supplies, from adult diapers to equipment that can lift her out of bed.\u00a0But it\u2019s further than she could have gotten without the tens of thousands of supporters who helped her recover, said Licin.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s still hope for Sylvia \u2014 every day we see changes,\u201d she said. \u201cShe just needs a fighting chance.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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