Salt Lake City man was hospitalized for eight months, at times on the brink of death
After 223 days in the hospital with COVID-19, a Salt Lake City man has finally returned home.
Thomas Kearl, 59, started getting sick in early January after a family gathering.
Within a few days, he had a 105-degree fever, and his wife and son rushed him to the hospital. It began the most painful eight months he'd ever experienced. He almost lost his life several times. He says he had no underlying health conditions that made him more susceptible to the coronavirus, and he was hospitalized before he was eligible for a vaccine.
But Kearl says his faith, family and the care of hospital workers helped him survive.
"And through the process, the nurses and my family told me that I coded out, and that's code language for, I died. I didn't want to die. I have too much to live for. I love my family, I love my children, I love my three grandkids. So I kept fighting, and thanks to the skill, the education, training of the wonderful health professionals, they brought me back," Kearl said Thursday, just over a week after returning home from Intermountain Medical Center in Murray.
He said he had "incredible" spiritual experiences that he describes as being "on the other side of the veil."
"And it gave me the courage to keep fighting," Kearl said.
Now, Kearl faces a difficult recovery, but one he says he's grateful to get to experience.
This story will be updated.
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