Clay County partner, other half lastly reunited after both contracted COVID-19

CLAY COUNTY, Fla.— For the very first time in 47 days, Noah Battle Sr. will spend the night at home with his partner after he was launched from the healthcare facility on Friday.

” I am headed house,” Battle Sr. said. “I get to put my hands on my beautiful partner and that’s the most amazing part of all this, being able to hug her and just touch her.”

Fight, a Marine Corps veteran and postal worker for 35 years, evaluated favorable for COVID-19 on March 13 and was the very first recorded case in Clay County. His other half Patricia Fight, who likewise evaluated favorable in March, brought him home from the hospital on Friday.

For the previous numerous weeks, his body has been battling COVID-19

” I am a really healthy person,” Noah Fight said. “I do not capture flus, I never ever had a cold that I can remember, no pneumonia, I am not acquainted with fevers, it was the fever that began. An anorexia nervosa, all I wanted to do was beverage water.”

Patricia Fight recalls the moment she understood something was seriously incorrect.

” I took his temperature level, which at the time was, 103.4,” she said. “I got home on March 7, Saturday, and immediately he said, ‘I require to go to the ER.'”

His condition decreased quickly.

He was checked at an Orange Park health center on March13 When he was intubated, it came back favorable. At that point he had a breathing tube in and he was placed into a medically caused coma in the ICU.

The next early morning, Patricia Battle began feeling weird.

” It seemed like my face had lava on it, my face was just hot,” she stated. “It was simply my face. I rapidly took my temp, it was 101.8.”

Patricia Battle also evaluated positive for novel coronavirus. She was hospitalized from March 17 up until March 23.

” I was on the 3rd floor, Noah was on the 5th flooring. It was throughout the time I remained in the healthcare facility, I got a call from the medical professional to do the DNR. I was one flooring far from my spouse and I couldn’t get to him and I have to let him go,” she said. “That was the hardest part, simply not being able to see him.”

She wasn’t sure if her partner would make it through.

” I needed to think back to a time when Noah informed me he never wished to be on life assistance,” Patricia Battle stated. “He said, ‘If God is calling me home, that’s where I wish to be, which’s where you ought to want me to be.'”

Patricia stated she hoped and her prayers were answered. Now Noah is home recovering and states he feels fantastic.

” I am strolling with a walker,” he stated. “I am finding out how to walk again after being on my back for so long. I lost a great deal of muscle mass. I lost 47 pounds.”

According to the Florida Department of Health, Noah had contact with a confirmed COVID-19 case.