Retired police officer shares COVID-19 near-death experience

Retired police officer shares COVID-19 near-death experience

((adlib wrap)) police officer wants people to know... just how terrifying covid can be.

Jim green is "case number 25" out of more than 3- thousand in lane county.

He explained to kezi 9 news reporter emma jerome today... why he's lucky to be alive.

Emma jerome: "jim green is one of the lucky ones.

He had coronavirus - bad... but after 6 days on a ventilator and 6 more days in isolation at the hospital he's alive to tell the tale.

He and his wife laurie wanted to share what life is like for those who really suffer from who experience this nasty virus" jim was case number 25 in lane county -- getting symptoms a week after flying back to the states from jamaica on a work trip jim green: " and within a matter of days the physical effects that started to take place and frankly i didn't appreciate what those were" meaning - he didn't truly understand what was happening to his body for a while laurie: " he didn't have the typical symptoms -- he didn't have a cough at all" admitted to the hospital on april 2nd jim: " i would have laid in bed oblivious to what was going on, but laurie had the common sense to call my primary and it was quickly decided that i needed to get to the emergency room" from there -- things declined -- quickly jim: " she got me admitted -- and within an hour in the er -- my lungs failed" laurie: "so he went from being very sick to critically ill within less than 2 hours" jim: "had i not had laurie with me that particular night i would not have had the mindset or energy to have gotten out of bed and driven to the hospital or even called 9-1-1 so from my perspective she saved my life" although she played it humbly -- giving all the credit to the doctors and nurses at riverbend laurie: " i don't think any of us should gamble with how it's going to affect us" "coming up in the next hour -- hear more about jim's green's time in the hospital... and what he describes as his lowest point.

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