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\"Paige
Paige Davis, an environmental services professional at UCHealth Memorial Hospital, shows her daughter, Candice, whose severe COVID-19 lead to limb amputation at a hospital in Pennsylvania. Photo courtesy Paige Davis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Paige Davis took a job 15 years ago as an environmental services professional at Memorial Hospital. She\u2019s cleaned offices and patient rooms, talking to people who are in beds and always trying to lift their spirits.<\/p>\n

Now, the person in the hospital bed – not in Colorado Springs but in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – is her daughter Candice. In early August, the 30-year-old flight attendant for Republic Airways<\/a> tested positive for COVID-19. Her brother tested positive too, though he had been vaccinated and only experienced cold-like symptoms and a loss of smell and taste.<\/p>\n

After two weeks in quarantine with COVID-19 symptoms, Candice said she was burning with fever and experiencing \u201cskipping heartbeats.\u2019\u2019 Candice was taken by ambulance and admitted to the hospital on Aug. 17 in critical condition.<\/p>\n

\"Candice
Candice Davis (left), with her mom, Paige Davis, and her brother, Starr. The photo was a gift to Paige Davis on Mother’s Day. Photo courtesy Paige Davis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

COVID-19, she said, had infected her heart. Her blood pressure plummeted. She was placed on a ventilator and in a medically-induced coma, then on an ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation)\u00a0machine. ECMO is essentially a set of lungs outside of the body attached to a pump.\u00a0 Blood is pulled from a vein in the neck; the ECMO machine has an oxygenator that removes carbon dioxide from the blood and replenishes it with oxygen. The oxygenated blood then flows back to the heart.<\/p>\n

COVID causes amputations<\/strong><\/h2>\n

After three weeks on ECMO, Candice woke to find her hands and her feet blackened.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeeing my arms and my feet super black, dead, they told me, \u2018We\u2019ve got to amputate your arms to keep you alive,\u2019\u2019\u2019 Candice said. \u201cYou have to do what you have to do.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Surgeons amputated one arm above the elbow, the other below the elbow. In the days that followed, surgeons also amputated half of her right foot and her left leg below the knee.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen they amputated my left leg, that\u2019s when I really started to get emotional,\u2019\u2019 Candice said. \u201cI am really sad about it.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

\"Paige
Paige Davis, an environmental services employee at UCHealth Memorial Hospital, shows her vaccine card after receiving her booster shot. Photo by Cary Vogrin, UCHealth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A visit from her mother<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The day after Candice was admitted to the hospital, Paige arrived at her bedside. She saw her daughter fighting for her life.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I got there, she had so much equipment and so much stuff on her. I was overwhelmed, I didn\u2019t know what to do. I just stood there. She didn\u2019t even know I was there,\u2019\u2019 Paige said.<\/p>\n

A strong woman who is no stranger to adversity, Paige and Candice were at one time homeless. They stayed in a shelter, where Paige said she slept with one eye open, one eye closed. Her son was in college at the time. She and Candice eventually found their way out of homelessness; with help from a social worker, Paige found the job at Memorial<\/a>, where her co-workers have rallied around her with support since learning about Candice.<\/p>\n

Candice graduated from high school, earned a bachelor\u2019s degree at Colorado State University and, two years ago, took a job as a flight attendant.<\/p>\n

Paige stayed in Philadelphia for six weeks, only to return to her job in Colorado Springs to see hospitals full of people suffering from COVID-19, many of them, like Candice, who were not vaccinated before being hospitalized. Paige has been fully vaccinated and recently received a booster shot.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer goal was to get the vaccination, but she just didn\u2019t get to it, so she wasn\u2019t vaccinated. Her brother got COVID at the same time, but he only lost his sense of smell and taste,\u2019\u2019 Paige said.\u00a0 \u201cI didn\u2019t think COVID could take limbs. I appreciate the ECMO machine because she would have died if she didn\u2019t have it, but to take limbs from a 30-year-old?\u00a0 That\u2019s why I advise everybody to get the shot.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Working in a hospital during a pandemic<\/h2>\n

In her years working in the hospital, Paige said she\u2019s never seen a plague like COVID-19.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve seen it, and it\u2019s not nice,\u2019\u2019 she said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s still here, and people are still sick and people are still passing. If they don\u2019t get the shot, I don\u2019t know what to say, because what I\u2019ve seen, it\u2019s not good at all. It\u2019s the scariest thing I\u2019ve seen since I\u2019ve been here.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just wish everybody would get the shot. \u00a0My thing is…what you got to lose?\u2019\u2019 (To learn more about getting a vaccine, click here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"Candice
Candice Davis in her hospital bed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after a severe case of COVID resulted in amputation. Photo: UCHealth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Candice said she expects to be released from the hospital in Pennsylvania in early December. She\u2019s been doing exercises and is getting fitted for prosthesis. A woman with strong faith, she said she turns to God for strength.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are more than our limbs and our physical outside that we see,\u2019\u2019 Candice said.<\/p>\n

After she leaves the hospital, she\u2019ll go to a physical rehabilitation facility to learn how to navigate her new world.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe apartment ain\u2019t gonna be suitable for Candice no more,\u2019\u2019 Paige said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to go through a whole lot because we\u2019re about to start therapy, hopefully. She\u2019s been in the bed for so long, since the 17th<\/sup> of August, she is still in the bed,\u2019\u2019 she said in late November. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a whole other train ride, but we\u2019re going to still keep going. We\u2019ve got to learn how to walk, how to use the muscles, and she has to do all that all over again.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Candice said that she\u2019s relied on her family and faith for strength.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it wasn\u2019t for my family and my faith, this would be detrimental. All Glory to the Lord,\u2019\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n

Her first goal is to get out of the hospital and move to a rehabilitation facility.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not a negative person, my goal is just being encouraged that this is going to be OK, to be encouraged that life is going to get back to normal, but it will be a little different.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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