A San Jose hospital has welcomed their longest hospitalized coronavirus patient to outpatient rehab.
Noah Davis, a 31-year-old from Willow Glen, spent more than nine months hospitalized at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center battling COVID-19. He was given a warm welcome on Tuesday when he wheeled off a van into the center's rehab facility, marking a major step of progress in his journey to recovery.
Davis remembers waking up from his medically induced coma. "It felt like I was just waking up as if I'd went to bed the day before," he told KCBS Radio. "It wasn't weird, it wasn't shocking or anything at first, but hearing the date was. I was like, 'wait what? It's April? It was just February.'"
When he originally fell sick, Davis tried to push through, but over the counter medications didn’t cut it and by the time he got to the hospital, his blood oxygenation level was 65.
"It's life threatening. You can't live or survive at an oxygen level like that," Dr. Clifford Wang, Chair of the Department of Medicine, said. Wang credited Davis' survival to his will to live and modern medicine.
Davis still has nerve pain, sleeps in a hospital bed at home and uses oxygen to sleep. He continues to make progress, but said he will never take walking or breathing for granted again.
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