{"id":3432,"date":"2021-07-01T09:05:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T14:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prime.steerhealth.io\/?p=3432"},"modified":"2024-03-13T08:50:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T13:50:08","slug":"jeri-hall-a-story-of-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ehp.primehealthcare.com\/jeri-hall-a-story-of-survival\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeri Hall: A Story of Survival"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In spring of 2020, Jeri Hall was experiencing fever and respiratory symptoms. After a week, she was having trouble breathing, so she drove herself to\u00a0Monroe Hospital<\/a>. She was promptly admitted, put on oxygen, and after a week in the hospital, her care team made the decision to put her on a ventilator.<\/p>\n

That night, Jeri sent her daughter, Ronnie, a message, \u201cI\u2019m going on a vent. I love you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Because of COVID-19 visitor restrictions, Jeri\u2019s family was unable to enter the hospital to visit her. They improvised by visiting her window daily, standing outside, praying, talking to her, hoping that she would feel their presence. \u201cWe thought it would make her fight a little harder,\u201d said Ronnie.<\/p>\n

The team at Monroe closely monitored Jeri, experimenting with different treatments. At one point, her condition was such that Dr. Eric Trueblood, Pulmonologist and Critical Care Physician, was not sure she would make it through the night. \u201cWe wanted to give her every chance of survival and recovery that we could.\u201d said Dr. Trueblood. \u201cI remember telling the family that she only had a 1% chance of making it through the night.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI slept in the parking lot that night,\u201d said Ronnie. It\u2019s devastating for any daughter to learn that her mother only has a 1% chance to live. It was especially so for Ronnie whose father had passed away a month earlier.<\/p>\n

Miraculously, Jeri held on that night.<\/p>\n

Days later, when Dr. Trueblood took her off the ventilator, one of Jeri\u2019s nurses, Dawn, was in the room. Dawn said, \u201cTaking that tube out and waiting for her to have that spontaneous breath and to really be successful at that is always that moment where you take a deep breath. We were all at her bedside just rooting her on\u2026 It makes you really happy to be a nurse that day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jeri had spent 20 days on the ventilator.<\/p>\n

Every day Jeri continued to improve, with the help of her physicians, nurses, and physical therapists. Her friends and family continued to visit her at her window and call so they could keep updated on her progress and encourage her to keep fighting. When she left the hospital, 75 of Monroe Hospital\u2019s nurses, doctors, and staff lined the hallway, applauding as she was wheeled out.<\/p>\n

Jeri was overwhelmed with the care and support she had received during her stay at Monroe. \u201cTo know that there are so many people praying for you, reaching out, looking after my kids, and giving things up for me\u2026miracles happen.\u201d She said.<\/p>\n

Jeri\u2019s remarkable story was the center of a documentary called\u00a0Time to Heal<\/em>\u00a0filmed at Monroe Hospital about their experience with the COVID-19 pandemic. \u201cHer story is unique in that she was at a very small hospital and we didn\u2019t have much knowledge of COVID at the time. She was incredibly sick. We were using all the advanced techniques available, and her oxygen got down to dangerously low levels. Even at a small rural hospital we have all the tools needed to bring people through this.\u201d Said Dr Trueblood<\/p>\n

A year later, Jeri is back working on her farm with her family. New to her farm is a horse she named Monroe, after the hospital that saved her life. (Pictured in the photo above.) She is engaged and preparing for her upcoming wedding.<\/p>\n

One of the questions she has been frequently asked is, \u201cHow did you survive?\u201d Jeri replies, \u201cI had a wonderful doctor and staff, and I am a strong person. I have been through some trials in my life and overcome them. I\u2019m just a strong determined person.\u201d She says. \u201cIt\u2019s not my time to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

To watch\u00a0Time to Heal<\/em>\u00a0please visit\u00a0Monroe Hospital\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> In spring of 2020, Jeri Hall was experiencing fever and respiratory symptoms. After a week, she was having trouble breathing, so she drove herself to\u00a0Monroe Hospital. She was promptly admitted, put on oxygen, and after a week in the hospital, her care team made the decision to put her on a ventilator. That night, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehp.primehealthcare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehp.primehealthcare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehp.primehealthcare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehp.primehealthcare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehp.primehealthcare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3432"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ehp.primehealthcare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3439,"href":"https:\/\/ehp.primehealthcare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions\/3439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehp.primehealthcare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehp.primehealthcare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehp.primehealthcare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehp.primehealthcare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}