Mother recalls 22-year-old daughter's final hours after she dies from COVID-19

For healthcare workers, COVID-19 Infections and decease rates crossed the state are staggering.

According to the latest figures from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, the wide confirmed cases is implicit 1.1 million, and much than 22,000 person died crossed the authorities since the microorganism was archetypal detected successful Michigan backmost successful March of past year.

Doctors present accidental immoderate COVID-19 lawsuit is inactive excessively galore and adjacent if Michigan has a debased mortality complaint successful comparison, conscionable inquire idiosyncratic who has mislaid a loved one.

"Even though I cognize she was sedated some my girl and I thought she smiled. Because adjacent though each of that erstwhile she knew we were determination present grin is what I volition ever remember," says Laurel Langmeyer.

A registered dietician astatine Beaumont hospital, Laurel Langmeyer says her girl Haley had a property that would brighten up the room.

"She loved to marque radical blessed and she loved to marque radical smile, she was a theatre kid truthful she loved to sing and dance," says Laurel Langmeyer.

Since Hayley was lone 22-year-old and had nary comorbidities, Lauren ne'er thought things would crook for the worse. One of Hayley’s respiratory therapists, Becky Humble says her information conscionable kept deteriorating.

"We were breathing for her, she was precise swollen.. connected a batch of medications and IVs to prolong her life," says Becky Humble.

Haley was transferred to U of M infirmary for further attraction and aft battling with the microorganism for weeks. Haley died connected May 12, 2021.

Becky says she volition ne'er hide Hayley on with each the different COVID-19 patients that person died astatine the hospital. In fact, it has taken a toll connected healthcare workers, immoderate adjacent suffering from PTSD.

"We combat truthful hard to get them to constituent to being steadfast and erstwhile each our efforts don’t supply the means of surviving it's hard to accidental goodbye," says Becky Humble.

As for Lauren, she volition ever privation that she could speech to Haley 1 past time.

"How overmuch she is missed by truthful galore people. And however overmuch she was loved and the quality she has made successful truthful galore radical that I cognize that person gotten the vaccine oregon made much of an effort to enactment harmless due to the fact that of her," says Laurel Langmeyer.

As a healthcare professional, Laurel is encouraging radical to instrumentality the vaccine, adjacent if the mortality complaint from the microorganism is low.