Woman says she will get COVID-19 vaccine after bout with virus

WINCHESTER, Ky. (LEX 18)-- Nearly 3 weeks aft she was admitted to the infirmary with COVID-19, Wendy Moore, 53, is inactive struggling to breathe.

"It's scaring me," Moore said. "I'm starting to interest astir my wellness and astir what's going to happen."

Before her diagnosis, Moore was not disquieted astir contracting the virus. She had nary involvement successful getting vaccinated, either.

"I never, ever, ever permission my location but to spell to appointments," she said. "So the information that I caught it, we were conscionable successful shock."

Moore believes she whitethorn person contracted COVID-19 from 1 of her 4 grandchildren, with who she lives, on with her girl and son-in-law.

She said that her wellness rapidly deteriorated.

"I was conscionable sleeping each the clip and my oxygen level kept dropping," she recalled. "[My daughter] decided that I needed to spell to the hospital."

After she was admitted to Clark Regional Medical Center successful Kentucky, Moore was fixed a substance of medications, and astir importantly, was capable to debar being enactment connected a ventilator.

Moore thought that she was turning a country aft she was discharged from the hospital, but her breathing occupation returned.

"Now I request [my oxygen] again due to the fact that I'm starting to suffer my enactment again," she said.

While successful isolation, Moore has had a batch of clip to bespeak connected the past and deliberation astir the future. She wishes she had joined her girl and son-in-law successful getting vaccinated. When the microorganism dispersed done their home, they were the lone 2 who did not get sick.

"I decidedly was wrong," she said erstwhile asked astir the vaccine. "I decidedly americium going to instrumentality [the vaccine] now."