Ahmad Ayyad is a citizen of Washington DC, United States, who managed to recover from the coronavirus and who decided to publish before and after images of his body, to raise awareness in society about the severity of the disease that plagues the world.
The 40-year-old man kept fit as he competed in obstacle courses and participated in basketball and boxing classes.
However, the Covid-19 Almost ends his life: After 25 days in an induced coma, Ahmad lost 27 kilos and suffered damage to his heart and lungs.
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“You think it is an exaggerated flu and you will not get it,” the protagonist told the media. WMAR 2 News.
However, the coronavirus changed him radically and when he woke up from the coma he saw that his body was different: “I was basically paralyzed, I couldn’t move. All my muscles were gone.”
In addition, Ahmad had to overcome a therapy to recover: “Speech therapy, because he could not speak. Social therapy, since I had to relearn how to swallow. And physical therapy to wake up my body. I had difficulty breathing because my lungs were damaged , my heart was damaged. “
After overcoming it, by June Ayyad managed to recover about 20 kilograms and takes the opportunity to send a message to those who do not wear face masks during the coronavirus pandemic: “I did it and I survived, and I am still terrified,” he told the CNN.
“I am very concerned to see people take this lightly,” he added.
Dr. Natalie West, a pulmonary and critical care physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital, who treated Ahmad Ayyad, says that this patient’s case opened his eyes: “He is a very athletic individual and he is young, so the first thing I thought was: ‘If this can happen to him and he’s so sick, it can happen to anyone.’ “
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