FOX 29's Jennifer Joyce shares his story. AMBLER, Pa. - The little things are the big things after spending 20 days alone in the hospital on a ventilator battling the monster that is COVID-19. "I got out all my important papers and put them on my desktop," Robert Calandra, 68, told FOX 29. "I thought I was dying." FULL COVERAGE: CORONAVIRUS He says he was playing a regular game of ice hockey one day and the next he couldn't get out of bed.
Calandra says a device called a pulse oximeter prompted his lifesaving care. Calandra's primary care physician doctor Mike Cirigliano recommended his family purchase the pulse oximeter, which showed his oxygen level sitting at a concerning 80 percent. "If Mike did not tell them to get that.