An Okanagan woman who survived COVID-19, but only after going into a medically-induced coma, called it a harrowing ordeal. Irene Spicer of Kelowna believes she caught the virus while travelling overseas two months ago. “So the airport was packed.
It was absolutely packed, inside and out. There had to be thousands there.” Spicer said they were very careful while travelling, but they still somehow got sick.
And when she returned to Canada, she felt tired at first. “When you come back from a trip like that, you’re jet-lagged,” said Spicer. “I was tired, but that’s normal.” She said one morning, she went to the washroom, where she passed out after feeling “a bit off.” Spicer said she suffered a broken vertebrae from the fall, and that a