Jazmin Kirkland, a North Texas mom of three, spent more than a year in the hospital after being diagnosed with COVID-19. (Jazmin Kirkland)DALLAS - A North Texas mom of three is finally going home after spending more than a year in the hospital because of COVID-19.Jazmin Kirkland was hospitalized on Aug.
3, 2021. A few days later she was placed on a ventilator and a month after that needed ECMO treatments because the virus had attacked her heart and lungs.She never dreamed her diagnosis would result in 370 days away from her 2, 7 and 10-year-old children. "I am most looking forward to spending time at home with the kids, watching them play and grow.
I have missed them like crazy! They have been able to visit me often but there’s just no place like home to be with them," she said.Plano dad beats COVID-19 after 197 days in the hospitalJazmin Kirkland said she is looking forward to being home with her three children, ages 2, 7 and 10. (Jazmin Kirkland)And there were several moments during her hospitalization when it didn’t look like she’d ever go home."The toughest part of the whole journey was being rejected for lung transplant candidacy due to high levels of antibodies making it nearly impossible to match a potential donor.
At the time we thought a lung transplant was the only way forward to survive," she said.But Kirkland said she never gave up.