Humber River Hospital after spending nine weeks intubated, fighting COVID-19, he returned to thank the medical team that saved his life.“Want to say thank you for everybody taking care of me … thank you for everything,” he said.Seeing Castillo healthy is a huge morale boost for the front-line health-care workers who cared for him during the first wave of the pandemic.“The team is overwhelmed.
I have a nurse that stayed overnight just to see Mario. She took care of him and hearing Mario speak today, I had goosebumps,” said Cecile Marville-Williams, program director with responsibility for critical care, cardiology, respiratory and oncology.Marville-Williams lost her mother to COVID-19, so seeing Castillo thriving is even more meaningful. .