Rutland police officer John D. Songy is on a ventilator and in critical condition at St. Vincent Hospital after his body rejected coronavirus medication, remdesivir.
“It is with a heavy heart that I am posting that John is now in critical condition because of all the struggling he has done and all the medications he has received. He has now entered organ failure,” said Joanne. “The care team states there is nothing that could have been done differently.”
John has been fighting coronavirus since he and his wife Joanne Songy, a nurse, both tested positive on April 23.
Joanne overcame the virus quarantining at home. John, however, did not recover as quickly and was admitted to St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, around 1 a.m. Saturday, May 2, for shortness of breath.
On Tuesday, John received a plasma infusion as part of COVID-19 treatment as well as receiving remdesivir.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, announced that the drug remdesivir has proven itself to be promising in treating patients with COVID-19.
“[Remdesivir] has side effects. That is a chance that we had to take because there is no cure for Coronavirus,” said Joanne. “We took the risk to try to help him and his body rejected it.”
The doctors at the hospital chose to ventilate him on Saturday due to his difficulties breathing as well as his liver and kidneys failing.
“Because he’s been suffering so much with the breathing all week,” said Joanne. “They’ve been trying to keep him off the ventilator [because] that uses a lot of accessory muscles in the chest.”
Medical professionals are more reluctant to use ventilators for COVID-19 patients because once they are on them, a person’s lungs start to rely on aided breathing. This is partially due to a deconditioning of the chest muscles.
“It’s not that a ventilator isn’t good,” said Dr. Andrew Artenstein, the Baystate Health chief physician executive and chief academic officer in April. “Because obviously, if you can’t get enough oxygen, any other way the ventilator is lifesaving. The problem with the ventilator is it keeps you in the hospital longer.”
However, because of the severity of John’s condition the doctors had no choice. A medical professional herself, Joanne sees the severity of her husband’s infection more so than most partners would and understands that the ventilator is the best course of action.
“[I’m] looking at it from a clinical position and from a wife’s position,” said Joanne. “My husband is still fighting for his life.”
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