A Texas father who staged a local protest against pandemic restrictions and warrants is fighting for his life with covid while doctors tell his family his chances of recovery are “minimal,” according to his pregnant wife .
Caleb Wallace, 30, has been unconscious, ventilated and very sedated in the ICU at Shannon Medical Center in San Angelo since Aug. 8 after being hospitalized for the first time on July 30.
When he began experiencing symptoms of the virus just four days before his hospitalization, he refused to get tested instead of being treated to a cocktail of vitamin C, zinc, aspirin and ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug some have taken falsely as cash. treatment.
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Caleb was very reluctant to seek professional medical help, but “every time he started coughing, it became a coughing fit, and then that would give him full breath,” said his pregnant wife, Jessica Wallace. San Angelo Standard-Times.
Caleb Wallace, 30, is one of the founders of ‘Freedom Defenders’, a local San Angelo group that fights coveted restrictions, mandates of masks and vaccines.
Wallace has been unconscious, ventilated and very sedated in the ICU of Shannon Medical Center in San Angelo since August 8
On Wednesday, his wife Jessica Wallace posted a “discouraging update” on his condition on Facebook writing that doctors “have run out of options for him and asked him if he would consent not to be resuscitated.”
It was so hard. I didn’t want to see any doctors, because I didn’t want to be part of the statistics with COVID tests. ”
On Saturday, August 21, Caleb will have spent more than 12 days on a fan.
Jessica posted a heartbreaking update on her Facebook page on Wednesday: “She’s not doing well. She’s not in our favor, her lungs are stiff due to fibrosis. They called and said her options were exhausted and “They asked me if I would allow them not to resuscitate me. And it would depend on us when they stopped treating us.”
My heart can’t. I can’t imagine my life without him. Sorry if I don’t answer any calls, text or messages, I’m just broken. ‘
A few weeks before he was hospitalized, Caleb helped organize the “Freedom Rally,” which was announced as a protest for “the government to control our lives.” The father of three, with another on the way next month, is one of the founders of the ‘Freedom Defenders’, a local San Angelo group fighting the ‘COVID-19 tyranny’.
The group actively fought the restrictions coveted by an “open Texas” and opposed masks and vaccines. As one of the founding leaders, along with Coco Simpson, he offered interviews questioning public health measures and scientific findings and organized demonstrations and protests against coveted restrictions.
In an open letter written to the San Angelo Independent School District on April 10, Wallace condemned the closures and mask warrants. He falsely claimed that there is “little evidence that the masks worked for anyone.”
“What have been the benefits of blockages and masking? I tell you there is ZERO advantage in this continued practice.”
He ended the letter by demanding that the school district “immediately terminate ALL COVID-related policies.”
The Wallace family has been calling Caleb on FaceTime every night for the past three weeks. Caleb can’t answer because he’s been unconscious for more than two weeks
On Saturday, August 21, Caleb will have spent more than 12 days on a fan
The family is expecting their fourth child, Emsley Jean Wallace, on Sept. 27. Jessica has created a GoFundMe page to raise money for advertising medical bills that, as a home stay, she cannot cover.
In a promotional video for the group posted to crooksandliars.com in October, Caleb explains what the “freedom advocates” represent: “We’re fighting for people to work. We’re fighting for people to stand up. We’re fighting for the people start talking to their neighbors and have conversations instead of stopping or looking at the phones all day.We start opening up to each other.
‘If we don’t start doing something now. We will lose much more than we negotiated.
Unfortunately, it now looks like Caleb might be the one losing Jessica. He described his chances of recovery as “reduced to none” without advanced medial care and has created a GoFundMe page to cover Caleb’s home and medical bills.
The stay at home awaits the couple’s fourth child on September 27th.
‘I need help for girls with mortgages, water, electricity and basic necessities. Everything helps right now. I try to prepare for this month and the next.
“Being so far away during pregnancy I can’t get a job and after the birth I will need a few weeks to recover.”
The family has been calling Caleb on FaceTime every night for the past three weeks, but right now Caleb can’t answer his young women.
The girls tell Caleb how he spent his day, how much they love him and miss him, and how they want him home.
“Keep fighting, Dad,” the girls told their sick father Thursday during the video chat, according to the Standard-Times. ‘We miss you.’
Texas joined a growing list of states that record a record number of COVID-19 patients hospitalized in a wave that overwhelms doctors and nurses and affects more children.
Intensive care units across the country are full of extremely covid patients like Caleb.
The same day, Jessica posted the Facebook update on the state of Caleb, Texas reported more covid patients in her hospitals than at any other time since the pandemic began, 14,255 and 2,074, respectively, according to Department data of Health and Human Services of the USA.
Texas has experienced an increase in COVID-19 cases along with the country as the highly contagious Delta variant continues to spread
Texas joined a growing list of states that reported a record number of COVID-19 patients hospitalized in a wave that overwhelms hospitals and affects more children.