A 35-year-old woman in Portland died Friday of COVID-19 while on the waiting list for a last resort treatment. Heather Greeley only showed minor symptoms during the first week of her infection, according to her fiancée Tyler Birkes, who also tested positive. When Greeley had trouble breathing for the first time, Birkes took her to the emergency room in mid-August, but doctors did not admit her because she showed no signs of pneumonia. Two days later, however, she could barely breathe and Birkes rushed her to the hospital. He said, “I made her go in there, she was sitting in the wheelchair and they admitted her and I rubbed her shoulders, I kissed the top of her head and I told her that I loved her and that she was the last once I saw her. ” Greeley was on the waiting list for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) treatment, a type of life support, when he succumbed to the virus. Birkes told local station KOIN, “Heather did everything right, she did everything she had to do and now she’s suffering because people didn’t do their part.”
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