Oxygen at 63: Holly Porter’s 70-Day COVID ICU Survival & Near-Death Story

About this episode

Holly Porter shares her harrowing 70-day battle with COVID-19 in the ICU, detailing her near-death experience and the profound impact it had on her life.

Send us Fan Mail She thought it was the flu. Then she woke up with a gut-level warning that would not let go: get to the hospital now. Holly Porter’s oxygen was at 63, her organs were shutting down, and what followed was a 70-day fight through COVID, ICU care, intubations, a tracheotomy, sepsis, and the kind of medical uncertainty that changes a person forever. In this powerful episode of Women Like Me Stories & Business, Holly walks us through the disorienting reality of losing her sen...

People in this episode

Host: Julie Fairhurst

Guest: Holly Porter

Topics covered

• COVID-19
• ICU care
• survival story
• health crisis
• medical uncertainty

Keywords

• COVID-19
• ICU
• survival
• health
• tracheotomy
• sepsis
• medical journey

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