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Sudbury COVID patient frustrated with protesters, pleads with residents to follow public health advice

Mike Landry is out of the ICU, but not out of the woods yet
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Michel Landry is seen with is wife, Donna. They both contracted COVID-19, but it sent Michel Landry to the critical care ICU at Health Sciences North. (Supplied)

While the rest of Greater Sudbury is enjoying a long Easter weekend, one resident will spend it with needles in his stomach and staying away from his family as he continues to recover from the effects of COVID-19.

Mike Landry is now out of the intensive care unit at Health Sciences North. He was admitted on March 13.

“They have finished with the antiviral and steroid treatment,” he told Sudbury.com this week. “Did it work? I guess I can say I thank God I didn’t need to be intubated and put on a mechanical ventilator.”

Landry said his blood gas analysis results are low, and he has become very discouraged as the numbers are not going up enough to keep him stable when they lower his oxygen. 

“The doctors and nurses are doing their very best, and I'm fighting as much as I can, but I'm getting overwhelmed with my thoughts,” said Landry. “If I didn’t have so many people praying and supporting me and my family, this would be even darker than what it is now.”

Landry’s wife and daughter also had COVID-19 and self-isolated at home. His daughter has fully recovered from her symptoms, but his wife continues to have low blood pressure.

Doctors added a new medication to assist with his breathing, along with the five litres of oxygen to allow him to breathe normally. 

His health-care team continues to be a bright spot in an otherwise dark time for him, he said.

“I can see it on the nurses’ faces that they care about my recovery here on the sixth floor,” Landry said. “They are kind, informative and compassionate. They answer my questions as best they can. They give me comfort. The doctors are working diligently, but are taking their time to allow for hopefully a full recovery.”

Landry said he was disappointed about the group of Sudburians who are taking part in protests against pandemic restrictions.

“It hurt me when I found out,” he said. “I'm here, very sick, alone, scared, and wishing I can be with my family, and here are people who still believe this is a hoax, a conspiracy or a government trying to seize control. I can assure you it is not.”

A religious man, Landry said God’s greatest commandment was to love one another, and he encourages Sudburians to do just that.

“Please love one another, enough to wear the mask, to limit your outings in the stores and public,” said Landry. “Call your friends rather than visiting them for now. We all think we are invincible until we find out otherwise.”


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