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For now, however, the 61-year-old Omaha, Nebraska, woman is happy to be doing a modified version of the vigorous calisthenics — which usually includes jumping up, squatting to the floor and kicking back into a pushup — with the help of a barbell mounted on a squat rack.
She couldn’t breathe, she couldn’t talk, ‘I know what could have been’She and her husband, Todd Fisher, who will mark their 40th wedding anniversary in January, told her story recently to inspire others who find themselves facing similar situations, whether due to injury or illness.
The couple suspect she was infected with West Nile during a bike ride, one of their favorite activities, on Labor Day at Omaha’s Flanagan Lake. It was hot, so she went down the bank and dangled her feet in the water for a few minutes during a break in the ride. She remembers scratching her ankle a lot afterward.
Her temperature measured 104.5 degrees Fahrenheit on their home thermometer. He gave her Tylenol to reduce the fever, but she couldn’t keep it down. The next morning, they went to see a nurse practitioner at her doctor's office. Fisher said doctors had been cautioning him that things would get worse before they got better. “And I thought, ‘Well, if this is as worse as worse gets, we dodged a huge bullet,’” he said.
There is no specific treatment for West Nile, he said, so the ICU team’s role was to provide supportive care. But the fact that Fisher became so ill, given her overall health, was somewhat surprising. About that time, he had several other patients who’d also become extremely ill as a result of West Nile. But they all had other health issues.
The 2023 tally included 90 neuroinvasive cases. Seventy-six people were hospitalized and nine died. West Nile cases generally begin increasing in mid- to late July and fall off by early to mid-October. Last year, however, there was a late jump in mid-September.He said he wasn’t surprised, however, to hear Fisher now is back to doing modified CrossFit workouts.
In mid-October, Fisher was transferred to Madonna, where therapists began the process of reawakening her muscles. Even moving her hand to lift the lightest object was incredibly hard, she said.
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