Mansfield Man Battles COVID-19 for Third Time
By: Allie Spillyards (MSN)
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A drive-by parade outside of Methodist Mansfield Medical Center last April was supposed to be Corey Ripe's happy ending. The 47-year-old was headed home after a week on a ventilator battling COVID-19.
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A 47-year-old man from Mansfield is back in the hospital a second time, battling a third round of COVID-19.
Doctors told his fiance, Jena Parris, he had a 50-50 chance at survival.
Flash forward to this past Saturday, and Parris was hit with a wave of deja vu when she came home to find Ripe struggling to breathe.
"I was numb a couple of days. I thought there is no way that this is happening a third time, there's just no way," said Parris.
Ripe, who beat the odds then, battled a milder case of the virus this January.
He was vaccinated in March.
Still, Saturday night, though he'd shown no prior symptoms, Parris knew it had to be COVID-19 again when she heard the fluid in his lungs.
She rushed him to the ER. And an hour later, Parris got a familiar call.
Ripe was intubated and waiting for an available ICU bed.
Parris said they don't know of any underlying conditions that would make Ripe more susceptible to the virus, but doctors are looking.
"They're baffled, to be honest," said Parris.
She said they do believe lung damage from the first go-round and pneumonia are playing a role in the severity this time. She said they also told her it could be worse.
Ripe's case is one of the less than 2% of vaccinated people who've been hospitalized with a breakthrough case of COVID-19, according to the CDC.
"I've had every doctor tell me as bad a shape as he's in, he said if he hadn't had the vaccine, he probably wouldn't be here."
That's providing some comfort for Parris, as is the ability to see Ripe via Facetime.
Still, she said not being able to be with him in person doesn't get easier.
Parris and her daughter tested negative for the virus each time.
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Corey is a mortgage banker who has had a rough year and recently became one of my DFW clients when he added another job to his resume.
My heart goes out to him and his family.
I see no need to make this political
Damn this is a sad story.................thanks for posting it SP
I hope he comes out of this okay.
Hopefully, he will pull through once again. There is a Suffolk County PD Sergeant my NYPD (ret) nephew has a a neighbor who is fighting his battle now. Fortunately, he is doing somewhat better.
But this sentence from the article struck me:
How many more vaccinated people will suffer the same fate as this virus continues it's mutations and re-infects those "recovered" but harmed and unknowingly vulnerable?
What a nightmare. So frustrating, I’m sure.
I know what it was like my second time (I tested positive last November but was asymptomatic. May have been a false positive) and I cannot imagine having to go through that again.................
Hopefully you, nor anyone else has to.
Just found out we were exposed to someone Saturday whose partner was hospitalized Monday.