After a two-month battle with COVID-19, a Yoakum grandmother who additionally was the primary pandemic affected person to be hospitalized in Victoria County obtained a devastating setback.
On Could 29, physicians amputated the suitable leg of Lydia Martinez, 76, due to problems stemming from a medication prescribed to assist her battle the brand new coronavirus, mentioned the lady’s daughter, Martha Martinez, 51.
Lydia Martinez
“I am unable to even discover the suitable phrases to explain what we’re going via,” the daughter mentioned Friday.
After receiving a medication to help her battle with COVID-19, Lydia Martinez’s ft started to show black due to blood circulation issues, her daughter mentioned.
To forestall the unfold of an an infection, physicians eliminated her proper leg just under the knee and several other toes on her left leg.
Lydia, who doesn’t endure from comorbidities, her daughter mentioned, additionally continues to battle COVID-19 after not too long ago testing optimistic once more.
“Mother has already had an extended highway, and we do not know the way for much longer it is going to get,” Martinez mentioned.
In line with DeTar Hospital, Lydia Martinez was the primary COVID-19 affected person to be hospitalized with the illness in Victoria County.
DeTar Hospital says Lydia Martinez was the primary COVID-19 affected person to be hospitalized in Victoria County.
Two different of her members of the family who have been residing with Lydia Martinez additionally got here down with the illness. These members of the family have recovered.
“That month I used to be going loopy not understanding if I am fixing to free three members of the family,” Martinez mentioned.
At the very least 61 persons are thought to have contracted the brand new coronavirus in reference to these outbreaks, a county official mentioned.
The PAM North outbreak is assumed to have contaminated 41 individuals, and 17 persons are thought to have caught the illness via the out break at PAM Southeast.
Rising up, Lydia Martinez had typically spoken to her three daughters concerning the significance of exhausting work.
So regardless of her years, she insisted on working even in her 70s, Martinez mentioned, recalling her mom’s recommendation.
“Women if you wish to have something in life, it’s a must to work for it,” Martinez mentioned about that recommendation. “Nobody goes to provide you something on this life. The one factor they will provide you with is difficult time.”
Whereas working at PAM’s north facility as a housekeeper, Lydia Martinez was offered a disposable masks that she was pressured to make use of for 2 weeks, her daughter mentioned.
That is why Martinez mentioned she blames PAM for her mom’s sickness.
“The underside line is she by no means would have gotten contaminated if PAM had protected their staff,” Martinez mentioned, including, “They beautiful a lot despatched her into the fireplace with out something.”
PAM officers responded to that criticism in a written assertion Friday, saying they’d made the security of sufferers and staff a prime precedence.
In addition they mentioned they’d offered adequate private protecting gear to staff in accordance with steering from the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention.
“Any suggestion that our ranges of PPE have been insufficient is inaccurate and, in actual fact, we have been in a position to provide the County of Victoria with 30,000 surgical masks to be used by residents,” in line with the corporate’s assertion. “With the unfold of the virus, together with unfold locally, because the CDC has acknowledged, it’s merely not attainable to establish the place a person contracted COVID-19.”
Martinez mentioned she additionally had questions concerning the necessity to amputate her mom’s leg and toes in a big half as a result of she skilled an analogous medical complication as a baby.
When Martinez was 13, physicians recognized her with Ewing’s sarcoma, a most cancers that types inside bones and mushy tissues, saying she may not stay to the age of 14.
After struggling nerve injury in her leg due to that most cancers, Martinez’s leg started to show black – simply as her mom’s would many years later.
And like in her mom’s case, physicians wished to amputate Martinez’s leg, she mentioned.
“They instructed me I used to be by no means going to stroll,” Martinez mentioned.
For about two years as Martinez remained within the hospital, hr mom stop her job so she may very well be by her daughter’s facet.
Throughout that point, Lydia Martinez massaged the injured flesh of her daughter’s leg, which she attributed to saving it.
In the long run, the most cancers receded and Martinez was in a position to preserve her life and limb.
“I am 51 years-old now, and so they instructed me I used to be not going to see my 14th birthday,” Martinez mentioned. “You can’t inform me they may do something for my mother’s leg. I do not consider it.”
DeTar Hospital representatives didn’t reply to requests for remark about why Lydia Martinez’s leg was amputated.
Regardless of the amputations, Martinez mentioned her mom is recovering properly regardless of being positioned on a feeding tube, shedding important weight and typically performing confused.
In latest days, Martinez mentioned her mom has began talking within the current tense about her father who died about 20 years in the past.
Aside from these difficulties, Martinez mentioned her mom’s indomitable and cheerful spirit has remained.
Whereas her household considers long run modifications similar to wheelchair ramps at her house, Martinez thinks her mom will, ultimately, get the higher of her medical points.
In any case, Lydia Martinez has by no means been one to stop, irrespective of how exhausting the longer term could seem, her daughter mentioned.
“Mother is a fighter,” Martinez mentioned. “She does not know the way to surrender.”
Lavaca County
One other Lavaca County resident has examined optimistic for COVID-19, officers mentioned on Friday.
The affected person, a resident of Shiner is believed to have contracted the virus throughout in-state journey outdoors of the county, in line with a information launch from Lavaca County Emergency Administration Coordinator Egon Barthels.
State well being officers wouldn’t verify the age, gender or every other details about the affected person, he mentioned.
As of Friday, the county has had 19 confirmed COVID-19 circumstances. Of these, one died and eight have been labeled as recovered by the state.
Wharton County
4 extra Wharton County residents have been confirmed to have COVID-19 on Friday, county officers mentioned.
The contaminated residents embrace a Wharton man between the age of 50 and 60, a Hungerford lady between the age of 20 and 30, in addition to two El Campo residents whose ages and genders have been unavailable.
Officers are not sure how three of these individuals contracted the virus.
A fourth, unspecified particular person, is assumed to have caught the illness from a member of the family.
The brand new confirmed circumstances convey the county’s complete variety of individuals contaminated with the brand new coronavirus to 73.
Of these, 38 individuals have recovered. One particular person has died.
No new recoveries have been reported Friday.
COVID-19 circumstances by county
| County | Whole | Recoveries | Deaths |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calhoun | 41 | 37 | 3 |
| Goliad | 7 | 5 | 0 |
| DeWitt | 18 | 15 | 1 |
| Jackson | 19 | 16 | 1 |
| Lavaca | 18 | 7 | 1 |
| Matagorda | 71 | 46 | 5 |
| Refugio | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Victoria | 171 | 145 | 7 |
| Wharton | 73 | 38 | 1 |
| 9-County complete | 421 | 312 | 19 |
| •Editor’s notice: These counts are up to date every day. |
New circumstances weren’t reported Friday in Calhoun, DeWitt, Goliad, Jackson, Matagorda and Refugio counties.