When Amy Yamaguchi awoke after a lung transplant surgery, she had trouble with her memory. She didn’t know she was married or that she had a baby.
Amy Yamaguchi met her daughter when the infant was five months old.
“Just to be home is a joy. Just sitting at the table with the family,” she said. “Now, we have an extra member. It’s been nice to get to be a mom.”On Dec. 1, 2020, the day she tested positive for COVID-19, Yamaguchi was nearly 36 weeks pregnant. She and her husband had been careful to wear face masks and follow safety measures, but at the time there was not yet a vaccine and the pandemic was cranking into what would become a deadly winter surge.
Doctors thought that the surgery would help Yamaguchi heal faster by freeing space for her lungs. It didn’t. Soon, Maren was sent home with her father and Yamaguchi was airlifted to Cedars-Sinai.About mid-January, while on life support at Cedars-Sinai, Yamaguchi began coming out of her coma. While Yamaguchi’s “sassy personality” was coming back, physical problems remained. A blood clot formed in her arm for one. And her lungs still weren’t working.
In April, Yamaguchi became the hospital’s first COVID patient to undergo a lung transplant. Nationally, Emerson said, more than 200 COVID patients have received lung transplants.“She was a totally healthy, normal, 35-year-old active woman,” Emerson said. “That’s why it’s important for people to get vaccinated. You may think that because you’re young you will be safe. But, unfortunately, I’ve seen a lot of people who are young and got really sick and died from Covid.
And she was nervous. She’d missed the initial mother-infant bonding. She worried over how her daughter would react.“But then I got to meet her and everything fell into place,” Yamaguchi said. “It sounds cliché, but it was like love at first sight.”
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