A nurse who had been in a coma for 45 days was cured in a "Christmas miracle" hours after her ventilators have been about to be turned off by her docs.
Monica Almeida had taken each her vaccines, but she examined optimistic and ended up being rushed to hospital, the place she went straight to the resuscitation room, The Solar reported.
The 37-year-old was taken to the ICU and positioned in a coma on November 16 together with her situation so extreme, her mother and father have been instructed to fly from Portugal to say their ultimate goodbyes.
She was simply 72 hours away from having her ventilator turned off when quick-thinking docs determined to provide her a big dose of the drug related to erectile dysfunction.
Inside simply days, her respiration improved and the extent of oxygen she wanted dropped by half.
The mum-of-two instructed the The Solar: " It was positively the Viagra that saved me. Inside 48 hours it opened up my airwaves and my lungs began to reply.
"If you think how the drug works, it expands your blood vessels. I have asthma and my air sacks needed a little help."
Following the experimental remedy, the specialist respiratory nurse from Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, made it dwelling for Christmas to rejoice together with her family members after almost two months caught in a hospital mattress.
Ms Almeida has now praised the artistic workers at Lincoln County Hospital for giving her Viagra and finally saving her life.
She stated: "I had somewhat joke with the guide after I got here spherical as a result of I knew him."
"He told me it was the Viagra, I laughed and thought he was joking, but he said 'no, really, you've had a large dose of Viagra'. It was my little Christmas miracle."
Ms Almeida, who can be asthmatic, is now on the street to restoration, however docs instructed her that if she had not obtained the primary and second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, she would have died.