‘Waiting for my time to die’: COVID-19 patients, families recount time spent in Regina ICUs Two days later, doctors diagnosed Richard with COVID-19 and put him in intensive care.Richard said he doesn’t remember much of the next 20 days as he was heavily sedated and intubated — “everything they could do to keep me alive.”Richard’s intubation tube was removed on Feb.
6 but it took time for him to wake up from the sedation.“It took him — when he started to wake up — a good week-and-a-half before he was alert,” Sandra said.Sandra said her husband was taken to Royal University Hospital (RUH) in Saskatoon on Feb.