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‘I’m scared’: Toronto COVID-19 survivor who defied odds updates recovery, expresses fear
COVID-19, sits and reflects on the past year.There are at least two months of 2020 he cannot remember.Castillo was attached to a ventilator for around nine weeks, his oxygen levels so low, doctors did not expect he would survive.He was the first COVID-19 patient to be intubated in the intensive care unit at Humber River Hospital. ‘This is my second chance’ — COVID-19 survivor who defied odds recovering in rehab centre “Slowly, slowly it’s more better now,” he said with a smile on his face, from the couch in his living room where he sits beside his wife Maricar Pagulayan.“I remember my hands (didn’t) move… Now I start to move,” he added, gesturing with his left hand.Castillo is getting stronger every day.