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Ruby Smith got her son Steve home for Christmas By Linda Waggener "The reunion with my son made our Christmas perfect," said Ruby Smith who was hospitalized on the same day, Halloween 2020, that both she and her son Steve were taken for emergency treatment and diagnosed with COVID-19. EMS service personnel decided that rather than take her to TJ Health Columbia, she was seriously ill enough that she needed to go straight to T.J. Samson Hospital in Glasgow. Later that same day, Steve was also being sent to T.J. Samson but there were no available rooms so he was taken to the Medical Center in Bowling Green. Ruby was home in three days with a six weeks recovery time before she would regain strength and be well enough to go back to her job at Burton Hardware. Steve had a much different outcome. The doctors think that Covid turned into pneumonia and affected his lungs so that he grew much worse and wound up staying in the hospital and then rehab for a total of 54 days, many of those days when he didn't know if he'd ever be home again. No one could visit Steve during all those weeks. His release was questioned. At one time doctors said that if he did go home he would do so with hospice care, that they had done all they could possibly do for him. Steve told his mother that in the night after those doctors' final words, he made his peace with his creator and the very next morning the doctors found that a test result had been miscalculated and that it looked like indeed he would be released. He came home, moving slowly but surely, on oxygen, with warnings of having very few encounters with others, but he made it just before Christmas day. The reunion was quiet with immediate family only but in a mood of jubilation. Ruby said, "It made our Christmas knowing he was home with his wife Angie. We all FaceTimed so that we were together even in our separate homes, it gives us great peace to know that he is home and we are so thankful." Steve was featured on WBKO TV and said of his experience, "It's just hard to explain, it just hits you all at once. One day I was doing pretty well. The next day I was fighting the battle. I couldn't get my breath. They actually gave me up for dead." Steve says at one point, he thought he wouldn’t make it, but a higher calling brought healing. Steve’s daughter Brandy Thompson said, “For him to come home is truly a miracle and without Jesus we know that it wouldn’t be possible. So we’re just utterly thankful and grateful.” Steve's sister Robin said, "We finally have our Steve back home where he belongs after 54 days of hospitalization and rehab. After being told there was no hope, Steve battled every single day to come back to us. With the grace of God, he was able to leave Sky Rehab to continue his story at home in Columbia. We are so thankful for all the well wishes and prayers that have certainly helped his battle to get this far. Columbia has come through once again to show their love for one of their own and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Please pray for his continued healing in the weeks to come and thank you for the prayers you have already sent up to get him thus far. We truly appreciate each and every one." This story was posted on 2020-12-28 08:13:05
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