• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Home
  • WHAT’S ON FOX
  • ABOUT
    • Meet Our Team
      • Our Journalists
      • Job Openings
      • Sales & Programming
    • Contact WSFX
      • Sales & Programming
  • Welcome Home

Fox Wilmington WSFX-TV

Wilmington, NC | Local news Weather and Sports

  • Local News
    • Unsung Heroes
      • Nominate an Unsung Hero
  • Local Weather
  • National
  • Sports
    • Panthers 2023 Game Schedule
    • Carolina Panthers
    • High School Football
  • Politics
    • NC Voter Information
  • Health
  • Weller’s Wheels
  • MORE…
    • What’s on TV?
    • Technology
    • Science
    • Lifestyle
    • What’s Happening Wilmington

Woman pregnant with twins survives COVID-19 after 7 weeks in hospital, special therapy

January 20, 2021 By WECT

By KMPH Staff | January 20, 2021 at 4:32 AM EST – Updated January 20 at 4:32 AM

FRESNO, Calif. (KMPH) – A California woman pregnant with twins is recovering at home after she contracted COVID-19 and spent seven weeks in the hospital.

Dallas Selling’s case of COVID-19 was so bad she ended up on a breathing tube and ventilator at Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno, California, after she started feeling sick around Thanksgiving. But it wasn’t enough.

Dallas Selling, who is pregnant with twin girls, spent seven weeks in the hospital after she contracted COVID-19 around Thanksgiving. She hopes to not return until the twins are due in late April.

Dallas Selling, who is pregnant with twin girls, spent seven weeks in the hospital after she contracted COVID-19 around Thanksgiving. She hopes to not return until the twins are due in late April. (Source: KMPH via CNN)

“I never thought that it would be to this extent. I never thought there’d be a chance of dying, honestly, or that I never see my family again,” Selling said. “You need to listen to your body and know when it’s time to go. I’m glad I did when I did because I may not have been here if I didn’t.”

Staff in the intensive care unit started Selling, who is pregnant with twins, on a therapy called extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. It is used for COVID-19 patients who are out of other options.

Only about 20 patients at the hospital have received the treatment since the start of the pandemic.

After the treatment, Selling recovered and was released. She spent seven weeks in the hospital.

“Losing the babies was probably my biggest fear, and being able to go home alive and with the babies is huge,” she said. “It’s crazy what that machine and that team does.”

The twins, both believed to be girls, are due in late April, and Selling hopes she won’t be back at the hospital until then.

Copyright 2021 KMPH via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.

Filed Under: Special Coverage: Coronavirus

Primary Sidebar


 

Follow Us On Facebook



TRENDING NOW

NBA In-Season Tournament ‘met its intended purpose,’ Knicks head coach Tom Thibodeau says

Florida man arrested after allegedly stabbing woman several times because ‘he wanted to’: authorities

Winter Olympics on verge of returning to Salt Lake City in 2034

Photo hunt: How fast can you find 5 carrot noses belonging to the snowmen?

Pennsylvania man accused of hitting wife to death during argument over money for cat’s vet bills

Footer

PUBLIC FILE INFO

Individuals with disabilities who have questions about the content of our public file or website may contact Jean Nadeau by phone at
(910) 343-8826 or by email at Jean.Nadeau
@foxwilmington.com

 
 » WSFX FCC Public File
»EEO Report
»Closed Captioning

SITE MAP

  • Local Headlines
  • Coronavirus
  • Local Weather
  • National Headlines
  • Sports
  • Politics
  • Health

WSFX TV

  • Livestream Newscast
  • Meet Our Team
  • Sales & Programming
  • WELCOME HOME
  • Go With The Pros
  • Medically Speaking
  • WHAT’S ON FOX

Copyright © 2023 · American Spirit Media LLC · WSFX TV · Wilmington NC · Terms of Service · Privacy Policy