Angela Primachenko feels like a walking miracle after everything she has survived recently. The 27-year-old mom, who is still fighting the coronavirus, is sharing her story about giving birth to her second child while she was in a weeklong medically induced coma.
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The mama was 33 weeks pregnant when she fell sick with a fever and went to the hospital in Vancouver, Washington, where she tested positive for COVID-19. She is now home recovering from the virus and has yet to meet her beautiful little girl, Ava, but she is still remaining hopeful.
Angela shared her story on 'Today.'
Angela, who is a respiratory therapist, said she went to the hospital after she felt ill. She was 33 weeks pregnant with her second child and didn't expect to give birth. The mom came out of her medically induced coma on April 6, not knowing she had become a mom for the second time. She awoke five days after she had given birth. “Obviously nobody expected that I was going to get that sick, so absolutely I did not expect to deliver my child,” she said on the Today show. “After all the medication and everything I just woke up and all of a sudden I didn’t have my belly anymore! It was just extremely mind-blowing."
She shared a selfie from her hospital bed.
"Thank you so much for everyone for helping me overcome the most challenging. For everything. The gifts, the support. My life only here bc of God and the community people I 1 I’m alive!!!!!!! love," she captioned this selfie on Wednesday, April 8. Doctors at the Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center induced her labor to keep her baby safe.
She shared a video of when she left the ICU.
Angela was in a coma in the ICU for a week before she was moved to a different floor. Nurses and doctors clapped for her after overcoming the worst and took a video of the beautiful moment. "HUGE DAY TODAY!!!! #praisethelord Still currently at the hospital, in isolation but today I graduated from the ICU to the floor’!!!’ ," she captioned the video on Friday, April 10. "Correction sadly I still can’t have any visitors because I still I am corona positive #coronasurvivor."
She couldn't meet her baby right away.
Angela won't be able to meet her daughter Ava until she tests negative for the virus twice. "Another update I still have not got the chance to meet my little Ava….. but I’m believing as soon as I’m cleared and no longer have the coronavirus I will be able to hold her maybe within the next week!" she wrote. "Also huge!!!! I Finally showered after being intubated. For 11 day!!!!" The mom chose such a fitting name for her little one. She said Ava means “breath of life,” adding that “she’s our new little breath of life.” So cute!
The lovely nurses have shown her pics of her baby girl.
The newborn is still in the hospital, and her dad has been able to visit her. "Baby Ava is still in the NICU and i still haven’t been able to see her in person ," the mom captioned this pic of her little baby. "But so thankful for amazing nurses who send me update photos!!! @jennifer_ristau2 was able to take a pic of my baby girl for me!!! CANT WAIT TO MEET YOU my little fighter!!"
She shared a happy update when she got home from the hospital.
"17 days in the hospital. 10 days intubated. Thousands of prayers later I am home and it feels so good!!!!!" she wrote along with a selfie on Sunday, April 12. "JESUS resurrected me and this year like none before I am so thankful for the Resurrecting power of JESUS!!!!!"
Angela keeps a smile on her face, even after all that she has been through, and when asked what she wants people to know about her experience, she said to hold on to hope. "There's hope, even in the hardest days, and in the hardest times, that there's hope. You can rely on God, and people and community, and the amount of community and people that were praying for me is just unbelievable," she said on Today. "I was blown away, and I am so incredibly thankful. I feel like I'm a miracle walking."
