‘I’m not going home’: Man who reported COVID-19 was phony needs double lung transplant to dwell

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A South Dakota person who assumed the coronavirus was pretend now suggests he requirements a double lung transplant to endure.

“I was a non-believer in this COVID things,” stated 42-yr-previous Nathan Foote, of Sioux Falls. “If you would have asked me right before this, I thought COVID was phony. But it is not bogus.”

The father of 5 posted a Facebook Stay movie that paints a grim photo of COVID-19.

“Just so you all know, this ain’t a joke. I’m not likely house. I’m likely to die in this area suitable right here,” Foote mentioned Monday in a movie publish.

Foote, a hip-hop artist whose stage name is “Crime Spree,” writes lyrics about his life, which has integrated gang involvement at a young age to jail at 16.

After investing 15 decades powering bars for aggravated assault and medicines, Foote turned his everyday living all around.

“I have been 8 yrs sober, 8 several years clean up since the working day I walked out of jail,” he reported.

“We’ve been collectively 19 a long time, so I have viewed the steps he’s taken, the improvements he’s built, the sobriety he has, the initiatives he’s created as a father and a wife or husband,” said his wife, Angie.

The Footes have 5 small children ranging in age from 7 to 17. The relatives assumed they experienced put difficult situations guiding them, then Nathan Foote contracted COVID-19 in Oct and formulated pneumonia.

“The COVID truly messed my lungs up,” he reported. “The only thing I can demonstrate it is, they are scarred. My lungs are scarred.”

Medical doctors have explained to him that he needs a double lung transplant, but there is a lack of lung donors, and COVID-19 has increased the need for the course of action.

“They say even if I make the listing, lungs are really hard to come by,” Nathan Foote said. “They’re challenging to appear by so I could be ready for good for a pair of lungs.”

“He doesn’t have without end,” his spouse said.

Nathan Foote reported if he does not get new lungs within two months, he will die, and that is what prompted him to deliver his message about Facebook to his loved ones and good friends.

“So now, I sit and hold out. I wait around for demise to come. It’s like 1 of the most difficult (expletive) in the earth, person,” he claimed.

He stated that since his time is constrained, he’s experienced to put together his family.

“I just believed I’d have a good deal a lot more time with them a great deal much more yrs with them,” he claimed. “You can’t take it for granted, you know.”

His wife additional: “Nathan experienced to have some pretty really hard discussions with them, you know the ‘I enjoy yous. I’m happy of you. I’m sorry I have to go so soon.’”

The pair is urging men and women to consider COVID-19 severely.

“Don’t think it won’t have an effect on you, even while you are balanced and if not have very little erroneous,” reported Angie Foote. “It could consider you down in a second.”

Several COVID-19 sufferers in the U.S. have gained double lung transplants, which can cost up to $1 million. A GoFundMe account has been established up for the Foote family members.

“If I’m at any time going to win the lottery, then this is the time,” Nathan Foote stated. “Pray for me, man, that I get this transplant. I genuinely will need this transplant.”