Mom reunited with family after 7.5 months

WYNNEWOOD, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- The Fuentes household had been waiting for this time for seven-and-a-half months.

Mother Marissa Fuentes yet got to reunite with her Chester County, Pennsylvania household aft a agelong uphill conflict with COVID-19.

In April, Fuentes contracted COVID-19. She had to acquisition an exigency C-section for her son, Enzo, who was calved astatine 32 weeks.

Fuentes past contracted terrible pneumonia, had lung failure, and was enactment connected a ECMO instrumentality for five-and-a-half months, which fundamentally acts arsenic a patient's bosom and lungs.

So to marque it to the infinitesimal wherever she walked retired of rehab is thing abbreviated of a miracle.

"I'm not lone thankful for my kids and my hubby each day, but particularly contiguous to beryllium with them," said Fuentes.

Fuentes received attraction from hospitals astir the country similar Paoli Hospital, Lankenau Medical Center and Kindred Hospital. When she made it to the past measurement astatine Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital, seeing her kids again was her fig 1 priority.

"I told Bryn Mawr Rehab that I was precise determined to get location for the holidays, truthful they made it hap and they pushed maine each time truthful I could get stronger and get location successful clip for Thanksgiving," said Fuentes.

Meanwhile, Marissa's husband, Adrian Fuentes, had to clasp down the fort backmost location portion his woman battled for her life.

"It's surreal for 7 months and 5 days, it was conscionable maine and the kids here," said Adrian Fuentes. "And it was specified a lonely feeling each azygous day. It was horrible coming location each time and not having (Marissa) here."

This Thanksgiving is besides other peculiar for the Fuentes household arsenic it's small Enzo's first.

"Living the champion beingness with my kids, being location with them means the world," said Marissa Fuentes.

Fuentes is inactive connected oxygen and said it is simply a agelong roadworthy to recovery, but she's blessed to person her household by her side.