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The 62-year-old has been fighting against the deadly fungus for last four months with a partially functioning heart and his last CT scan showed that he may have finally started to conquer mucormycosis.
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“We were losing hope but what a fighter he turned out to be.
Suffering from so many ailments, he battled on all fronts with courage,” said Kinjal Patel, daughter-in-law of Piyush Patel who is suffering from mucormycosis.
The 62-year-old has been fighting against the deadly fungus for last four months with a partially functioning heart and his last CT scan showed that he may have finally started to conquer mucormycosis.
“The fungus has gone down by about 40% in his lungs.
His condition is much better and he now moves around at home,” Kinjal, a resident of Gotri, said.
But the battle wasn’t easy for Piyush who is suffering from multiple ailments including diabetes and hypertension.
It was in December last year that Piyush was detected with Coronavirus and had to be put on oxygen in the ICU where he spent 28 days.
Out of his four weeks stay, 18 days were for Covid treatment and another 10 days for removing water from his lungs.
“Just when we thought that he was fine, my father-in-law started feeling breathless and had a bloated stomach in February.