A few weeks back, news broke that Jeremih had been placed on a breathing machine at Chicago’s Northwestern Hospital after contracting Coronavirus. At the time, his mother spoke out and asked for prayers for her son. It now appears that “Down On Me” singer has made a full recovery – recently opening up about his near death experience on Sway’s Universe (in support of he and Chance The Rapper’s Merry Christmas Lil Mama collaboration album).
“What I can say is it definitely is real. I didn’t take it for granted, and truth be told, I’m a living walking testimony to let y’all know. Like man, I was really down bad for the last month and a half while I was in there. I don’t even remember the day I went in, that’s how messed up it was in that whole time in there.”
Unable to breathe on his own, Jeremih was placed on a ventilator, “I had a tube down my throat for about a week and a half. I was really like in a dream, and I ain’t gon’ lie I woke up about two times and all I remember seeing is a white light those two times that I was in there.”
While in the Intensive Care Unit, Jeremih developed multiple inflammatory syndrome, which is a rare side effect caused by COVID-19. “My whole insides, all my organs became inflamed. It was going down, my heart went out, stopped beating and started beating irregularly, and my kidneys went out, my liver started to fail and go bad. Now I know all that now, mind you I didn’t know what was gong on at the time. I was out.”
Jeremih added, “Once I was removed from ICU after that week and a half I was going through recovery where I had to learn how to walk again, eat, all that stuff. Mind you, I’ve never been to a hospital in my entire life — not for a broken bone, not for nothing. So just to be in there I look at it as a blessing. As crazy as it might sound, I needed to sit down. I needed to take a break.”
Jeremih says he will recover at his mother’s house for the remainder of the year.
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