{"id":2991,"date":"2021-12-11T18:14:27","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T18:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/CAIiENTcjBQJXwkGOQ8vPAJ6YoQqFggEKg0IACoGCAow7s8BMNBIMLXUiQY"},"modified":"2021-12-11T18:14:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T18:14:27","slug":"miracle-lady-in-new-jersey-beats-covid-after-whopping-233-days-in-hospital-the-daily-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=2991","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Miracle Lady&#8217; in New Jersey Beats COVID After Whopping 233 Days in Hospital &#8211; The Daily Beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.thedailybeast.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,d_placeholder_euli9k,h_784,w_1394,x_0,y_0\/dpr_2.0\/c_limit,w_740\/fl_lossy,q_auto\/v1639245651\/Screen_Shot_2021-12-11_at_1.00.18_PM_cxcq3j\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"Mobiledoc\">\n<p>COVID-19 affects everyone differently, but it provided prolonged torture to one New Jersey woman\u2014one that took 233 days to end. Joanne Masciocchi, 65, spent almost all of 2021 between four hospitals as she grappled with COVID, with 70 of those days spent in a medically induced coma. The ordeal prompted her family to call in a priest to perform her last rites six times, fearing any off moment could be her last. \u201cSeveral times they called us\u2014five or six times\u2014and told us this might be it,\u201d Danielle Masciocchi, Joanne\u2019s eldest daughter, told NJ.com. \u201cThere are no words to describe it other than hopeless.\u201d But her condition later improved, allowing her to get off a ventilator and, at a rehab center, learn to speak and walk again. One of the priests who saw her at the center only had one title for her. \u201cI call her the Miracle Lady,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Joanne Masciocchi said the ordeal was hard for even her to believe, even as her family consistently labeled her a fighter. \u201cSometimes I\u2019ve asked the Lord, \u2018Why did this happen to me?\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t know why. But it is what it is. Everybody has something to bear in life. This has been my challenge. Now it\u2019s back to work.\u201d Her family has set up a <a class=\"LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/joanne-masciocchis-miracle-team\">GoFundMe<\/a> to help pay for her medical expenses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"ReadItAtLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/coronavirus\/2021\/12\/it-seemed-hopeless-but-after-233-days-in-the-hospital-this-nj-woman-overcame-covid.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>Read it at <\/span><span class=\"ReadItAtLink__name\">NJ.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 affects everyone differently, but it provided prolonged torture to one New Jersey woman\u2014one that took 233 days to end. Joanne Masciocchi, 65, spent almost all of 2021 between four hospitals as she grappled with COVID, with 70 of those days spent in a medically induced coma. The ordeal prompted her family to call in a priest to perform her last rites six times, fearing any off moment could be her last. \u201cSeveral times they called us\u2014five or six times\u2014and told us this might be it,\u201d Danielle Masciocchi, Joanne\u2019s eldest daughter, told NJ.com. \u201cThere are no words to describe it&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut-cbd-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}