MADISON – A recent celebration for Jewel Belcher at Madison Hospital was not a guarantee.

After 48 days of care, she was pushed out in a wheelchair with doctors, nurses, security guards and other hospital staff cheering and throwing confetti her way. Wearing a crown, she seemed overwhelmed by the experience.

Jewel originally went to the hospital on March 19th for a typical infection. She had no symptoms of the coronavirus. But, after a week of care, a routine test showed she was positive. From there, it became a battle of life and death that would eventually involve her entire household. Jewel would get sicker and sicker throughout the rest of March and the entire month of April. She developed pneumonia and needed blood transfusions.

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