SOUTH FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — For a south Fulton County man, hearing his wedding songs is what got him out of the hospital and back into the arms of his new wife after battling COVID-19 for months.
“It’s just been a journey,” said Christon Boothe. “I was on a ventilator for at least two and a half months.”
Boothe and his wife, Carmealla, were married in September. Weeks later, he was in the hospital battling COVID-19. Doctors didn’t think he would make it.
“I told my children that I don’t know if I’m going to make it out of there and to take care of their selves,” Christon Boothe said.
“They told me if he did make it out, he would be permanently disabled,” Carmealla Boothe said.
While he was heavily sedated and on a ventilator, Carmealla would play “We Are One” by Maze, featuring Frankie Beverly, and “Can You Stand the Rain” by New Edition via FaceTime. The songs were from their wedding day.
Carmealla thinks the songs played a vital role in her husband’s recovery.
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“After I played that song, he started wiggling his toes. The nurses said, ‘I don’t know what’s going on; he wiggled his toes.’ I said, ‘Oh. that’s our wedding song.’”
Christon Boothe said the music gave him hope.
“I could hear the music, but I couldn’t move,” he said. “It made me fight.”
And he continued to get better.
The couple shared video with Channel 2′s Tom Jones of Christon Boothe leaving the hospital the week of Christmas.
Though he has a long road to recovery, his body did not suffer any permanent disability.
“He’s COVID free and not on any kidney dialysis. Thank you, Lord,” Carmealla Boothe said.
Now that the toughest part of his fight with COVID is over, Christon Boothe wants to remind everyone to take the virus seriously.
“If you can see my heart and see what I’ve been through, you would understand, this is serious,” he told Jones.
Now, Christon Boothe hopes to get well enough to go on the honeymoon trip that was interrupted.
“As soon as my walking gets better and my breathing and this COVID thing is settled down, we’re going to do something,” he said.
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