'You can get past this' man wins month-long battle with COVID-19

HERE'S NBC 5'S ROSS KETSCHKE WITH HIS STORY. <STEPHANE GOULET, SON OF DISCHARGED COVID-19 PATIENT "NOT TODAY COVID. THAT'S THE WAY I SAW IT."> YOU COULDN'T ASK FOR A BETTER ENDING... STEPHANE GOULET, SEEING HIS DAD PAUL LEAVE THE I-C-U AFTER A MONTH LONG BATTLE WITH COVID-19... SURROUNDED BY THE DOCTORS AND NURSES WHO SAVED HIS LIFE. <STEPHANE GOULET, SON OF DISCHARGED COVID-19 PATIENT "WE DIDN'T THINK HE WAS GOING TO MAKE IT. BUT, THEY CAME THROUGH. THEY REALLY DID, ALL OF THEM DID."> THE 67 YEAR OLD SPENT 24 DAYS ON A VENTILATOR AT RUTLAND REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER.. BUT EVEN WHEN THINGS WERE AT THEIR WORST, GOULET SAYS HIS DAD NEVER STOPPED FIGHTING. <STEPHANE GOULET, SON OF DISCHARGED COVID-19 PATIENT "SURE ENOUGH, HE PULLED THROUGH. YOU KNOW, THE STUBBORN FRENCHMAN IN HIM. HE JUST SAID 'IM GOING TO HANG IN THERE AND I'M GOING TO DO THIS."> HE WORKS AT THE HOSPITAL WHERE HIS DAD WAS BEING TREATED... KNOWING FIRST HAND THE HARD WORK BEING DONE BY THOSE ON THE FRONT LINES. <STEPHANE GOULET, SON OF DISCHARGED COVID-19 PATIENT "EVEN DOWN TO THE HOUSEKEEPS AND THE LAB PEOPLE, EVERYONE FROM UPFRONT TO BEHIND THE SCENES, EVERYONE WHO WAS INVOLVED WITH HIS CARE WAS PHENOMENAL."> <LESLIE ALLEN, RRMC ICU NURSE "WE HAVE A LOT OF SUCCESS STORIES BUT I THINK BECAUSE OF THE PANDEMIC AND THIS PARTICULAR CASE, THIS WAS A HUGE ONE."> WITH HIS DAD NOW SETTLING IN FOR A FEW WEEKS OF REHAB THERAPY... GOULET WANTS OTHER FAMILIES AFFECTED BY THE VIRUS TO KNOW AT THE END OF THIS CHALLENGING ROAD, THERE IS HOPE. <STEPHANE GOULET, SON OF DISCHARGED COVID-19 PATIENT "EVEN IF YOU'RE ON A "VENT" FOR 24 DAYS, YOU CAN GET PAST THIS AS A FAMILY, G

A Vermont man is one step closer to going home after winning his month-long battle with COVID-19.Paulet Goulet, 67, arrived at Rutland Regional Medical Center in late-March with a positive case of the coronavirus.On Monday, he was transported out of the ICU, free of the deadly virus and surrounded by the doctors and nurses who treated him."Not today COVID," said Goulet's son Stephane. "You can hashtag that," he said laughing on Tuesday.Goulet spent 24 days on a ventilator while in the hospital.Stephane, who works at RRMC, commended the frontline health care workers who saved his dad."We didn't think he was going to make it. But, they came through. They really did. All of them did.""We have a lot of success stories," said ICU nurse Leslie Allen who treated Goulet. "I think because of the pandemic and this particular case, this was a huge one."When Goulet was transported out of the ICU, dozens of hospital staff members lined the halls to see him off with a roaring round of applause.He will spend the next few weeks in respiratory and physical therapy before heading home and back to work.

RUTLAND, Vt. —

A Vermont man is one step closer to going home after winning his month-long battle with COVID-19.

Paulet Goulet, 67, arrived at Rutland Regional Medical Center in late-March with a positive case of the coronavirus.

On Monday, he was transported out of the ICU, free of the deadly virus and surrounded by the doctors and nurses who treated him.

"Not today COVID," said Goulet's son Stephane. "You can hashtag that," he said laughing on Tuesday.

Goulet spent 24 days on a ventilator while in the hospital.

Stephane, who works at RRMC, commended the frontline health care workers who saved his dad.

"We didn't think he was going to make it. But, they came through. They really did. All of them did."

"We have a lot of success stories," said ICU nurse Leslie Allen who treated Goulet. "I think because of the pandemic and this particular case, this was a huge one."

When Goulet was transported out of the ICU, dozens of hospital staff members lined the halls to see him off with a roaring round of applause.

He will spend the next few weeks in respiratory and physical therapy before heading home and back to work.

'You can get past this' man wins month-long battle with COVID-19

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