{"id":89476,"date":"2022-03-26T02:00:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T20:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/budding-model-has-legs-amputated-from-covid-complications-leaves-hospital-to-celebrate-21st-birthday\/"},"modified":"2022-03-26T02:02:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T20:32:01","slug":"a-budding-model-has-her-legs-amputated-due-to-covid-complications-she-leaves-hospital-to-celebrate-21st-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/a-budding-model-has-her-legs-amputated-due-to-covid-complications-she-leaves-hospital-to-celebrate-21st-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"A budding model has her legs amputated due to COVID complications; she leaves hospital to celebrate 21st birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A model-aspiring actress had both her legs amputated by COVID-19 complications. She returned home last week to celebrate her 21st Birthday with family and friends.<\/p>\n

Claire Bridges, a\u00a0courageous young woman, was born with a congenital heart condition, According to People<\/a><\/p>\n

When she tested positive for COVID\u00a0in early January, she had already been fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n

On Jan. 16, when her health began to rapidly decline she was hospitalized and put in\u00a0ICU, and was on life support.<\/p>\n

Her condition was diagnosed as COVID-19 myocarditis. It is mild, cyanotic acidosis, rhabdomyolysis and COVID-19 myocarditis. The New York Post reported<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One of the complications that developed was restricted blood flow\u00a0to her legs. The\u00a0life-threatening infection was so dire that it required doctors to\u00a0amputate her legs, Newsweek reported.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

On March 17, after spending two months in a medical facility in Tampa, Florida, Bridges was able to return to her\u00a0home in St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n

Before the young woman\u00a0contracted COVID she was working toward\u00a0a modeling career.\u00a0 Her Instagram\u00a0is filled with images of her smiling with different backdrops, including\u00a0posing on a\u00a0boat and\u00a0standing on the beach. One\u00a0of her recent images is\u00a0a photo of her\u00a0sitting upright on her hospital bed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI sat up by myself today!!,” she wrote. “So stoked!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bridges has been supported by many of her more than 5,000 followers.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are a true inspiration Claire!!!!,\u201dOne person wrote. \u201cThank you for being you!! We are rooting for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bridges’ father Wayne Bridges recently called his daughter a “amazing” in a Facebook post. \u201cwarrior,\u201d Newsweek reported<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Two months to the day this all started and Claire, for the first time sat up by herself! It may not seem like a lot, but for this Warrior, it’s a major victory!”\u00a0he wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As his daughters are preparing for prosthetics, he also talked about the long and difficult road ahead.\u00a0<\/p>\n

To help raise money for Bridges\u2019 medical and living expenses, a\u00a0GoFundMe<\/a>\u00a0has been organized by Bridges’ roommate and friend, Heather Valdes.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Claire]\u00a0will have to make major adjustments into a new way of life and any funds raised can help ease some of the challenges she may experience with medical and living experiences. Anything helps!\u201dShe wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

More than $108,000 was raised to reach their goal of $150,000 as of Friday.<\/p>\n

Last weekend while sitting in her backyard with\u00a0loved ones Bridges\u00a0wrote: \u201cHome & Outside.\u201d Following up with,\u00a0\u201c21st spent right! “Grateful for all your love and wishes,” she stated.<\/p>\n

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A model-aspiring actress had both her legs amputated by COVID-19 complications. She returned home last week to celebrate her 21st Birthday with family and friends. Claire Bridges, a\u00a0courageous young woman, was born with a congenital heart condition, According to People When she tested positive for COVID\u00a0in early January, she had already been fully vaccinated. On […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":89477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,11,3267],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Budding-Model-Has-Legs-Amputated-From-COVID-Complications-Leaves-Hospital.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}