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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] REPORTER: AFTER SPENDING 105 DAYS IN TWO DIFFENTER HOSPITALS, LYNLEE NICHOLS IS FINALLY GOING HOME. >> TO GET HOME, GET IN MY OWN HOUSE, MY OWN BED, I AM OVERWHELMED. REPORTER: WHILE EIGHT MONTHS PREGNANT, NICHOLS CONTRACTED COVID. >> I WAS COMPLETELY HEALTHY. REPORTER: HER CONDITION WORSENED AND SHE WAS RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL IN MONTGOMERY FOR AN EMERGENCY C-SECTION. >> I WAS WORRIED I WAS GOING TO HAVE A BOND. I GAVE BIRTH TO A CHILD I HAD NEVER SEEN, NEVERELD, H NEVER HEARD CRY. REPORTER: ON TOP OF NEVER SEEGIN HER NEWBORN NICHOLS WAS PLACED , INTO A COMA FOR 9 WEEKS. >>. ON AUGUST 13, THEY PUT HER ON A VENTILATOR. SHE CONTINUED TO GET WORSE OVER TIME SEDATION AND THINGS LIKE , THAT WEREN’T WORKING FOR HER. REPORTER: RUNNING OUT OF OPTIONS IN TIME NICHOLS WAS TRANSFERRED , TO BOKROWOOD HOSPITAL WHERE SHE STAYED FOR 45 DAYS. >> HER DISEASE WAS EENXTSIVE AND MOST LIKELY TERMINAL. >> WE DID NOT EXPECT HER TO RECOVER. REPORTER: DOCTORS HAD TO PUT NICHOLS ON AN ECMO MACHINE, OR EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION. >> IT IS USUALLY ONLY DONE IN TRANSPLANT CENTERS. >> MOST OF THE TIME WHEN YOU HAVE SOMEONE WHO PROGRESSES TO THIS POINT, THE END RESULT IS THEY ULTATIMELY PASSED. REPORTER:REPORTER: THE MACHINE ACTED AS HER HEART AND LUNGS TO HELP HER GAIN STRENGTH AND BREATHE ON HER OWN. >> IN WEEKLY AND SOMETIMES MORE THAN WEEKLY CONVERSATIONS WITH VANDERBILT AND EMORY, THEY WERE ENCOURAGING, SHE’S DOING WELL SHE MAY GET OFF ECMO AND , CONTINUE TO RECOVER. WE WEREE, LIK WE DON’T KNOW. WE WILL SEE. REPORTER: BUT TO THE DOCTORS’ SURPRISE NICHOLS CAME OUT OF HER , COMA AND WAS TAKEN OFF THE VENTILATOR. >> PLEASE TAKE MY STORY SERIOUSLY. I SHOULD NOT BE ALIVE TOD.AY THERE IS NO REASON ON EARTH OTHER TNHA GOD AND PRAYERS AND AN AMAZING MEDICAL TEAM. REPORT:ER NICHOLS’ RECOVERY IS FAR FROM OVER. DOCTORS SAY SHE WILL STILL HEAV TO GO THROUGH EXTENSIVE PHYSICAL THERAPY BUT FOR NOW SHE SAYS SHE IS HAPPY AND READY TO WRAP H