New Brunswick teen details death-defying fight against COVID-19
Global News
Seventeen-year-old Kelsea Legacy spent nearly a week intubated in the ICU after contracting COVID-19.
Nov. 17 started off as a fairly standard day for 17-year-old Kelsea Legacy, but that night, when feeding the cats in her aunt’s Campbellton-area barn, she started to feel very sick.
“I was weak, I couldn’t stand up very well and I was shaky,” she says.
“That’s when I really realized I should probably go home.”
So she did, hoping to ride out whatever minor illness she’d come down with.
Only it wasn’t a minor illness at all — Legacy had contracted COVID-19.
“I was like, ‘No way, there’s no way it was positive,’ but it was,” she says.
Legacy didn’t have the tell-tale cough. She still had her senses of taste and smell, but she also had a high fever, dizziness and aches.
She took three at-home rapid tests, all of which showed a positive result, before booking a PCR test.
