Chiropractor and Integrative Medicine practitioner, Sage Campione, finds herself as the patient in the ICU in Saint Simons, Georgia, with an extreme case of COVID-19 in March of 2021.
“Eight Days Under” tells the harrowing journey of Dr. Campione being placed in a medical coma, including a near-death experience where she has an encounter with Jesus. She awakes to find people are dying all around her, and she is forced to become her own health advocate, despite resistance by medical staff.
Sage’s faith and determination help her survive, and she and her husband, Darrell, witness the power of a community rallying around them through a long and arduous healing process.
I appreciated this Functional Medicine physician's personal experience as a Covid patient in ICU during the pandemic. More interesting to me was her reliance on her faith in Jesus and the intimacy developed between her and her husband as he became her advocate, caregiver and emotional support in every aspect. She gently revealed in an intimate way her own struggles and her view of gratefulness toward all that happened in her illness and the arduous healing process afterwards. The book is short and well spoken.