Yvonne Kinsella with her daughter Shannon Ruadhán Jones
Dublin based journalist Yvonne Kinsella has revealed how she “clung to prayer” when struck down with the coronavirus.
Ms Kinsella spent 13 days in hospital due to Covid-19, and her condition worsened to the point that nurses told her she would be put in an induced coma and taken to ICU.
Speaking to Pat Kenny on Newstalk this week, Ms Kinsella described the experience. “They told me I had to be put into an induced coma. I knew then I might never see my family again…but one of the nurses got me to lie on my front, she said that it relieves the pressure on the lungs. Any small improvement could help.
“After turning over, the nurse came back and told me that there was marginal improvement and they wouldn’t have to send me to ICU.”
It was then that Ms Kinsella turned to prayer.
“I said, ‘Oh my God, thank you God’. And the relief – I literally prayed, and prayed, and prayed. And I wouldn’t – I don’t go to Mass, but by God, I clung onto prayer. I definitely clung onto prayer, and I kept thinking of my mam and how she’d react if I wasn’t around, and I prayed and prayed and prayed.”
Ms Kinsella’s whole family came down with the virus, but she told Pat Kenny that they are “thankfully now finally on the road to recovery”.