![]() “And I was like, I’m not so sure about this. “Right next to me was a bridge that I was being coaxed to walk over,” Peters said. He describes being in a gold room, where a voice was talking to him. In his dreamlike state in the hospital, he also had what he calls a vision. I processed it through my brain in a dream,” said Peters. “One of the doctors said this is where you fight or you die. ![]() Peters said he had pneumonia and blood clots, and neared a point of no return. “My oxygen levels went down to 17% when they should be at 100% (or) 99%,” he said. Peters landed in the hospital for more than two months, spending about 20 days on a ventilator. “We seemed to follow all the protocols up to that point, but two or three days later, 20 of us came down with COVID,” he said. Then in early April, Peters attended a rehearsal dinner for his daughter’s wedding. “Truth be told, I always downplayed this virus because I thought it was hitting older people. ![]() Peters - who’s in his 50s - didn’t take the coronavirus seriously at first and didn’t get vaccinated. “It’s a miracle that I’m here,” said Ted Peters, a longtime season ticket holders from Haymarket, Virginia, who’s been wearing the captain’s hat, white shirt with shoulder epaulets and “OBVIOUS” sash for years. Washington Nationals fans are familiar with the team’s superfan, Captain Obvious: a smiling, bearded jokester who comes to the ballpark carrying signs with hilarious messages such as “winning is fun.”īut a serious illness has kept the funnyman away from Nationals Park since Opening Day: COVID-19. Business & Finance Click to expand menu.
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