Palm Beach County deputies, officers escort Tennessee officer back home after COVID-19 treatment – WPBF West Palm Beach
BLUE CHEERED HIM ON DURING HIS LAST DAY IN THE HOSPITAL. SOOJI: IT’S A ARHETWARMING SENDOFF HERE AND THE BROTHERHOOD IS STRONG AS THEY’RE SENDING OFF OFFICER SEAN FINN BACK TO HIS HO. CHEERS ECHOING IN THE ENTRCEAN OF JFK MEDICAL CENTER IN ATLANTIS WEDNESDAY. AS OFFICER SEAN FINN AND HIS WIFE LAUREN ARE FINALLY GOING BACK HOME TO NASHVILLE. >> HE WAS ON ECMO FOR 81 DAYS AND SOME OF THOSE DAYS WERE DARK AND DIDN’T LOOK OPTIMISTIC SO THIS IS A HUGE CELEBRAONTI. OJSOI: FINN HAD BEEN HOSPITALIZED WITH COVI19D- COMPLICATIONS IN JANUA BACKRY HOME. AS HIS CONDITIONS WORSENED, HIS DOCTORS ADVISED HIM TO TRANSFER TO SOUTH FLORIDA WHERE THERE WERE AVAILABLE ECMO BEDS. >> HE WAS SUFFERG INFROM SEVERE HYPOXIA, UNDER PURE SEDATION, PARALYTIC, AND A VENTILATOR. SO AT THAT POINT, HIS DOCTORS AT HOME KIND OF DETERMINED THAT HE NEEDED A HIGHER LEVEL OF CARE SO THAT’S WHAT GOT US HE.RE SOI:OJ OVERCOMING ALL OF THESE HURDLES, FINN THANKS A CWD OFRO SUPPORTIVE HEALTH OFFICIALS AND HIS FELLOW BROTHERS IN UNIFORM. >> IT’S LIFECHANGING, THANK YOU SO MH,UC I APPRECIATE IT. >> SHOW SUPPORT, WE DON’T KNOW FIOFCER FINN, WE DIDN’T KNOW UNTIL HE CAME DOWN HERE AND MET M.HI BUT TO SHOW THAT DESPITE THE FACT THAT WE DIDN’T KNOWIM H PRIOR TO THIS, THAT WE ARE A BROTHERHOOD. SOOJI: AS LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMTEN AGENCIES IN PALM BEACH COUNTY ESCORT HIM TO PALM BEACH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, T FHENSIN ARE LOOKING TO ONE THING THE MOST. >> WE’RE GOING HE.OM AND WE HAVE A ONE-YEAR-OLD AND A TWO-YEAR-OLD LITTLE GIRL, SO WE ARE JUST GNGOI TO SNUGGLE DAN SOAK IT ALL UP
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Palm Beach County deputies, officers escort Tennessee officer back home after COVID-19 treatment
Officer Sean Finn is with the Franklin Police, and was transferred to JFK Medical Center in need of an ECMO bed.
Updated: 7:58 PM EDT Apr 27, 2022
Cheers filled the entrance of JFK Medical Center in Atlantis Wednesday morning, as Officer Sean Finn and his wife, Lauren, walked outside. Sean Finn was originally admitted into a local hospital in Nashville in January.”On Jan. 14, he needed ECMO and his hospital flew him down here because it was the only one that had beds and ECMOs available. And he’s been here ever since,” Lauren Finn told WPBF 25 News. “He was on ECMO for 81 days and some of those days were dark and didn’t look optimistic so this is a huge celebration.”It was an emotional, celebratory send-off as the Finns were finally able to go back home to Tennessee. “He was suffering from severe hypoxia, under pure sedation, paralytic, and a ventilator,” Lauren said.Local law enforcement agencies were present at the medical center, alongside health care professionals.”Show support, we don’t know Officer Finn, we didn’t know until he came down here and met him. But, to show that, despite the fact that we didn’t know him prior to this, that we are a brotherhood,” Adam Myers, the president of the Fraternal Order of Police in West Palm Beach, told WPBF 25 News. “It’s life-changing, thank you so much, I appreciate it,” Sean Finn said to a crowd before he was escorted into a van for Palm Beach International Airport. “We’re going home! And we have a 1-year-old and a 2-year-old little girl so we are just going to snuggle and soak it all up,” Lauren said.
Cheers filled the entrance of JFK Medical Center in Atlantis Wednesday morning, as Officer Sean Finn and his wife, Lauren, walked outside.
Sean Finn was originally admitted into a local hospital in Nashville in January.
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“On Jan. 14, he needed ECMO and his hospital flew him down here because it was the only one that had beds and ECMOs available. And he’s been here ever since,” Lauren Finn told WPBF 25 News. “He was on ECMO for 81 days and some of those days were dark and didn’t look optimistic so this is a huge celebration.”
It was an emotional, celebratory send-off as the Finns were finally able to go back home to Tennessee.
“He was suffering from severe hypoxia, under pure sedation, paralytic, and a ventilator,” Lauren said.
Local law enforcement agencies were present at the medical center, alongside health care professionals.
“Show support, we don’t know Officer Finn, we didn’t know until he came down here and met him. But, to show that, despite the fact that we didn’t know him prior to this, that we are a brotherhood,” Adam Myers, the president of the Fraternal Order of Police in West Palm Beach, told WPBF 25 News.
“It’s life-changing, thank you so much, I appreciate it,” Sean Finn said to a crowd before he was escorted into a van for Palm Beach International Airport.
“We’re going home! And we have a 1-year-old and a 2-year-old little girl so we are just going to snuggle and soak it all up,” Lauren said.
