Nurse Wendy Wozniak hugs Carroll (Bubba) Humphrey, of Island Pond, Vt., as staff and family gather to celebrate his release from the VA Medical Center in White River Junction, Vt., after a six-month stay in the intensive care unit with COVID-19 on Wednesday, April 13, 2022. We built quite a relationship with this team," said Jess Smith, Humphrey's daughter, of Lancaster, N.H., left. “The fact that he got better is a miracle,” said Dr. Peter DeLong, ICU director at the hospital, who directed Humphrey’s care. Every day spent in a hospital bed could equal four to five days learning to walk and feed himself again with physical and occupational therapy, said DeLong. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com. Credit: valley news — James M. Patterson