After nearly two months, a West Allis woman severely injured in a mobile home fire is out of the hospital. Kimberly Guy remembers waking up in the middle of the night to her home on fire June 19. As first responders dramatically rescued her 3-year-old grandson MJ, Guy walked out on her own.”I’m like ‘I need to sit.’ I said, ‘My feet hurt.’ I knew nothing about the back side of me,” Guy said. She said her nightgown caught fire. Paramedics rushed her to Froedtert Hospital. “I didn’t know anything after that,” she said. She spent the next 10 days in a coma at St. Mary’s burn unit battling third-degree burns, COVID-19 and pneumonia. In total, she spent 50 days in the hospital and a week in rehab. When asked what the hardest part was, Guy said, “Being away from the family.”Now, she’s reunited with them. Her medical team released her last Tuesday and that’s when she was able to surprise MJ at home.”I’m just looking out the window, and he gets all excited. I’m like, ‘Come here!’ He gives me a hug and it’s ‘Mimi this and Mimi that,'” Guy said.Guy’s daughter, Noelle, who was also injured in the fire, said she’s happy her mom is home. “I can come home and see her, make food for her, hang out with her next to her in the chair,” she said.Guy did lose all of her belongings in the June fire, but she didn’t lose everything. “Oh, I’m so thankful to be alive, to be home, to be with my family,” Guy said.
WEST ALLIS, Wis. —
After nearly two months, a West Allis woman severely injured in a mobile home fire is out of the hospital.
Kimberly Guy remembers waking up in the middle of the night to her home on fire June 19.
As first responders dramatically rescued her 3-year-old grandson MJ, Guy walked out on her own.
“I’m like ‘I need to sit.’ I said, ‘My feet hurt.’ I knew nothing about the back side of me,” Guy said.
She said her nightgown caught fire.
Paramedics rushed her to Froedtert Hospital.
“I didn’t know anything after that,” she said.
She spent the next 10 days in a coma at St. Mary’s burn unit battling third-degree burns, COVID-19 and pneumonia. In total, she spent 50 days in the hospital and a week in rehab.
When asked what the hardest part was, Guy said, “Being away from the family.”
Now, she’s reunited with them.
Her medical team released her last Tuesday and that’s when she was able to surprise MJ at home.
“I’m just looking out the window, and he gets all excited. I’m like, ‘Come here!’ He gives me a hug and it’s ‘Mimi this and Mimi that,'” Guy said.
Guy’s daughter, Noelle, who was also injured in the fire, said she’s happy her mom is home.
“I can come home and see her, make food for her, hang out with her next to her in the chair,” she said.
Guy did lose all of her belongings in the June fire, but she didn’t lose everything.
“Oh, I’m so thankful to be alive, to be home, to be with my family,” Guy said.
