soon ganeene was struggling to breathe.> i remember being very desperate, grabbing the mask and then feeling, you know, the oxygen come in. >> reporter: ganeene spent nine days in the hospital. six of them in the icu. >> in those moments when you can't breathe like that, even with all the oxygen they were giving me, it feels like you have a ziploc bag over your head and somebody's holding it. and i mean, i had oxygen on and i was still feeling that way. >> reporter: at 43 did you ever think that you would get that sick from covid? >> mm-mm. 100%. i'd had conversations with my husband and said we've probably already had it, just didn't even know it. and honestly, he agreed that we had probably already had it. and there have been times i've been sick and i was like oh, it's probably covid, no big deal. >> reporter: no big deal? not exactly. ganeene's oxygen had dropped to dangerously low levels. just 68%. she says she was told she had about a 20% chance of survival. >> my youngest baby is 6 years old. and so when you're told