‘It happened so fast’: Sportsnet host details fight with COVID, being put in coma

July 16.

That’s the day Brent Krahn‘s life changed, and when a troubling two-week journey for his family began.

Krahn, who is a host on Sportsnet 960 The Fan, got COVID-19 this past summer and not long after being diagnosed, was placed in a coma.

“It just happened all so fast. It was so surreal,” he detailed on Sportsnet 960’s Boomer in the Morning.

“I had time to call my wife and let her know that, ‘this is what I’m doing’ and didn’t really have time much to be scared.”

LISTEN: Brent Krahn details his fight with COVID on Boomer in the Morning. (Segment begins at 01:43:30)

Krahn says in the two weeks he was in a coma, he was transferred to several different hospitals in Calgary for care.

“I started at the Peter Lougheed and while I was in the coma, I got rushed to the Foothills (Hospital) and then when I came out of the coma, they sent me to Calgary South Health Campus,” he said.

“It was quite an interesting summer boys, I’ll tell you that.”

Krahn said when he got out of the coma he was grateful it was so short compared to what others have had to go through.

“There’s a lot of people that go into comas for months. I was very, very, very lucky that it was only two weeks.”

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Krahn says after coming out of the coma, everybody was asking him what being in a coma was like, his response:

“It was just a dream. It’s all it was, was a big dream,” he explained.

“I mean some weird stuff was going on in there, everybody’s got weird dreams. I remember when I was being pulled out of the coma, I can feel myself being pulled out like the dream was kind of still on the ground, I was kind of floating away and I realized like, ‘this is all kind of… this is too much. This is weird. What’s going on? What’s happening?'”

Krahn said when we woke up he was still attached to the ventilator and was told he would remain attached to it until he was able to breathe on his own again.

Slowly, Krahn was able to breathe on his own and get his voice back but says the experience is one that wasn’t easy.

“Man, it was … I’ll never forget it and it was life-changing.”