Ladera Ranch man battles coronavirus ‘beast,’ gets second chance

The phone rang just after 10 p.m. on a Friday. Already frazzled with fear, she answered.
The caller, her phone said, was her husband.
That was impossible, she thought. Brian Patnoe had been in an induced coma, on a ventilator, battling the coronavirus. The last report she had was that he still had a fever.
As it turned out, the call was from a nurse at Mission Hospital. She had called on Brian’s phone. She wanted to FaceTime.
Nikki Patnoe braced herself for bad news. Since Brian had been i