Though Texas nurse Amber Vinson is recovering from her bout with Ebola, she's upset because authorities incinerated her engagement ring while she was hospitalized, AOL reported on Friday.
Vinson cared for the first U.S. Ebola patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, and somehow contracted the virus in the process. She was first hospitalized on Oct. 14, but was released from the hospital two weeks later after her blood tests came up negative for the disease.
Shortly after her diagnosis, Vinson was criticized for flying to Cleveland to plan her wedding just before she started experiencing symptoms.
"It is very draining. And even now, walking a short distance, I get short of breath. When I was going through my very rough days, you have to force yourself to get up and forcing yourself to get up is a struggle. You're fighting for your life," she told CNN.
She said many of her possessions were burned quickly after she started receiving treatment.
"Your house was sterilized? They burned a lot of your things? They incinerated your engagement ring?" Don Lemon asked on CNN Tonight.
"Yes. I was crushed. It's a thing, but it has sentimental value to me," she told Lemon.
Vinson also has something in common with another nurse who contracted Ebola and lost something -or someone - close to her. Teresa Romero, a nurse in Spain who became the first person to catch the virus outside of Africa, criticized authorities for euthanizing her dog. Madrid heath officials said the dog could possibly have transferred the disease.
American nurse Nina Pham, who also became sick after working on Duncan, has a dog that was quarantined after her diagnosis. Both her and the dog have since been cleared and reunited.
