Still Unresponsive: Colorado Woman's 7-Week Coma After Fentanyl Dose

Still Unresponsive: Colorado Woman’s 7-Week Coma After Fentanyl Dose

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Posted by Eileen Stewart April 25, 2024

Micaela McGreevy, 26, adores cooking, her fiance Johnny Villalpando, and her eight younger siblings.

“You know what? I think I’m in love with this girl,” Villalpando remarked, thinking back to their early moments of their now over four-year romance. Being the first person in her family to graduate from high school, Micaela found employment as a CNA.

“My girl, she is one of the most beautiful-hearted people I know,” Micaela’s mother, Mindy McGreevy, remarked.

However, Micaela fought addiction—a family problem—for a long time.

“My daughter had a rough life growing up. I’m actually next month going to be six years sober myself. I’ve been about a decade now fighting to get her to come to the light of sobriety,” McGreevy stated.

Villalpando and Micaela became homeless in Aurora in March.

“It was all because of alcohol,” Villalpando stated, “but we had each other.”

The couple went to 7-Eleven to get dinner while they waited to check into a hotel.

“I made her wait outside with our stuff,” Villalpando stated.

Micaela claimed that a man wearing a hoodie had given her a pill for free when Villalpando emerged.

Still Unresponsive: Colorado Woman's 7-Week Coma After Fentanyl Dose

“She said, ‘Oh, I got this pill, she thought it was like a muscle relaxer,'” Villalpando stated.

Micaela took the blue tablet, believing it to be a medication, and quickly went to sleep. However, Villalpando was unable to rouse her.

“She’s not breathing, she’s not breathing, her lips are blue,” Villalpando stated.

As the ambulance arrived, he continued to give her chest compressions while dialing 911. Before arriving at the hospital, first responders had to revive Micaela after she passed away.

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“This is not happening, this is not real,” Villalpando stated.

Micaela’s brain injury from being oxygen-deprived for almost an hour had left her in a coma when her mother arrived.

“Many of the neuro doctors were telling me that Micaela as we knew her was not coming back,” McGreevy stated.

They discovered the tablet she was given was actually fentanyl after a blood panel. The identity and motivation of the individual who gave Micaela the drug remain a mystery, despite the fact that Aurora police are looking into it.

“In the back of my mind, I wonder if this is just some random person that is out there trying to hurt people on purpose,” McGreevy stated.

Micaela started using her facial muscles when she relocated to an intensive care hospital in April.

According to McGreevy, “The first time I saw her move her eyes, her sister came in and she stood next to her bed, and it was plain as day that she looked right up at her, and that’s when I knew, I knew that my little girl was still there.”

According to doctors, Micaela’s chances of waking up are currently 50/50. Her mom is hoping that someone else will be spared from fentanyl by her story.

Villalpando claims he is currently making this decision. While he waits for the day he reattaches Micaela’s ring to her finger, he is making an effort to sober up and find work.

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