MUNCIE, Ind. — Nowadays, Tony Uggen does a lot of writing. After all, it beats staring at the wall inside the Intensive Care Unit.
Uggen, the athletic director and head baseball coach at Blackford High School, was in the ICU at IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital Sept. 8-14. On Monday afternoon, he was told he was now considered a Progressive Care Unit patient, another step in the right direction.
He tested positive for COVID-19 on Aug. 31 after having showing several symptoms — mild fever, cough, trouble breathing and occasional chills that left him shaking — a few days before.