Back in July, Lori Haler was fighting for her life at Mayo Clinic after contracting Legionnaires Disease following a stay at the Ramada Hotel in Albert Lea.

She said she went into the hotel's hot tub and a few days later she was sick.

"Basically I thought I had COVID, and that I was very sick with COVID because it was all the same symptoms. The flu-like symptoms, the coughing, the fever, the not breathing," she said.

As her symptoms worsened her family brought her to Mayo Clinic where she stayed for more than a month.

"It was heartbreaking knowing she was so terrified and so alone in there when there was nothing we could do about it except go see her a couple of times a day," Haler's daughter, Lexy Munkberg said.

Haler said she didn't remember going to the hospital.