The Dublin, Georgia resident told WMAZ he’ll be getting vaccinated after the 90-day waiting period, as instructed by his doctor. Although Rogers was hesitant to get vaccinated because of his underlying heart problems, his family now believes in the vaccine.

“In my heart, to look at them and say, ‘Oh yeah, Daddy is going to be OK,’ It was difficult because I didn’t know I was going to be OK the way they wanted,” Rogers told the news station.

He documented his experience in public posts on Facebook. Rogers thanked people who called to check in on him, described his symptoms and talked about the various tests and treatments he underwent. Some of the symptoms that Rogers wrote about included having very little energy and having trouble breathing at times.

A study from Northwestern Medicine shows that the virus that causes COVID-19 affects several areas of the lungs, taking hold of the lungs’ immune cells and using them to spread across the organ. This, the study says, can occur over days or weeks.

“I would initially lay down to sleep and I would start to settle, and I would wake up and gasp for air,” Rogers said.

Through this difficult and uncertain time, Rogers turned to his faith to get him through his recovery.

“Having shortness of breath, feeling like you can’t catch your breath, you wonder, ‘Why is it? Do I have a blood clot? Is it the pneumonia? Is it the COVID-19?’ I’ll say the entire time, the only peace that I had was that God was carrying me through it,” Rogers told WMAZ.

As Rogers continues his recovery, he said he plans to get vaccinated once he’s eligible.

“Lots of young people have contacted me,” the pastor said. “I didn’t push them either way but they chose to get the vaccine because of what I have been through. It has been very hard and scary. I wouldn’t wish it on anybody.

As the number of deaths from COVID-19 continues to rise, experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are calling it “a pandemic of the unvaccinated.” Those who are 12 years of age or older are eligible for the Pfizer vaccine, while people 18 and up can receive the Moderna or the Johnson & Johnson shot.

The United States just hit its goal of getting at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine into 70 percent of adults.

Newsweek reached out to Pastor Rogers for comment but did not hear back by press time.