A Stockton man claims he got severely ill and nearly died after swimming in a popular lake, losing 28 pounds in just one week.

“I couldn’t move; I couldn’t look around, like I was a zombie,” Lopez said. Now, there’s no sign of his life-threatening ordeal where he says his fever spiked to 107 degrees.

He says he was hospitalized for days after swimming at the reservoir. “I couldn’t eat nothing, I was laying there like this,” he said, adding he didn’t think he would survive. MORE