Dispatch from my area, someone asked Do you or anyone you know have this virus, what happened, what was the outcome, here's some edited replies, yikes
Posted by
zeitgeist
Apr 3 '20, 01:58
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My cousin just died this morning. I'm pleading with God to spare his brother that took him to the hospital. He coughed the whole way there. Kenny got him into a wheelchair and the doctors told him to leave. Phillip died alone.
4 hospitalized 2 of those are now recovered with loss of lung capacity. 4 in early stages
3 fully recovered
2 mild to moderate and self quarantined
1 now moved to bronchitis and is on the mend
best friend’s grandmother passed away due to covid-19
I fatal, 1 in recovery after 3 wks in ICU (daughter of deceased)
Spring Training & had been volunteering at the stadiums..she had a fever for a week & a half and couldn’t breathe
Yup I've got about 40 and 1 died and 2 are on ventilators
Friend of a friend who passed was confirmed as having Covid. But only confirmed because he was bad enough to be hospitalized
I know several people who have been confirmed, one that has gotten over it and is back to work (he’s a nurse), a couple people who have elder relatives who passed away.
honestly it’s hard to say 4 are in the hospital and you can’t speak too and 1 friend delivering amazon packages 2 days ago knowing he has the virus just went MIA.
I could be more descriptive of my families timeline but theres no point now.. they let it spread beyond control. The doctor I saw via virtual visit is scared.. I could see it on her face and the shakiness in her voice she said I have it but to not come in unless i could no longer breathe... and I could tell it hurt her heart to tell me that. She said in 3 weeks time this will be like nothing the globe has ever seen. No shit. My wife was sitting right next to me. She prescribed zpack to help it from complicating into pneumonia and a rescue inhaler.
this one is the son of a very good friend:
It started with a 103.7 temperature in my son. Within 6 hours my whole family was in the hundred three range except our baby and 10 year old. With tepid showers cool washcloth we were able to get the temperatures down to a 102ish. The 102 temperatures lasted for three days. That's about the time the cough started. A super dry cough it was very unproductive and seem to coat your whole lungs and bronchial tubes. For three more days the temperatures road pretty steady at a 100 degrees. The rest of my family at that point started the spring back, I began to downgrade. My smell when a little funny and I lost the taste in my mouth. That was about a week in. I then got diarrhea. My family's cough started to get better why mine stayed the same and I started to lose breath while talking. After a day or so I did the virtual visit. The doctor I spoke with via video visit said that she's almost 100% sure that my family has it but we do not meet the "A" criteria for testing. She told me not to come in and for my family to stay in my house. She said the next three weeks will be bad for our area and the shakiness of her voice told me she is scared.. She told me if it gets bad enough to where I could not breathe call 911. She prescribed z-pack antibiotics to help from pneumonia setting in and also prescribed a rescue inhaler. The next three days I could barely speak a full sentence. My breathing was very shallow and quicker than normal. I could not hold my breath for more than 3 seconds without pain in my chest. Like I said I've had the flu very badly to where I needed to be nursed and I've also had pneumonia pretty bad. This was like nothing I've ever felt. My cough was very very dry and unproductive. Like I previously stated it felt like something that coated my lungs and bronchial tubes. During this time I would hold my head over boiling water that had drops of essential oil eucalyptus and mint oils. I would take steam showers so hot I could barely stand the Heat. I drink hot water pretty much all day. And at least three to four times a day would gargle very hot salt water. Within These Days there were a few times where I almost did call 911. I wrestled with calling 911 and being put on a tube alone without my family but I'm a scaredy cat and don't want to die drowning by myself on land. I've never felt like taking my own life would ever be an option for anything I've ever been through in life. But I was suffering far worse than I ever have. It was at that time then I questioning my faith in God and I told him if it's his will to take me to please do so already. My wife and kids were scared for me. They have never seen me that down for the count. After after five or six days I'm struggling to breathe even at rest I woke up from a nap and was surprised that I could breathe the tiny bit better. My diarrhea had become soft serve all of a sudden.. As the evening progressed my breathing got a little easier. Throughout those six days I continued to gargle salt water, and take hot steam showers, and boiled water with eucalyptus and mint Citrus and lemon to breathe the steam when it got very uneasy to breathe. It's an essential oil that my friend overnighted me. THANK YOU xxxx!! I changed my eating a little bit and tried to eat foods that would build my immune system and give me strength clean strength. Vitamins too!!! Thankyou ccccc !! So at about two to two-and-a-half weeks in is was that evening happened and I got a little relief. The next morning I woke up my breathing was even a little easier. But towards that afternoon which was either yesterday or the day before I got the heaviness in my chest again but this time only seem to last a couple hours. On Saturday will have been three weeks since this started for my family. Today has been my best day and I'm so grateful that God didn't call me home through this. My wife and children are large part of the reason I kept fighting to breathe. My wife went above and beyond and taking care of me and my children picked up my slack around the house. Even when I had pneumonia a couple years ago I didn't struggle to breathe this bad. It affects everybody differently as my two youngest boys never got temperatures but did cough and my baby is still coughing. Only myself my wife and my 13 year old boy got the temperatures. And although all of us got the cough I was the only one who's breathing was affected so severely. I want to thank my family and friends for for not only sending me and dropping off supplies but also being moral support. This is the first time that I have really spoke about it publicly. My breathing is still a little labored but I can speak without losing my breath and almost sing to my baby. I've never felt so mortal in all my life so much so to where I reached out to some people in the hopes of letting them know how I feel about them. Although my strengths was down and couldn't reach out to as many as I needed to. I would beg people to take this serious but they are set in their ways and until you really can't breathe I can see how you it could be brushed off. I thank God from the bottom of my heart for not only being with me and giving me Comfort and peace but also every breath I take. I have no explanation for how my government at the Federal state and local levels have handled this and don't know that I ever will. To the people still out at their jobs that are deemed essential most of which not so much I just asked that you think of your loved ones as I am human and have had hate in my heart at times in my life but can honestly say I do not wish the feeling I had in my lungs and not being able to breathe on my worst enemy. I wish nothing more than to hug my mom and my dad but could not if I would risk their lives and don't know if I could shoulder that. I tried to reach out to more people to let them know I love them cuz I didn't know if I would ever be able to let them know again. Some of them I was able to get a hold of and some of them I wasn't. But I wanted to tell so many more of you no matter how big or small you've touched my life. My perspective of life has changed. Tomorrow really is not promised. When trying to decide if something is worth doing or not ask yourself if it's worth the death of a loved one. Or a stranger that is someone else's loved one. Although the lack of regard for other humans that we are witnessing not just and our government but also just regular people has been hard to watch especially as myself and the other struggle to breathe and some die. But on the flip side to that it has also been so beautiful to see people coming together and fight for each other in a way that only love can accomplish. I want to let all of my people know that I love you all and may God see us through this
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