Posted on 04/05/2020 2:16:45 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel
So very sorry for your loss, FRiend.
May God hold you close.
Tatt
So grateful for you all that made it through to share their accounts.
Prayers of strength for all.
do not know anyone that has been sick and recovered
Pastor/hospice chaplain here. Lost a dear friend this past week. He was almost 70 with underlying health issues. Another elderly gentleman part of our church family passed away from the virus. Don’t have enough details. Another older women in the hospital, not doing well. Son of our church secretary early 40’s. Being put on a vent as I write this. Underlying health issues. Cousins 90 year aunt died today of the virus. Hopeful notes: pastor friend covid recovered. They are using his blood for antibody therapy. Father of girl in our church, did not have to go on vent, fever broke, improving. It is bad in Jersey. We live in a hot spot. It is real.
Thanks. This is my brother-in-law’s family, and we were not really close, but perhaps my story might make the situation more real for some FReepers.
I work for a company in what has been deemed an essential industry (HVAC). We have 10K employees mostly throughout North America with a few hundred in Europe. Our CEO posted a video to the company website last week. So far we have just 6 employees that have Coronavirus.
what is the point of sign language interpreters anyway? This is 2020, not 1970. All TVs have close captioning now.
I heard that Clay doesn’t even live in Dallas County - he lives in Waxahachie.
Pretty sure I saw him walking close to where I live the other day which is in Dallas county.
I traveled to Jamaica mid March and after returning home (2 weeks ago yesterday) over a dozen of the people that were at the same resort have confirmed cases of Corona and many more believe they have/had the virus including myself and my wife. My wife has been laid up since last Sunday, her symptoms have been high fever, a nasty cough and body aches. We are in NC and have not been tested, they will not test us as we are not in a high risk group and because her symptoms are not that bad. She has had two virtual doctor appointments and daily calls from the RN. She was prescribed just cough medicine and a z-pack. She is getting better, we are on day two of very little fever but she is still coughing like hell. Myself, the week we returned I had headaches, sore throat, and stuffiness, wrote it off as allergies or post Jamaica crud that we usually seem to get. I became concerned after I lost my sense of smell and taste...but that was the extent of it for me and now I feel fine. 5 days after we returned we found out that someone had tested positive that we had contact with, since then there have been 10 other people who have tested positive that we had varying degrees of interaction with. Out of the sample of about 20 people only three have had it really bad, one of them being my wife. One has fully recovered and the other one has been really bad off with a stay in the hospital. Thankfully she just returned home today, but not anywhere near back to normal yet. This thing is real, been married 25 years and have never seen my wife sicker...but I think the majority of people it will not affect hardly at all. I hope we can get an antibody test soon, while I am 99% convinced that we are positive, we won’t know for sure until that happens.
About two weeks in and the only remaining symptom is some throat congestion... I expect I will be back to normal by end of week.
Still awaiting wife’s test results from test done 7 days ago... but she to looks to be done with most symptoms... I expect she will be back to normal come end of week as well.
God has blessed us... things could have been much worse.
“what is the point of sign language interpreters anyway? This is 2020, not 1970. All TVs have close captioning now.”
Good question. Seems like they are all using them right now.
BFLR
You killed them?
Interesting... although my wife showed all the corona symptoms... her test came back negative....
I guess that is good news...
Glad you’re feeling better.
Because of the trend to go back to ASL for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, many of the younger Deaf are not very fluent in English And their reading levels are not what they should be.
Plus, the closed captioning on the fly often is not ery a curate. I’ve seen a lot that just flat out makes no sense.
Hey, at least they aren’t interpreting into Spanish.
very accurate
If CA had COVID-19 much earlier, why didn’t we see their medical system get overwhelmed (if it arrived in January/February).
They’re not overwhelmed now. My daughter is in Ventura County and the hospitals there don’t have a lot of cases. They’re in better shape than MA. with a MUCH larger population.
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