My lady and I had it in early January, after we went to California for a trip to visit family. We stopped at a Denny’s Restaurant just north of McCarran Airport in Las Vegas on the way, where we were seated near a large Chinese family who were all chattering away in Chinese and hacking and coughing, not covering their mouths. We asked to be moved to another table but the restaurant was full and no tables were available. We should have gotten up and left to find another restaurant.
A week and a half after we returned, before the first “official” case was diagnosed in Washington state, both of us came down with something similar to the flu. We both lost our sense of taste, low grade fever, joint aches, head aches, difficulty breathing. Later my lady developed “covid toes”.
About three weeks after we sort of recovered, but were still exhausted, I was scheduled for a medical procedure. When they did the routine blood pressure checks, they also did a check of my blood oxygen level and found it was only 91%. Before the illness, my blood oxygen levels had always been 97% to 98%. This was a bit alarming. I had a follow-up appointment with my pain management specialist two weeks after the procedure and they again tested my Blood oxygen level where this time it was 89%. 88% is consider getting into dangerously low territory, The pain specialist suggested monitoring it very closely and talking to my GP about what was going on.
I bought an inexpensive blood oximeter from Amazon (under $25) and started checking my O2 levels during various conditions. I found it seldom got above 92%. At night, I’d wake and found it as low as 86%, not good! My GP ordered an overnight Blood Oximeter monitoring test. The test revealed that I was below 87% for 176 continuous minutes and hit as low as 81%, all while not showing any signs of sleep apnea.
I had done some research and some “recovered” COVID19 victims had the same blood oxygen level issues. No one knew why except that victims’ blood had lost some ability to bind oxygen similar to victims of carbon monoxide poisoning.
I now have to sleep with an oxygen supplement which gets my O2 level up to about 95%. . . and I have to use the power shopping carts when I go into stores. Thanks China!
My daughter and her family had something in early January after substitute teaching for a week after Christmas holidays.
She had a 105 and was aching all over, but she was mostly done with it in 2 days.
Husband got sick followed by the kids but theirs were very mild.