Ehh, not really a hoax. I had Covid back at the end of January, 2 weeks after returning from a cruise to Mexico. I had covid, influenza A and pneumonia and went into the hospital via ambulance. The next day in the hospital I had a heart attack (MI) in my bed. The Covid, pneumonia and influenza were attacking my heart, lungs and other organs.
I had a quad bypass to improve blood flow to the heart to aid recovery. Looking back on it the doctors seemed to be selling me the bypass as I didn’t have much blockage other than the first quadrant. But IMO they knew what they were doing and made a brilliant decision.
I did have a pretty cool ICU experience tho. For 15 hours a figure in a long, hooded robe, holding a wooden staff in his right hand peered at me from the left side of a partially opened door. I’d look at him and he’d turn away. Then I’d turn away and he’d look at me. Back and forth it went for 15 hours. I stayed awake and breathed through my mouth rather then the ventilator. Whenever I tried to go to sleep the ventilator valve would make a slapping noise and I couldn’t breath through it so I breathed through my mouth. Besides, mottled-robe guy was there keeping me awake.
The next day they removed the ventilator and robe guy was gone. Turned out the ventilator’s valve had a washer put in backwards which kept it from working properly. So I needed to stay awake and breath through my mouth and Robe guy helped me stay awake. One weird thing about him was the few times I quickly looked at him before he could turn away was both his eyes had a distinct red line along the top of his lower eyelids. I looked that up and apparently it’s a symptom of conjunctivitis. Who hallucinates an apparition with conjunctivitis?
Other than that my Covid experience was pretty real to me.
Glad you got through it. Getting more blood flow through the heart when at rest is extremely important, especially in older people.-Tom