I took him to the ER on July 10, where he tested positive. At that time he had a fever of 102.3, General body aches and only occaisonal coughing. Dr. gave him only a prescription for a pain killer.
Fever went down to normal on 15 July. The evening of 18 July he finally admitted that he was having real trouble breathing, with rapid shallow panting in order to breath without coughing. I made him use his mothers O2 sensor, and his O2 level proved to be in the mid-85's. Seriously low.
After consultation with his Dr.'s night nurse, I called 911, and the paramedics took him to the hospital.
At the ER, a chest x-ray revealed that his lungs were half-full of fluid. He had Covid lung, as the ER doc put it. Before being admitted to the hospital, the hospital doc said they would give him a course of Remdisiver.
I have communicated my cousin’s experience with HCQ several times, but will mention it again.
She and her husband are comparable in age and comparative weights to your nephew. Her husband had gone through chemo twice before for colon cancer.
The family tested positive a year ago this month. The wife was the sickest with oxygen levels as low as 86%. So weak she
couldn’t walk from one room to another.
On day 9 she went to the ER seeking help. They only gave her a CAT scan and IV fluids and sent her home.
So day 10 she found a doctor who would prescribe HCQ, antibiotic, and steroid breathing treatments.
The diarrhea stopped and fever was down the next day. Day 2 of HCQ her oxygen level had improved by 10% and was almost normal.
By the end of the week she felt nearly normal but kept up with the breathing treatments for a while afterwards.
The last I heard she had not regained her sense of smell or taste, and did not have the stamina that she had before, but had returned to work.
Did they give him anything to treat it when he first got sick? There are protocols for treating it especially for those with asthma.
Prayers for your nephew’s health and healing and speedy recovery !
Here’s the Math protocol for treating Covid
https://covid19criticalcare.com/covid-19-protocols/math-plus-protocol/
At around ‘85’ on the o2 meter, the body is losing the ability to even process o2 and organs are undergoing oxygen deprivation which hampers ability to function, causing pain and joint aches. Ventilating will reoxygenate those organs and that’s a good thing. Don’t let the ventilating freak you out.
Your nephew appears to be 19 days into the fight that kicks into high gear around day 10, so he’s near or at hump-day of a disease than runs 28 days on average. He’s on his fourth day hospitalized, the average is 8-10 (a few days longer for survivors), so he should start responding positively to treatment very, very soon.
His ICU odds of survival are about 80% roughly and look pretty good based on his prior health of no comorbidities (he’ll likely loose that 25 lbs extra) although he might be slow off the starting block for a while and it will take some time for his lungs to recover. Now is the time to start thinking about how he will convalesce (stairs in the home, hospital programs for rehab, etc?). Think positive, plan positive, act positive, and pray hard.
We will, too. :)
March 2021: “ICU outcomes and survival in patients with severe COVID-19 in the largest health care system in central Florida”
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https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0249038
Prayers up for him.
If anyone catches Covid, they need to start the nebulizing food grade diluted (with Medical sterile water) hydrogen peroxide 4x a day up to 1 hr a day just to keep it out of the lungs. Have them do it alone in their quarantine room. It will prevent covid getting in there. Can add liquid iodine to the mix. Dr mercola has detailed instructions.
There are excellent support groups on reddit, many survivors telling their stories (vents) over and over again
for those who need hope.
They try to encourage others but never give weird medical advice like here. Most of them became long haulers, sadly.
Google r/covidlonghaulers
and also r/covid-19Positive
Some of the kindest most supportive people you could find.
Prayers up.