Posted on 03/15/2020 2:31:40 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Mark Frilot took medicines to treat what he thought for several days was a case of the flu, but he just couldn’t turn the corner.
His fever was spiking nightly. At one point, his wife, Heaven, found him on the edge of their tub talking to himself, delirious.
When he went to East Jefferson General Hospital on Thursday, the staff diagnosed him with double pneumonia and the new coronavirus. Since then the Kenner lawyer has been sedated and attached to a breathing machine as doctors help him fight the potentially deadly respiratory disease that has caused a worldwide pandemic.
Heaven Frilot she could hardly believe it. Her husband is 45, a construction litigator who is “never, ever sick.” But now, after seeing images of groups partying in New Orleans on Saturday despite the state’s request for people to practice “social distancing,” she is speaking up.
“It could happen to anybody,” Heaven Frilot said. “That’s all I’m trying to say.”
When the Frilots checked Mark into the ER the next day, they were astounded when staffers informed him a flu test had come back negative. Heaven Frilot said she asked the hospital to get her husband’s paperwork faxed over from the urgent care clinic. When the documents arrived, they showed he had been found negative for the flu there as well, despite the treatment plan he was given.
The hospital ran the test and, after several hours, it came back positive.
Heaven Frilot said the days since then have been a blur. Stricken with both COVID-19 and double pneumonia, Mark Frilot is in critical care and isolation. He consented to being given a paralytic drug, sedated and put on a ventilator, she said.
Essentially, the machine is breathing for him so his lungs can rest, Heaven Frilot said Sunday.
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I’m getting 7.8% without the 14 day delay.
I like the Lancet number better!
Paracetamol is the active ingredient in Panadol. I don’t think it’s sold in the US but it is non-prescription and is available online from international sellers. Typical adult dosage is 2x 500mg up to 4x daily. I have some from the last time I had pneumonia in Kuwait. I liked it so I bought some back.
Middle age people die from the flu! Who ever said otherwise! No one ever said the Flu wasn’t serious but somehow we handle it without shutting down our entire lives!
No one has ever said only old people are going to die, but that we don’t react to flu’s this way and they kill many more people each year. Amazing how you guys keep wanting to take what is being said out of context!
I seem to recall a number of FReepers claiming just that.
Also, we should perhaps treat flu more seriously. Every year, some idiot employee who’s clearly contagious comes into one of my clients instead of going home and staying there - and promptly infects the whole office. Just the kind of gift we always wanted, not.
Again, pretty sure I recall people here at FR saying that only old people were likely to die from this.
Yes. Great point.
The port is absolutely critical. Wonder how long this virus lingers on certain surfaces? Tourism will tank.
No conventions, no tourists. No spring festivals. Jazz Fest (May) may be postponed. And what exactly are our
politicians sacrificing? Not a Damn thing. They won’t suffer any of this.
Are you saying that some of us have been “lulled into a false sense of complacency”?
If you got the corona virus how would you treat the symptoms?
*I can tell you from experience that patients that had not visited China, Italy, or other hotspots weee denied testing for several weeks.*
We have close friends, a husband and wife, who were on a Caribbean cruise in mid-late February for 5 days. There were maybe 300 on the cruise total. These two got sick with bronchitis and pneumonia respectively about a week after their return. This was the very end of February, beginning of March. After a couple days at home, they made doctor appointments. They noted that they were out of the country and had fevers and other CoVid 19 symptoms, but there were no tests for it at that time. The husband got the worst of it, but they both stayed at home and in bed. Doctor diagnosed as pneumonia for him, and bronchitis for her. They both recovered about a week ago Wednesday but stayed home from work an extra day at the doctor’s insistence. We all think they had CoVid 19, but no tests were run on them. They have been in touch with others on the cruise, but so far, they are the only ones to experience these symptoms. They are wondering if they got it from someone on one of the 5 flights they took on this trip.
Thank you!
And now we know those recovering can shed the virus for 18-24 days after!
Seems “herd immunity” was the decision globally for this. Just let it burn through the populations and ‘burn out.’..
Perhaps good health before this, but he’s also an idiot to have such symptoms and not seek medical assistance as soon as it became obvious his lungs were compromised..
Kind of ironic - we know that the Deep State and others use fear as a way to steer and control the people - we had the commie/nuke war threat until the Berlin Wall came down then it wasn’t viable anymore and up pops Globull Warming, which has many in fear that we’re gonna destroy the Earth even as we do less harm than past generations and none of the data actually supports anything but the earth’s climate and Mother Nature do not now, and never did have a “balance” and even if they did, we have no idea of how to maintain one or ‘fix’ things...all our efforts end up causing more harm....the coronavirus scare is no different - the panic-induced knee-jerking will cause more harm than the virus.
Folks who would be up in arms if the government decided to tell them they could not move freely are now begging that same government to lock them, and everyone else, down....I’d wager if, after doing that, the story ‘evolved” they would also go meekly to barb-wire surrounded camps/tent cities because the “latest info” said that’s the only way to stop it.
Even though we know that they use fear to guide and control us, so many can’t see it through the red haze of insane panic....they not only welcome the government controls, they beg for them...
And the fear mongers will try to leverage it...
Reminds me of a saying, by Ben Franklin, that many FReepers, who are now acting insane, used to showcase:
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
Okay, for relief..IF you even get it...but grabbing 5x what you need and depriving other people is not the way to go.
VERY TRUE trebb and what is happening in America scares me a hell of a lot more than some damn virus!! SHEEPLE!!!
the virus made no noise while infecting Nola .
Now we have 158 cades .
17 from out of state.
Mostly new york .
another virus itself
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