In January I was fine.
In February I was hospitalized with Covid symptoms.
In April, I was visiting a pulmonologist for the first time in my life. He looks at my scans and asks when I had Covid because my lungs were all scarred up.
By mid-April, I am confirmed with COPD.
It’s September. I now have emphysema, too.
Yeah, that was fast.
F China. Bastards cut years off my life. And f the people who claim it is just the flu. I had the flu before and shook it off easy. This was 10 times worse and left lasting damage.
And no, I am not overweight, don’t have kidney issues, or all the other stupid excuses people use. I was, until February of this year, a working wife and active mother of 3 kids (20, 18, and 14). Now, I have to ask my kids to help me clean my own darn house because I’m wiped after a week of work!
I don’t want pity, but don’t lie to my face and tell me this crap isn’t as bad as the flu. My lungs would strongly disagree.
“I don’t want pity, but don’t lie to my face and tell me this crap isn’t as bad as the flu. My lungs would strongly disagree.”
Your lungs are right.
My sincerest sympathy goes out to you, Writer. It sounds like you’ve gone through hell, a hell which isn’t over. I agree the virus isn’t the flu. However, for us, my lady and I, whatever we had, felt like a moderate flu bug with some Covid symptoms, which took a long time getting over, if we ever fully did. . . and we both have co-morbidities that put us at risk. We dodged the bullets. You did not. I’m glad you survived.
We think we may have been exposed in late December when we flew back to California to visit family. On our way we stopped for breakfast at a Denny’s Restaurant just north of Las Vegas. When we were seated we got a two top table next to a long table where they’d seated a large Chinese family of parents and many children with two grandparents. They were all loudly chattering away in Chinese and everyone of them was coughing and hacking. A few of the younger ones had face masks. It was soon apparent the Chinese family had just arrived from China. We couldn’t hear each other over the din, and when we finally got attention from a server we asked for another table, but the place was packed and none were available.
It was about a week and a half later we got sick.