My brother-in-law in Tennessee tested positive, got the result on the 21st, a Saturday, online. He’s 68 (69 on Mar. 22), he’s insulin dependent diabetic and has high BP. He hadn’t felt good for a week or week and a half prior, headaches and fatigue. On Wednesday, the 18th, he went for a scheduled epidural pain shot around 6 a.m.. (can’t recall what the pain shot was for, possibly an ailing hip and he was to have surgery for it too.) Thought it was odd that no one asked him if he was feeling okay. By Friday he was super fatigued, was going to take my sister to a dentist appt. but he was too tired to do it, one of their sons took her instead.
By Saturday, the 21st, he was really out of it, called his doctor who then called an ambulance for him. Once at the ER, his blood sugar was 500 and his oxygen level was in the 70’s. He was touch and go for a while, put on 7 liters of oxygen I think it was. In days that followed he was very belligerent, in a total fog or haze, didn’t know where he was, kept ripping out his IV, unresponsive to questions asked. Around Christmas he was given vapotherm, to push more oxygen than regular oxygen therapy. Because of his belligerence, he was sedated and treated for alcohol withdrawal symptoms, not sure he was really in withdrawal, not a full blown alkie but perhaps a daily drinker of sorts. He was also moved to ICU once given the vapotherm. By Christmas he was no longer on any sedation medication and he was given remdizivir, plasma and steroids. He was still in a fog throughout the first month.
After his hospital stay he spent 2 or 3 weeks in a rehab. He was weak, lost 20 lbs. Came home January 27th.
Somehow my 66 yr. old sister (67 tomorrow) didn’t catch it from him. She has pretty bad COPD. But she tested positive last week, possibly caught it from her cleaning lady who had it. Guessing the cleaning lady didn’t know she had it when she was there and she had been visiting her father in Florida who had it. My sister, thankfully, only felt like she had a head cold and then lost her sense of taste and smell. She tested her sense of smell by smelling some clorox, one of her sons’s suggestions, and she smelled nothing. My sister is totally fine, no fever, no other symptoms. Her and her husband live separate lives in their house, separate bedrooms, they don’t eat supper together, don’t watch tv together, 43 yrs. of married bliss, lol. I think that may have helped her not to catch it from him. Her blood type is 0+ and his is B or B+..think her blood type saved her, too.
Brother-in-law tested positive in NOVEMBER...left November out above..
Your brother-in-law sounds a lot like my friend’s cousin. He’s been in the hospital with it since early January, sedated and on a ventilator all of February. The docs are now trying to bring him out of sedation and slowly wean him off the ventilator, but it’s a long process. He has good days and bad. Some days he responds to touch, other days he doesn’t. He will need covid rehab and physical therapy to get him moving. We just keep praying and wait for the next update.