Thank you for the reminders on the prone position and breathing exercizes. I had mentioned that to him earlier in the week. I just texted him and he said “Yeah, I’ve been laying on my stomach a lot.”
Just got off the phone with the doctor. Forgot to ask what his oxygen numbers are. Doc said he was on maximum flow before he needs to be put on a ventaltor. But - his breathing was not labored and his appearance was better than last night in spite of his poor oxygen levels so the doctor is taking that as a good sign.
Too far gone for antibody infusions. Asked him about HCQ and ivermectin. He said that those are not approved protocals, blah, blah, blah. I asked him what harm would it do - especially the ivermection. “Well, we don’t want to do anything that might interfere with the proven standards of treatment, etc.”
He said that they are doing everything that they can for him. And if ivermectin was proven effective tomorrow he would give it to him. I didn’t want to argue with the guy - just thanked him for taking care of our son. But it seems to me with all the various reports from around the globe of the success of Ivermectin it is worth a shot.
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Dear Lord - please give Cody’s body your healing power. Our abilities, our medicines, our knowledge is weak and confused. But You are not. Strengthen every little cell, every piece of lung tissue. Let every molecule of oxygen be beneficial to the healing powers of his body. I know that it is not your will for Cody to die, and so I pray that YOUR will be done. Help him to rest and strengthen.
Your wife should start doing the breathing exercises just in case. It strengthens the lungs and when you cough it helps get rid of the phlegm.
There is a video of what JK Rowling did to help her with her Covid.
If you have a spirometer you can use that. You can get them from Amazon. Or you can do the same thing without the spirometer
“...we don’t want to do anything that might interfere with the proven standards of treatment”
I’m always surprised by that. It doesn’t seem there really is any agreed-upon standard of treatment. Perhaps ask his doc to tell you exactly what treatment he is using on your son and then get some second opinions on that approach?