I got SICK AS HECK from covid.
Definitely among the worst experiences of my lifed.
Then, like I tell folks, I got better.
My sister is a Nurse Practitioner and I asked her 2 or 3 times “should I get it?”
She said “no.” Even though I am considered very overweight.
That likely made the virus last longer and be more brutal.
But it beats dying or getting a stroke.
My MIL died of it.
But the rest of us - didn’t even call the doc, per se.
My own mother got it from her friend, who incidentally tested positive at the hospital a day after they got together. (She was at the hospital for on-going problems that hospitalized her several times over the year, not COVID - nor did she ever really suffer from it.)
So the only reason we “televisited” the doc was because mom had some symptoms and her friend had sounded the alarm. Mom got tested and was pos. Then me. Then so on and so on.
Glad you got much better.
And I had a Hopkins COVID-unit tech niece (worked a year from when it started) as well as mom’s brother doctor/SIL nurse. The latter completely skeptical of COVID hysteria and niece never had a problem and wasn’t hysterical about the disease (she now says she has had it with all of this).
Some got the shot - she and her family in their household, and my hubby. But they’re not nutso over it.
I got the J&J shot because I was wary of the RNA shot, since nothing like this had been done before; and, it seemed no real testing had been done. However, Hubby and I have decided we are not getting one of those shots again. Now that time has passed and side effects are being written about, I am not doing that again.
The fact that a lot of people involved in the medical system, are not taking this shot, and, telling others not to as well, tells me that I should pass on ever getting another shot.
My 84-year-old mother has horrible COPD. She tested positive and never had any symptom beyond a mild headache.
The difference? Very aggressive therapy treatment, including:
1) Having test kits ready at home (no 2-day appointments)
2) Getting antibody treatments within hours (in FL it was available 7 days a week until Biden turned off the spigot).
3) Having a drawer full of "horse dewormer" on hand.
4) Taking suppliments (esp. D3 + Zinc w/Quercetin) daily
This is all about to become ancient history, but at least we should know better how to deal with future viruses (including the good ol' flu).