Posted on 03/23/2020 8:06:41 AM PDT by Helicondelta
I have news that many Americans are facing right now: my husband John has the coronavirus. We just got the test results at 7 a.m. this morning. While I cannot see him and he is of course cut off from all visitors, our daughter Abigail and I are constantly calling and texting and emailing. We love him very much and pray for his recovery. He is exhausted and sick but a very strong and resilient person.
John started to feel sick when I was in Minnesota and he was in Washington D.C. and like so many others who have had the disease, he thought it was just a cold. Yet he immediately quarantined himself just in case and stopped going to his job teaching in Baltimore.
He kept having a temperature and a bad, bad cough and when he started coughing up blood he got a test and a chest X-ray and they checked him into a hospital in Virginia because of a variety of things including very low oxygen levels which haven’t really improved. He now has pneumonia and is on oxygen but not a ventilator.
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Absolutely. I worked in cancer detection for decades. Blood in sputum USUALLY turned out to be ok for the patient. Yes, it can be a symptom of cancer, but unless is it a large amount of blood, it is likely just broken blood vessels from hard coughing.
A woman in a Walmart was coughing up blood a few days ago.
Truly amazing how democrats and leftist are the hardest hit...
Good one.
Why is she sharing this?
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The pronoun ‘I’ appears 14 times within five short paragraphs. Seems excessively self-referential to me.
There was a report on a Covid positive who coughed up blood and later died.
May have had a deadly disease already, TB, cancer, etc...................
He's my brother-n-law's cousin and was at my sister's wedding. Most of his family members I know are conservative.
Usually means lung cancer
I want to know why Congress didn’t shut down gym and the pool. Are they special that they can go work out when gyms, pools all over USA shutdown?
Many things can lead to hemoptysis. Causes of coughing up blood include:
Bronchitis (acute or chronic), the most common cause of coughing up blood. Hemoptysis due to bronchitis is rarely life-threatening.
Bronchiectasis
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
Congestive heart failure, especially due to mitral stenosis
Crack cocaine use
Foreign objects in your airways
Inflammatory or autoimmune conditions (such as lupus, granulomatosis with polyangiitis, microscopic polyangiitis, Churg-Strauss syndrome)
Lung abscess
Lung cancer
Non-cancerous lung tumors
Parasitic infection
Pneumonia
Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (AVMs)
Pulmonary embolism
Trauma, such as a gunshot wound or car accident
Tuberculosis
Use of blood thinners (anticoagulation)
Hemoptysis can also come from bleeding outside your lungs and airways. Severe nosebleeds or vomiting up blood from your stomach can make blood drain into your windpipe (trachea). You cough up the blood, and it appears as hemoptysis.
Often, no cause is ever found. Unexplained hemoptysis usually goes away within 6 months.
https://www.webmd.com/lung/coughing-up-blood#1
You read my mind :)
I started coughing up blood two years ago. I didn’t feel ill, in fact I’d taken a three mile walk the day before. Once at the ER, I was diagnosed with severe bacterial pneumonia.
I had no symptoms prior as far as coughing, fever or anything. I had a bronchoscopy which revealed no underlying conditions or disease. I haven’t had one cigarette since that time. Yes, I was a smoker. I get a CT scan every 18 months and (knock wood) they’ve come out clear.
Hope Amy’s husband recovers well.
“Omar Sharif checked out in 2015”
Unfortunately IIan Omar checked into Congress in 2018. That was who the pun was referring to.
People that came in contact him would probably like to know...
Ah, thanks very much.
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