Posted on 06/16/2020 5:52:13 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A Dallas woman is detailing her battle with not one but two rounds of coronavirus.
Over the weekend, Meredith McKee posted a tearful photo -- that's now been seen by more than 100,000 people -- from her hospital bed at Texas Health Presbyterian in Dallas.
McKee is sick with the coronavirus again, and she told NBC 5 she wouldn't wish it on her worst enemy.
"To be alone in the hospital and not have anyone, you know," McKee said tearfully.
McKee tested positive for COVID-19 in February. She was diagnosed after feeling "clear and obvious" symptoms.
"I had a dry cough like you would not believe. It would not stop,” McKee said.
She fought the virus from home and beat it. She even donated plasma twice after testing positive for antibodies, thinking she was in the clear.
"I felt great doing finally something good coming out of the hell that I’ve been through because I'm going to help up to eight people with this plasma,” McKee said.
But this past Friday, McKee went to the hospital with high blood pressure and a headache.
She never imagined -- four months later -- she'd test positive for COVID-19 again.
"I was floored when it was positive," McKee said of her diagnosis.
An epidemiologist at UT Southwestern -- not connected to McKee's case -- said catching the coronavirus twice is possible, but it appears to be uncommon.
"We don't really know how serious the illness is the second time compared to the first time," said Dr. Robert Haley with UT Southwestern.
A second positive test after a negative result may mean the virus is simply taking its time leaving the body, doctors said, and is no longer able to infect others.
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I had it. Pulmonologist confirmed my lungs are now a mess.
Getting it a second time might just bury me.
Still working, raising kids, trying to live, hoping I survive long enough to piss on Hillary’s grave.
It’s a virus, not any different from a cold (caused by corona virus and rhinovirus) or various strains of flu which come, go, and come again. At best any vaccine might be as effective as the yearly flu vaccines which is around 40 to 50%. This is no surprise.
I think of it as “the first jetliner”.
...or the reporting is less than zero.
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