60 percent of my staff got it in 2020. Hubby n i attended in person worship since May 2020. He was sick for two days Last week, fever broke. I tested positive (he cant get tested, no kits.. i am in healthcare). Day 2 was the sickest and the weakest day. The heart rates of 118 and 120 were frightening. He got sick again. Its not his history of 5 way bypass or any of that.
It is how he does sick.. he has never had a head cold that didn’t turn into pneumonia.
Me, I get sick about every 5 years for 24 hours. I will say the headache was terrible, i get one of those about every 5 years too. The weakness was incredible. If someone told me i would get a 5 million dollar bonus for going to work that day, i would’ve missed it. I think gripping the steering wheel and keeping my eyes open wouldve lasted about 1/3 of my short drive.
He is still not out of the woods completely but doc prescribed steroids and z pak.
He and i are terrified of going into the hospital. I worked at one in during 2020. I kept hearing stories of people in nursing homes surviving covid. I also saw what our ventilator protocol was like. Well i call respiratory therapists the grim reaper, for a reason. They arent writing the orders, so nothing but love for them.
In hindsight, i would say, if you are like my husband the injectable monoclonal antibodies would be great. The window closed and he didn’t get them.
We are also filing our medical directives with the state.
Do i have covid, is kinda like your first pregnancy wondering day after day if you are in labor, by the time You get to 5cm, you feel silly thinking anything was labor that your can sleep through.
God’s vaccine, my immune system. We have a saying in the lab.. what doesn’t kill me only makes me more immune.
My wife, my 96 year old MIL, and I got Covid in December of 20. I alone was sick enough to go to the hospital with pneumonia. They did nothing for me, but I did get a script for a broad spectrum antibiotic and a albuterol huffer. I had the diverse glass lung thing, like what they used to call walking pneumonia? It was a 2 week journey, I was frightened at times, mostly because of how easy it was to sleep LONG LONG TIMES, and easily fall back asleep again. I took triple doses of D3, Zinc, and eventually Quercitin after we found it available. Until then I drank 4 oz of Tonic with Quinine every 2 hours, and pickle juice. I also used a saline rinse in my sinuses 2-3 times a day. I lived and I was 40 lbs overweight, have cancer, and borderline diabetic. Looking back it wasn’t as bad as the flu I had in 1993, but it was close.
The worst part is the fear that everyone instills in you.