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re: I lost a good friend to Covid this morning. Was his progression typical?
Posted on 2/6/22 at 7:15 pm to L.A.
Posted on 2/6/22 at 7:15 pm to L.A.
Coworkers husband died after a 3-4 week battle in the ICU. This was in August time frame when LA was dealing with Delta. I can remember some positive FB posts until his lungs ended up being too scarred.
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Posted on 2/6/22 at 7:16 pm to L.A.
Sorry for your loss.
Yes, that’s typical
Yes, that’s typical
Posted on 2/6/22 at 7:17 pm to L.A.
The old adage "that which does not kill me makes me stronger!" is generally bullshite when it comes to the medical profession. A bad relationship? Maybe. A prolonged hospital stay? No.
Major surgeries, organ transplants, life-threatening illnesses...they leave a mark, in the form of serious complications and permanent damage. Some of the chest X-rays of people who barely survived Covid look like an asbestos worker who smoked two packs a day. Not good, but better than the alternative I suppose.
Posted on 2/6/22 at 7:19 pm to L.A.
Sorry dude. That sucks
This post was edited on 2/6/22 at 7:19 pm
Posted on 2/6/22 at 7:20 pm to northshorebamaman
quote:
Can you define "turn for the worst"?
He died...
Posted on 2/6/22 at 7:21 pm to L.A.
Sorry for your loss
Posted on 2/6/22 at 7:31 pm to L.A.
The same happened for my mother in law last November. She was elderly (had my wife at 42), but relatively healthy compared to most her age. Would go back and forth with various issues, but would be better after a couple of days.
Just like your situation, in the fourth week she took a turn for the worse and went downhill quickly over the course of a weekend and passed away.
Just like your situation, in the fourth week she took a turn for the worse and went downhill quickly over the course of a weekend and passed away.
This post was edited on 2/6/22 at 7:32 pm
Posted on 2/6/22 at 7:31 pm to L.A.
Sorry about your friend..
From what I can tell from personal experience sand what I have observed in others... 4-5 days is key. If you aren't in a steep climb out of Covid on days 4-5, you are likely in for a long fight.
I cleared the vid in 4 days... My wife didn't improve after day 4 and by day 7 she got worse. Her symptoms were the worst 14 days in. She baby step improved the last week and cleared it on day 25. She ran fever everyday and had pneumonia after day 7.
It seems your body can figure it out and efficiently kill it or it runs you over. Just my 2 cents.
I have heard many get real sick, then improve before getting real sick again. On day 10 my wife thought she was better. She felt fine one day then was crushed the following day.
From what I can tell from personal experience sand what I have observed in others... 4-5 days is key. If you aren't in a steep climb out of Covid on days 4-5, you are likely in for a long fight.
I cleared the vid in 4 days... My wife didn't improve after day 4 and by day 7 she got worse. Her symptoms were the worst 14 days in. She baby step improved the last week and cleared it on day 25. She ran fever everyday and had pneumonia after day 7.
It seems your body can figure it out and efficiently kill it or it runs you over. Just my 2 cents.
I have heard many get real sick, then improve before getting real sick again. On day 10 my wife thought she was better. She felt fine one day then was crushed the following day.
Posted on 2/6/22 at 8:30 pm to ShermanTxTiger
Are they doing early therapeutics such as monoclonal antibodies or invermectin or is that still out? I don't like this idea of getting covid and then doing nothing but just sit around hoping it doesn't go south.
Posted on 2/6/22 at 8:41 pm to redstick13
In late July of last year I got Covid. I actually got tested and confirmed positive on a Tuesday. I took the recommended dosage of Ivermectin on Wednesday but continued going downhill. On Thursday I found a place to get the infusion but felt so bad that I couldn’t get out of bed to go. By Friday I tried to get into the ER but every hospital around was full so we backtracked and went to a minor emergency clinic under Memorial Hermann and 14 hours later I was on an ambulance to their big hospital in Humble, TX with double pneumonia and a Pulse Ox in the 80’s.
I was in ICU where they did everything they could but ultimately they gave me the decision 6 days later to basically go on the vent or die. My choice and the odds of coming off the vent weren’t much better per my Dr. They said less than 10%. I made the decision to go on the vent after lots of praying, made some rough burial arrangements with my wife, went over life insurance, and finally called my kids and told them I loved them. All of that was really a blur honestly. I don’t remember anything while on the vent other than some pretty wild hallucinations. About day 4 on the vent they told my wife I probably wasn’t gonna make it. It was pretty rough from what I was told. My wife was pretty torn up. My family and friends back in Monroe held a prayer vigil for me at the Methodist church we used to belong too. Well I survived that day and started to recover bit by bit and on Day 7 of being on the vent, the docs thought I was good enough to try to come off and I did.
That was the start of a pretty rough 3 weeks of being on constant Oxygen and being extremely weak but I made it out of ICU and ultimately out of the hospital into rehab. After a full month in the hospital I started an uphill road to recovery after losing almost 40 pounds and pretty much all my strength. I know you ask what underlying conditions did I have and was I vaxxed? Well I had none and yes I was. I was 49 and maybe in the best shape of my life. I trained hard, lifted hard, ate clean, and was on top of all the things I thought I needed to have my immunity in balance to not get this shite this bad. I literally was the last dude anybody would thought would get beat down like this from CoVid but there I was. Well that was almost 6 months ago and by the grace of God I am still here and pretty much back to 100%.
Sorry for the War and Peace. That’s maybe the first time I really typed that whole ordeal out in words.
I was in ICU where they did everything they could but ultimately they gave me the decision 6 days later to basically go on the vent or die. My choice and the odds of coming off the vent weren’t much better per my Dr. They said less than 10%. I made the decision to go on the vent after lots of praying, made some rough burial arrangements with my wife, went over life insurance, and finally called my kids and told them I loved them. All of that was really a blur honestly. I don’t remember anything while on the vent other than some pretty wild hallucinations. About day 4 on the vent they told my wife I probably wasn’t gonna make it. It was pretty rough from what I was told. My wife was pretty torn up. My family and friends back in Monroe held a prayer vigil for me at the Methodist church we used to belong too. Well I survived that day and started to recover bit by bit and on Day 7 of being on the vent, the docs thought I was good enough to try to come off and I did.
That was the start of a pretty rough 3 weeks of being on constant Oxygen and being extremely weak but I made it out of ICU and ultimately out of the hospital into rehab. After a full month in the hospital I started an uphill road to recovery after losing almost 40 pounds and pretty much all my strength. I know you ask what underlying conditions did I have and was I vaxxed? Well I had none and yes I was. I was 49 and maybe in the best shape of my life. I trained hard, lifted hard, ate clean, and was on top of all the things I thought I needed to have my immunity in balance to not get this shite this bad. I literally was the last dude anybody would thought would get beat down like this from CoVid but there I was. Well that was almost 6 months ago and by the grace of God I am still here and pretty much back to 100%.
Sorry for the War and Peace. That’s maybe the first time I really typed that whole ordeal out in words.
Posted on 2/6/22 at 8:42 pm to L.A.
Bet they gave him Tylenol for fever, waited for him to be half dead then put him on a vent to finish him off.
Posted on 2/6/22 at 8:42 pm to DTRooster
Jesus
Posted on 2/6/22 at 8:51 pm to L.A.
quote:Rest In Peace
good friend
Posted on 2/6/22 at 8:56 pm to MWP
Sitting here in day 4 of Covid. Second bout w it. Your story just scared a little bit of piss right outta me.
I think I’m better but wasn’t really that sick to know.
I think I’m better but wasn’t really that sick to know.
Posted on 2/6/22 at 8:57 pm to L.A.
Thanks for the responses, everyone. Lots of similar, sad stories about your friends and loved ones whose experience with Covid was similar to my friend's. I appreciate you taking the time to respond
Posted on 2/6/22 at 9:00 pm to MWP
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MWP
Man, sorry to hear you had such a rough time. Glad you didnt give up and still here!
Posted on 2/6/22 at 9:02 pm to L.A.
I don't know what typical really all I can tell is my brother's experience. He went in the hospital on a Monday, last day I talked to him was on the phone Friday. Saturday he went on a vent and he died Tuesday morning. 60 years old, overweight, diabetes and what likely did him was a bad case of COPD. I honestly thought he was done when he was put on the vent and he was.
Posted on 2/6/22 at 9:02 pm to AmosMosesAndTwins
Jesus got nothing to do with the bs going on. Conversation when I got the Vid verbatim.
“ Have you been vaccinated?”
“No”
“ We’ll that was a bad decision, I’m sorry”
“well do I have it or not?”
“Yes, you have it”
“So what now?”
“There’s nothing much we can do. Take Tylenol for fever and if your blood oxygen drops into the 80s or you have trouble breathing go to the hospital”
“So you’re telling me go home and see if I live or die? What about monoclonals or other prophylactics? “
“The CDC says monoclonals don’t work on Omicron and no prophylactics are effective”
“ Bitch, thanks for nothing and don’t think you will get paid for that nothing. Me or nobody I know will waste a cent to your hack arse ever again Believe that”
Thanks to fate or apple flavored horse paste from Tractor Supply, vita D,C and Zinc I’m still alive and kicking and will curse that bitch until I leave this earth
“ Have you been vaccinated?”
“No”
“ We’ll that was a bad decision, I’m sorry”
“well do I have it or not?”
“Yes, you have it”
“So what now?”
“There’s nothing much we can do. Take Tylenol for fever and if your blood oxygen drops into the 80s or you have trouble breathing go to the hospital”
“So you’re telling me go home and see if I live or die? What about monoclonals or other prophylactics? “
“The CDC says monoclonals don’t work on Omicron and no prophylactics are effective”
“ Bitch, thanks for nothing and don’t think you will get paid for that nothing. Me or nobody I know will waste a cent to your hack arse ever again Believe that”
Thanks to fate or apple flavored horse paste from Tractor Supply, vita D,C and Zinc I’m still alive and kicking and will curse that bitch until I leave this earth
Posted on 2/6/22 at 9:26 pm to DTRooster
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and will curse that bitch until I leave this earth
Posted on 2/6/22 at 9:33 pm to Ba Ba Boooey
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She looked to be over the worst and moving into recovery. Three weeks later, she woke up that morning and told my wife something was wrong. Within 2 hours, she spiked a fever, all of her vitals and labs started going downhill again, she went into multi organ system failure and passed away in the blink of an eye.
That's scary.
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