re: Pregnant wife w/ fever for the past 4 days. Update: Got da Rona- wound up in hospital

We’re home. She had a full work up and they say everything is fine minus the Covid . They were worried about her elevated heart rate but did a bunch of tests and could t really find anything. Now to battle this beast at home. Definitely eye opening as to what this virus can do.

Glad that y’all are back home after getting some fluids! That’s always the biggest concern with such high fevers that keep recurring. I would stress not to go to urgent care anymore for the duration of the pregnancy, especially after 24 weeks. The fetus is considered viable at that time and your wife’s doctor will have to assess the well being of your wife and the fetus at that point. Best wishes with getting over this hump and hope for an uneventful remainder of the pregnancy.

Get her on that vitamin C, Zinc, and Vitamin D. Get that immune system rolling

So sorry I didn’t give an update.

She had low grade fever on and off since Friday. Negative test on Sunday when fever started being higher. Fever kept spiking to 103-104 every 6 hours when the meds wore off. I made her go to the urgent care on Tuesday night and She tested positive. heart rate was really high so they kept her and gave iv fluids to try and keep her out of the ER. It didn’t go down so they sent her. She had every test under the sun and they couldn’t figure out why the heart rate wouldn’t go down still. Everything else looked normal and baby looked good from what they could tell then. Chest X-ray and lungs were normal. She started getting shortness of breath on Thursday and a nurse called and sent her back to the Er.

This is where things got scary:

They admitted her and did another chest X-ray that revealed severe pneumonia in that 1.5 day period. Heart rate was above 140 and she now relied on oxygen to keep her numbers above 90%.Started her on remdisivir and tons of antibiotics. Each day she got a little better with heart rate going down a bit and was less reliant on the oxygen. She was released from the hospital this afternoon and back home. As far as we know everything is fine with our baby . The Dr was in constant communication with the OB and made sure all treatments were safe for the baby. This last week was scary as frick . I totally underestimated this virus and just thought it would be a flu type sickness. This isn’t the case for pregnant woman since they fall under immunocompromised.

Thanks for the thought and here’s praying that we can both have non eventful pregnancies from here on out.

Yea scary doesn’t cover it. Heart rate was crazy, and oxygen rate was tanking. The first two days in the hospital were not good. Plus Covid rules only allowed me to visit once a day and had to be gone by 6pm. Also my kids were exposed so couldn’t really find many people to watch them while I went to the hospital to be with her. Wound up basically finding people who already had the virus to watch the kids.

The remdisivir was a fricken miracle drug.

I’m disappointed your 1st thought wasn’t to start a go fund me

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Hoping it’s a smooth ride the rest of the way. Keeping you and your family in my thoughts...

It was tongue in cheek, from the gump guy. Glad your wife and baby are doing well... I’m currently in isolation as well with Rona on day 3. No sob so I’m hoping I have no complications. Think my wife is definitely going to get it because she won’t leave me alone.... think she is mad I have to isolate in spare BR/bath while she takes care of our 2 kids

She’s already started with sinus pressure/drainage so I think she is in early stages... but they are still letting her work and I have to keep kids at home with me all day since school won’t let them back

My pregnant wife and I both got it. She was about 20 weeks along when we tested positive and thank god we both had mild cases. I went on a deep dive into case studies of pregnant women with COVID. Neither of us ever got a fever. She had a bit of a head cold for 4-5 days and that was about it. I had what is comparable to a mild seasonal cold. Only triggering event for me to get tested was losing my sense of smell. Got that back in 2-3 days. Neither of us ever had weakness, shortness of breath, or any of the other common symptoms, but thank god. This is our first child and we were on edge for the first few days for sure.

OP happy to hear your wife and the baby came out on the other side. I can’t imagine how scary that must have been, especially with two other children at home.