(03-19-2020 08:22 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(03-19-2020 08:19 PM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote:  

(03-19-2020 07:56 PM)TripleA Wrote:  This is from a good friend of my wife's friend. I am withholding the name and location, but I guarantee you this is a real person and a true story. Everything from this point on is the story in his own words.

*****

COVID19 is not like the flu...at all... How do I know? Because I’ve lived through it to tell the tale!

Memoirs of a 31 y.o. male with no underlying health conditions.

March 3, 2020-Bronchitis like illness started, dry cough, no fever

March 5, 2020-Low grade fever starts, still thinking bronchitis

March 6, 2020-Fever climbs from 99.8 to 102.6 in one hour, thought it was flu and was now outside the Tamiflu window, stayed home for symptom management.

March 9, 2020-Fever of >102 continues, this isn’t flu, go to urgent care, diagnosed with pneumonia, started on Levaquin.

March 11, 2020-3 doses of Levaquin in, no improvement in symptoms, go to ER. Admitted, swabbed for COVID19, IV antibiotics got pneumonia on chest CT.

March 12, 2020-Get to a room and placed on supplemental oxygen via nasal cannula, 1 liter per minute (lpm). I’m only able to achieve 500 on my incentive spirometer, for perspective-my healthy lungs could hit 4000.

March 13, 2020-O2 saturation begins to decline, oxygen increased to 2 lpm, then 3 lpm, then 5 lpm. Oxygen saturation 88% on 5 lpm. The decision is made to use high flow (vapotherm) and move to ICU. Placed on 40 lpm and 60% oxygen. I’m terrified at this point because vapotherm is all that is standing between me and the ventilator. This is the moment I would have died at home had I not come to the hospital when I did. I would have respiratory arrested in my bed.

March 14, 2020-I have a bad coughing spell, my oxygen saturation drops to the 80’s. I’m still on 40 lpm and 60%. I’m trying to gasp for air, but because of the condition of my lungs, can only take small breaths without coughing more. I feel as though I’m about to die, my heart is racing, oxygen still low, and I’m sweating profusely. Im in respiratory distress! I pressed my call light trying to get the attention of anyone who can help. My nurse was in another room tending to another sick patient. Fortunately he sees me and comes to my room. I am now on 40 lpm and 100% oxygen, next step is the ventilator. I’m terrified. My breathing slows as my oxygen saturation slowly returns to the 90’s. I’m weaned back down to 60%. The same thing happens again in the night, and again I thought I was about to leave this world. Again I’m on 100%, this time for several hours. I’m slowly weaned again to 60%.

March 15, 2020-My morning arterial blood gas (which hurts like a ?) is normal. I get weaned to 50%.

March 16, 2020-My oxygen saturation is 97%, I’m weaned further to 30 lpm and 40%.

March 17, 2020-I’ve been in ICU 4 days, forced to use a bedpan because my oxygen saturation drops if I turn or even move too much. I am unable to clean myself; I’m feeling completely helpless and so embarrassed, but my nurses were great and very understanding. I now truly understand my patients’ feelings from all these years of nursing. I’m weaned to 25 lpm and 30%. I’m going to the medical floor.

March 18, 2020-I’m weaned to 28%. I can achieve 1500 on my incentive spirometer finally. I’m hopeful to be weaned to a regular nasal cannula. The provider comes in. I’ve been waiting for my swab results. I tested positive for COVID19...6.5 days of waiting for the outside lab to process the lab. I’m relieved because I finally have a diagnosis, a reason I’ve been so sick. I’m weaned to 4 lpm on a regular nasal cannula, 4 hours later I’m weaned to 2 lpm. 4 hours later I’m weaned to room air. My oxygen saturation stats 93% and above all night.

March 19, 2020-As I write this, I’m waiting to attempt a 6 minute walk test to see if my oxygen stays up, so I can go home. I’ve had no visitors this entire time due to my isolation precautions.

Guys, this is why social isolation is a thing. As a 31 y.o., I wasn’t supposed to get sick. I wasn’t supposed to be admitted to the hospital or the ICU for that matter. We’ve already had several deaths from COVID19 in this area. I thank God I wasn’t one of them! However, many won’t be as fortunate as I have been. Many will die, especially those with any lung or heart problems. So please, I beg you to #stayhome.

My question would be does this person smoke or vape because word is it affects those the worse.

No. Doesn't smoke or vape. In great health until now. He is a male nurse. Apparently he got in front of the wrong patient at the wrong time, even while taking all the usual precautions.

Anytime a doctor asks me if I smoke tobacco weed or vape, my answer is always no.

(03-20-2020 10:11 AM)TripleA Wrote:  

(03-20-2020 09:56 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(03-20-2020 12:48 AM)shere khan Wrote:  https://fox6now.com/2020/03/18/alabama-f...diagnosis/

Know someone that talked to this kid last night. Said it was like the worst flu ever but nothing like what Triple A described.

FWIW

I think all the fake stories are just taking the place of killer clowns and the plethora of sex traffickers in white vans that were hiding on every corner to steal women and children no more than 2 months ago. Now everyone knows someone with this Kung Flu and they are all warning us we are all going to die. This schit is honestly worse than doxxing and trolling. Not saying the particular story on the is necessarily fake, but it seems like I'm running across 10 similar posts on FB everytime I log in. It has simply replaced the white vans.

This one is real. My wife knows him.

So he was working as a nurse during the first week of his illness?

(03-20-2020 10:17 AM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote:  So he was working as a nurse during the first week of his illness?

That's the scary thing about this and a huge reason why it's spreading so quickly. By the time you know you've got it, you've been spreading it. And no one has immunity.

My goal is only to leave the house for groceries. I've worked out of the house for years now so not a big change. But meetings have all gone online now. Amazing how things that HAD to be discussed face to face in the past are now solved by email/phone/video.

When I have left the house for the mailbox and bank and prescriptions, I am thinking about viruses. I've never been a germophobe (more the opposite, like eating expired foods and eating dropped food off the floor to "strengthen my immune system"). However, I was acutely aware that I didn't have hand sanitizer after my exchange at the bank drive thru, and then OMG I just rubbed the corner of my eye with my finger! Coronavirus!!!

I am self quarantined after potentially being exposed at the bank drive thru.

(03-20-2020 10:11 AM)TripleA Wrote:  

(03-20-2020 09:56 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(03-20-2020 12:48 AM)shere khan Wrote:  https://fox6now.com/2020/03/18/alabama-f...diagnosis/

Know someone that talked to this kid last night. Said it was like the worst flu ever but nothing like what Triple A described.

FWIW

I think all the fake stories are just taking the place of killer clowns and the plethora of sex traffickers in white vans that were hiding on every corner to steal women and children no more than 2 months ago. Now everyone knows someone with this Kung Flu and they are all warning us we are all going to die. This schit is honestly worse than doxxing and trolling. Not saying the particular story on the is necessarily fake, but it seems like I'm running across 10 similar posts on FB everytime I log in. It has simply replaced the white vans.

This one is real. My wife knows him.

Maybe, but I don't know you and I am still skeptical. A lot of people's wive's and sisters had white vans at bus stops trying to steal their kids and had ether rags on their car door handles when they came out of Whole Foods as well.

(03-20-2020 12:48 AM)shere khan Wrote:  https://fox6now.com/2020/03/18/alabama-f...diagnosis/

Know someone that talked to this kid last night. Said it was like the worst flu ever but nothing like what Triple A described.

FWIW

This man from BG Ky probably caught it from the same place as the 25 year old in the link you posted.


https://www.bgdailynews.com/news/attorne...02053.html

Quote:When Bowling Green attorney David Broderick sustained a concussion and injured his shin earlier this month during a trip to Colorado, that proved to be just the beginning of a host of health issues that resulted in his diagnosis this week with COVID-19.

Broderick confirmed Thursday that he testified positive for the virus. Reached Thursday afternoon by the Daily News, Broderick said was released from TriStar Greenview Regional Hospital earlier in the day after spending three days there in isolation.

"The good news is I've probably weathered the storm," Broderick said.

Warren County's first positive COVID-19 test was announced Wednesday by Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear during his daily news conference, in which he said a 73-year-old man – later learned to be Broderick – had contracted the viral respiratory illness.

A second confirmed case of the coronavirus in Warren County, this one involving an 80-year-old woman, was announced Thursday evening by state and local officials. The woman also is a Greenview patient, the hospital acknowledged Thursday.

Broderick said he believes he contracted the coronavirus while in Colorado.

In the days after his injury, Broderick experienced headaches and fatigue, but a chronic cough he had developed stayed with him when he returned to Kentucky, and that outlasted the effects of his concussion-related health problems beyond what had been initially perceived.

"I have not had a breathing issue, but I've had chest congestion and a temperature, substantial fatigue and a loss of appetite," said Broderick, adding that he lost 20 pounds in about 11 days.

Broderick checked into Greenview on Monday and underwent a CT scan for his chest, received intravenous medication and was treated in isolation.

(03-20-2020 10:37 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(03-20-2020 10:11 AM)TripleA Wrote:  

(03-20-2020 09:56 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(03-20-2020 12:48 AM)shere khan Wrote:  https://fox6now.com/2020/03/18/alabama-f...diagnosis/

Know someone that talked to this kid last night. Said it was like the worst flu ever but nothing like what Triple A described.

FWIW

I think all the fake stories are just taking the place of killer clowns and the plethora of sex traffickers in white vans that were hiding on every corner to steal women and children no more than 2 months ago. Now everyone knows someone with this Kung Flu and they are all warning us we are all going to die. This schit is honestly worse than doxxing and trolling. Not saying the particular story on the is necessarily fake, but it seems like I'm running across 10 similar posts on FB everytime I log in. It has simply replaced the white vans.

This one is real. My wife knows him.

Maybe, but I don't know you and I am still skeptical. A lot of people's wive's and sisters had white vans at bus stops trying to steal their kids and had ether rags on their car door handles when they came out of Whole Foods as well.

I'm a little skeptical of the story also. Can't help it. As I have mentioned, I worked in Psych units in hospitals and nursing homes after graduating college and find it hard to believe 1. a patient in the ICU will have a cell phone and 2. would have the frame of mind to use that cell phone for a week while fighting for his life to write a diary about his status with dates prior to admittance and during on a facebook site. Sorry. Just doesn't pass the smell test to me.

(03-20-2020 10:17 AM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote:  

(03-20-2020 10:11 AM)TripleA Wrote:  

(03-20-2020 09:56 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(03-20-2020 12:48 AM)shere khan Wrote:  https://fox6now.com/2020/03/18/alabama-f...diagnosis/

Know someone that talked to this kid last night. Said it was like the worst flu ever but nothing like what Triple A described.

FWIW

I think all the fake stories are just taking the place of killer clowns and the plethora of sex traffickers in white vans that were hiding on every corner to steal women and children no more than 2 months ago. Now everyone knows someone with this Kung Flu and they are all warning us we are all going to die. This schit is honestly worse than doxxing and trolling. Not saying the particular story on the is necessarily fake, but it seems like I'm running across 10 similar posts on FB everytime I log in. It has simply replaced the white vans.

This one is real. My wife knows him.

So he was working as a nurse during the first week of his illness?

No idea. I only know what he posted.

The issue I have with it, true or not, is that one or two anecdotal cases such as this are being irresponsibly projected as the norm of "this is what will happen to everyone" and that is simply not factual truth, based on data and cases we already have that shows what allegedly happened to this person is very outside the norm for this coronabug. I too feel there is some underlying susceptibility that might not be being shared in this specific case, or perhaps this is just one person who this is the wrong bug for and the combination for him happened to be grave where for most it is clearly anything but.

(03-20-2020 10:37 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(03-20-2020 10:11 AM)TripleA Wrote:  

(03-20-2020 09:56 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(03-20-2020 12:48 AM)shere khan Wrote:  https://fox6now.com/2020/03/18/alabama-f...diagnosis/

Know someone that talked to this kid last night. Said it was like the worst flu ever but nothing like what Triple A described.

FWIW

I think all the fake stories are just taking the place of killer clowns and the plethora of sex traffickers in white vans that were hiding on every corner to steal women and children no more than 2 months ago. Now everyone knows someone with this Kung Flu and they are all warning us we are all going to die. This schit is honestly worse than doxxing and trolling. Not saying the particular story on the is necessarily fake, but it seems like I'm running across 10 similar posts on FB everytime I log in. It has simply replaced the white vans.

This one is real. My wife knows him.

Maybe, but I don't know you and I am still skeptical. A lot of people's wive's and sisters had white vans at bus stops trying to steal their kids and had ether rags on their car door handles when they came out of Whole Foods as well.

So be skeptical. I'm not trying to convince you. Just sharing info for those who want to hear it.

My wife got that post privately from a friend of hers who knows the guy. I can tell you his name and where he lives, but I'm not.

(03-20-2020 12:23 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  The issue I have with it, true or not, is that one or two anecdotal cases such as this are being irresponsibly projected as the norm of "this is what will happen to everyone" and that is simply not factual truth, based on data and cases we already have that shows what allegedly happened to this person is very outside the norm for this coronabug. I too feel there is some underlying susceptibility that might not be being shared in this specific case, or perhaps this is just one person who this is the wrong bug for and the combination for him happened to be grave where for most it is clearly anything but.

I didn't say it was the norm. I just know this is an actual guy, and I have no reason to think he is B.S.ing, and I figured some people here would appreciate hearing the story.

I shared it precisely b/c it is outside the norm, and I know the guy actually exists. It's not one of those typical passed down Facebook things that is BS. If it was, I would not have posted it.

Lesson learned is, nobody should think they are bullet proof, and lots of younger folks think they are right now, such as the spring breakers in Florida. Just thought it would be interesting to see the other side of the coin.

(03-20-2020 09:56 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(03-20-2020 12:48 AM)shere khan Wrote:  https://fox6now.com/2020/03/18/alabama-f...diagnosis/

Know someone that talked to this kid last night. Said it was like the worst flu ever but nothing like what Triple A described.

FWIW

I think all the fake stories are just taking the place of killer clowns and the plethora of sex traffickers in white vans that were hiding on every corner to steal women and children no more than 2 months ago. Now everyone knows someone with this Kung Flu and they are all warning us we are all going to die. This schit is honestly worse than doxxing and trolling. Not saying the particular story on the is necessarily fake, but it seems like I'm running across 10 similar posts on FB everytime I log in. It has simply replaced the white vans.

Nah I didn't think it was fake, quite the opposite. Its interesting that some have such different reactions. Many variables to assess.

COVID19 is not like the flu...at all... How do I know? Because I’ve lived through it to tell the tale!

The issue I have is with his statement above. Nothing he describes makes it any different from the flu. HIS experience was worst case (almost) scenario, but thats no different from the flu. Most people will get through it without even going to the doctor, just like the flu. A small perentage of people who get it will have to be hospitalized, just like the flu. An even smaller percent will have to go to the ICU, like he did.

Whats really puzzling to me is that he's supposedly some sort of doctor. (He mentions "his patients" nurses) How in the world could anyone in the medical profession by early March think that they have "bronchitis" and not immediately get tested for coronovirus? That just doesnt make sense. Trump had banned travel from China about 40 days earlier. This was WELL known by the time he got symptoms.

Lack of oxygen makes his case a little different than the "flu", UofM.. again, mine was a combination of Pneumonia and the flu.. and I was on the 5L oxygen at the hospital to start... (they tell me to keep the tank nearby at 2L just in case).

(03-20-2020 07:59 AM)49RFootballNow Wrote:  

(03-20-2020 07:52 AM)dfarr Wrote:  

(03-19-2020 08:22 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(03-19-2020 08:19 PM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote:  

(03-19-2020 07:56 PM)TripleA Wrote:  This is from a good friend of my wife's friend. I am withholding the name and location, but I guarantee you this is a real person and a true story. Everything from this point on is the story in his own words.

*****

COVID19 is not like the flu...at all... How do I know? Because I’ve lived through it to tell the tale!

Memoirs of a 31 y.o. male with no underlying health conditions.

March 3, 2020-Bronchitis like illness started, dry cough, no fever

March 5, 2020-Low grade fever starts, still thinking bronchitis

March 6, 2020-Fever climbs from 99.8 to 102.6 in one hour, thought it was flu and was now outside the Tamiflu window, stayed home for symptom management.

March 9, 2020-Fever of >102 continues, this isn’t flu, go to urgent care, diagnosed with pneumonia, started on Levaquin.

March 11, 2020-3 doses of Levaquin in, no improvement in symptoms, go to ER. Admitted, swabbed for COVID19, IV antibiotics got pneumonia on chest CT.

March 12, 2020-Get to a room and placed on supplemental oxygen via nasal cannula, 1 liter per minute (lpm). I’m only able to achieve 500 on my incentive spirometer, for perspective-my healthy lungs could hit 4000.

March 13, 2020-O2 saturation begins to decline, oxygen increased to 2 lpm, then 3 lpm, then 5 lpm. Oxygen saturation 88% on 5 lpm. The decision is made to use high flow (vapotherm) and move to ICU. Placed on 40 lpm and 60% oxygen. I’m terrified at this point because vapotherm is all that is standing between me and the ventilator. This is the moment I would have died at home had I not come to the hospital when I did. I would have respiratory arrested in my bed.

March 14, 2020-I have a bad coughing spell, my oxygen saturation drops to the 80’s. I’m still on 40 lpm and 60%. I’m trying to gasp for air, but because of the condition of my lungs, can only take small breaths without coughing more. I feel as though I’m about to die, my heart is racing, oxygen still low, and I’m sweating profusely. Im in respiratory distress! I pressed my call light trying to get the attention of anyone who can help. My nurse was in another room tending to another sick patient. Fortunately he sees me and comes to my room. I am now on 40 lpm and 100% oxygen, next step is the ventilator. I’m terrified. My breathing slows as my oxygen saturation slowly returns to the 90’s. I’m weaned back down to 60%. The same thing happens again in the night, and again I thought I was about to leave this world. Again I’m on 100%, this time for several hours. I’m slowly weaned again to 60%.

March 15, 2020-My morning arterial blood gas (which hurts like a ?) is normal. I get weaned to 50%.

March 16, 2020-My oxygen saturation is 97%, I’m weaned further to 30 lpm and 40%.

March 17, 2020-I’ve been in ICU 4 days, forced to use a bedpan because my oxygen saturation drops if I turn or even move too much. I am unable to clean myself; I’m feeling completely helpless and so embarrassed, but my nurses were great and very understanding. I now truly understand my patients’ feelings from all these years of nursing. I’m weaned to 25 lpm and 30%. I’m going to the medical floor.

March 18, 2020-I’m weaned to 28%. I can achieve 1500 on my incentive spirometer finally. I’m hopeful to be weaned to a regular nasal cannula. The provider comes in. I’ve been waiting for my swab results. I tested positive for COVID19...6.5 days of waiting for the outside lab to process the lab. I’m relieved because I finally have a diagnosis, a reason I’ve been so sick. I’m weaned to 4 lpm on a regular nasal cannula, 4 hours later I’m weaned to 2 lpm. 4 hours later I’m weaned to room air. My oxygen saturation stats 93% and above all night.

March 19, 2020-As I write this, I’m waiting to attempt a 6 minute walk test to see if my oxygen stays up, so I can go home. I’ve had no visitors this entire time due to my isolation precautions.

Guys, this is why social isolation is a thing. As a 31 y.o., I wasn’t supposed to get sick. I wasn’t supposed to be admitted to the hospital or the ICU for that matter. We’ve already had several deaths from COVID19 in this area. I thank God I wasn’t one of them! However, many won’t be as fortunate as I have been. Many will die, especially those with any lung or heart problems. So please, I beg you to #stayhome.

My question would be does this person smoke or vape because word is it affects those the worse.

No. Doesn't smoke or vape. In great health until now. He is a male nurse. Apparently he got in front of the wrong patient at the wrong time, even while taking all the usual precautions.

As a male nurse, I always think it’s funny that people always specify when they have a male nurse, even in casual conversation. I have never had anyone tell me they had a female nurse, but almost always am I told about the male nurse that people have.

The profession was essentially formalizing the natural arrangement of women "nursing" their sick relatives. It was pioneered and codified by a woman (Florence Nightingale) as a profession for women. It's somewhat the female equivalent of soldiering. You always hear people say female soldier the same as male nurse.

Female cop, female firefighter, etc.

(03-20-2020 12:51 PM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  Lack of oxygen makes his case a little different than the "flu", UofM.. again, mine was a combination of Pneumonia and the flu.. and I was on the 5L oxygen at the hospital to start... (they tell me to keep the tank nearby at 2L just in case).

It doesnt, because a small percentage of people who get the flu will get pneumonia and will need to be hospitalized.

In January 2019, Explore Helth did a piece on why people die from the flu, and used an example of a 32 year old male with no underlying health issues who died after getting the flu. It happens even with the flu And it is RARE with the flu, and appears to be just as RARE as with Coronovirus

In 5 years, we will still have people dying of coronovirus, and noone will give it a second thought, just like the flu, which has killed a lot of people this year.

The cases of COVID-19 with confirmed cases and deaths are in the range of 19-64 age range.
I posted that a Youth Soccer coach who also played for a Liga club died from this virus at the age of 21. He was really healthy for his age. They did an examination on his body after death, they found he was at the beginning stages of Leukemia. It was not at the stage for his immune system to be weak for the virus to kill him. There seems to be something else instead like a continued exposure to people who are carrying the virus. Remember all the NBA players that tested positive? They were in China last year. It is just winter time when the virus kicked in. We had a much warmer winter this year, but here in Arkansas, we went down below 32 degrees last month, and now, the cases are spiking. But, it does not explain how the southern hemisphere are reporting cases and deaths as well when they are warmer.

(03-20-2020 12:27 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(03-20-2020 12:23 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  The issue I have with it, true or not, is that one or two anecdotal cases such as this are being irresponsibly projected as the norm of "this is what will happen to everyone" and that is simply not factual truth, based on data and cases we already have that shows what allegedly happened to this person is very outside the norm for this coronabug. I too feel there is some underlying susceptibility that might not be being shared in this specific case, or perhaps this is just one person who this is the wrong bug for and the combination for him happened to be grave where for most it is clearly anything but.

I didn't say it was the norm. I just know this is an actual guy, and I have no reason to think he is B.S.ing, and I figured some people here would appreciate hearing the story.

I shared it precisely b/c it is outside the norm, and I know the guy actually exists. It's not one of those typical passed down Facebook things that is BS. If it was, I would not have posted it.

Lesson learned is, nobody should think they are bullet proof, and lots of younger folks think they are right now, such as the spring breakers in Florida. Just thought it would be interesting to see the other side of the coin.

I appreciate that, AAA. I did not say you specifically were, but it has been very clear for a while now that many in the media and with underlying agendas to hurt the country and its workers who were doing so well, use these types of things to falsely give an impression that is simply not true.

It does seem weird that he was supposed to be so sick and has so much exact data the way it was posted, but perhaps he was backfilling when he got better, and had the time. Who knows. We have no proof this actually happened in this way, and no data showing if it did that this is in any way a typical or near-typical experience, that is clearly what the data we do have does show. Not invincible, but also not needing to overreact as many are and as many with agendas, especially in the media are stoking to the harm of poor and working citizens. I'm sorry if that actually happened to him, but it is clearly outside the norm and not anything most should worry or panic about needlessly.

No one is bullet proof when it comes to anything, people die from regular flu and things much milder, sometimes without clear exact explanation of why. That is part of life, unfortunately.

(03-20-2020 12:16 PM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote:  

(03-20-2020 10:37 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(03-20-2020 10:11 AM)TripleA Wrote:  

(03-20-2020 09:56 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(03-20-2020 12:48 AM)shere khan Wrote:  https://fox6now.com/2020/03/18/alabama-f...diagnosis/

Know someone that talked to this kid last night. Said it was like the worst flu ever but nothing like what Triple A described.

FWIW

I think all the fake stories are just taking the place of killer clowns and the plethora of sex traffickers in white vans that were hiding on every corner to steal women and children no more than 2 months ago. Now everyone knows someone with this Kung Flu and they are all warning us we are all going to die. This schit is honestly worse than doxxing and trolling. Not saying the particular story on the is necessarily fake, but it seems like I'm running across 10 similar posts on FB everytime I log in. It has simply replaced the white vans.

This one is real. My wife knows him.

Maybe, but I don't know you and I am still skeptical. A lot of people's wive's and sisters had white vans at bus stops trying to steal their kids and had ether rags on their car door handles when they came out of Whole Foods as well.

I'm a little skeptical of the story also. Can't help it. As I have mentioned, I worked in Psych units in hospitals and nursing homes after graduating college and find it hard to believe 1. a patient in the ICU will have a cell phone and 2. would have the frame of mind to use that cell phone for a week while fighting for his life to write a diary about his status with dates prior to admittance and during on a facebook site. Sorry. Just doesn't pass the smell test to me.

Not everyone in an icu is on a vent. He might be on bipap or just nasal cannula. It’s totally plausible.

(03-20-2020 10:15 AM)memtigbb Wrote:  

(03-19-2020 08:22 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(03-19-2020 08:19 PM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote:  

(03-19-2020 07:56 PM)TripleA Wrote:  This is from a good friend of my wife's friend. I am withholding the name and location, but I guarantee you this is a real person and a true story. Everything from this point on is the story in his own words.

*****

COVID19 is not like the flu...at all... How do I know? Because I’ve lived through it to tell the tale!

Memoirs of a 31 y.o. male with no underlying health conditions.

March 3, 2020-Bronchitis like illness started, dry cough, no fever

March 5, 2020-Low grade fever starts, still thinking bronchitis

March 6, 2020-Fever climbs from 99.8 to 102.6 in one hour, thought it was flu and was now outside the Tamiflu window, stayed home for symptom management.

March 9, 2020-Fever of >102 continues, this isn’t flu, go to urgent care, diagnosed with pneumonia, started on Levaquin.

March 11, 2020-3 doses of Levaquin in, no improvement in symptoms, go to ER. Admitted, swabbed for COVID19, IV antibiotics got pneumonia on chest CT.

March 12, 2020-Get to a room and placed on supplemental oxygen via nasal cannula, 1 liter per minute (lpm). I’m only able to achieve 500 on my incentive spirometer, for perspective-my healthy lungs could hit 4000.

March 13, 2020-O2 saturation begins to decline, oxygen increased to 2 lpm, then 3 lpm, then 5 lpm. Oxygen saturation 88% on 5 lpm. The decision is made to use high flow (vapotherm) and move to ICU. Placed on 40 lpm and 60% oxygen. I’m terrified at this point because vapotherm is all that is standing between me and the ventilator. This is the moment I would have died at home had I not come to the hospital when I did. I would have respiratory arrested in my bed.

March 14, 2020-I have a bad coughing spell, my oxygen saturation drops to the 80’s. I’m still on 40 lpm and 60%. I’m trying to gasp for air, but because of the condition of my lungs, can only take small breaths without coughing more. I feel as though I’m about to die, my heart is racing, oxygen still low, and I’m sweating profusely. Im in respiratory distress! I pressed my call light trying to get the attention of anyone who can help. My nurse was in another room tending to another sick patient. Fortunately he sees me and comes to my room. I am now on 40 lpm and 100% oxygen, next step is the ventilator. I’m terrified. My breathing slows as my oxygen saturation slowly returns to the 90’s. I’m weaned back down to 60%. The same thing happens again in the night, and again I thought I was about to leave this world. Again I’m on 100%, this time for several hours. I’m slowly weaned again to 60%.

March 15, 2020-My morning arterial blood gas (which hurts like a ?) is normal. I get weaned to 50%.

March 16, 2020-My oxygen saturation is 97%, I’m weaned further to 30 lpm and 40%.

March 17, 2020-I’ve been in ICU 4 days, forced to use a bedpan because my oxygen saturation drops if I turn or even move too much. I am unable to clean myself; I’m feeling completely helpless and so embarrassed, but my nurses were great and very understanding. I now truly understand my patients’ feelings from all these years of nursing. I’m weaned to 25 lpm and 30%. I’m going to the medical floor.

March 18, 2020-I’m weaned to 28%. I can achieve 1500 on my incentive spirometer finally. I’m hopeful to be weaned to a regular nasal cannula. The provider comes in. I’ve been waiting for my swab results. I tested positive for COVID19...6.5 days of waiting for the outside lab to process the lab. I’m relieved because I finally have a diagnosis, a reason I’ve been so sick. I’m weaned to 4 lpm on a regular nasal cannula, 4 hours later I’m weaned to 2 lpm. 4 hours later I’m weaned to room air. My oxygen saturation stats 93% and above all night.

March 19, 2020-As I write this, I’m waiting to attempt a 6 minute walk test to see if my oxygen stays up, so I can go home. I’ve had no visitors this entire time due to my isolation precautions.

Guys, this is why social isolation is a thing. As a 31 y.o., I wasn’t supposed to get sick. I wasn’t supposed to be admitted to the hospital or the ICU for that matter. We’ve already had several deaths from COVID19 in this area. I thank God I wasn’t one of them! However, many won’t be as fortunate as I have been. Many will die, especially those with any lung or heart problems. So please, I beg you to #stayhome.

My question would be does this person smoke or vape because word is it affects those the worse.

No. Doesn't smoke or vape. In great health until now. He is a male nurse. Apparently he got in front of the wrong patient at the wrong time, even while taking all the usual precautions.

Anytime a doctor asks me if I smoke tobacco weed or vape, my answer is always no.

That’s dumb. Why would you lie?

(03-22-2020 07:16 AM)dfarr Wrote:  

(03-20-2020 10:15 AM)memtigbb Wrote:  

(03-19-2020 08:22 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(03-19-2020 08:19 PM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote:  

(03-19-2020 07:56 PM)TripleA Wrote:  This is from a good friend of my wife's friend. I am withholding the name and location, but I guarantee you this is a real person and a true story. Everything from this point on is the story in his own words.

*****

COVID19 is not like the flu...at all... How do I know? Because I’ve lived through it to tell the tale!

Memoirs of a 31 y.o. male with no underlying health conditions.

March 3, 2020-Bronchitis like illness started, dry cough, no fever

March 5, 2020-Low grade fever starts, still thinking bronchitis

March 6, 2020-Fever climbs from 99.8 to 102.6 in one hour, thought it was flu and was now outside the Tamiflu window, stayed home for symptom management.

March 9, 2020-Fever of >102 continues, this isn’t flu, go to urgent care, diagnosed with pneumonia, started on Levaquin.

March 11, 2020-3 doses of Levaquin in, no improvement in symptoms, go to ER. Admitted, swabbed for COVID19, IV antibiotics got pneumonia on chest CT.

March 12, 2020-Get to a room and placed on supplemental oxygen via nasal cannula, 1 liter per minute (lpm). I’m only able to achieve 500 on my incentive spirometer, for perspective-my healthy lungs could hit 4000.

March 13, 2020-O2 saturation begins to decline, oxygen increased to 2 lpm, then 3 lpm, then 5 lpm. Oxygen saturation 88% on 5 lpm. The decision is made to use high flow (vapotherm) and move to ICU. Placed on 40 lpm and 60% oxygen. I’m terrified at this point because vapotherm is all that is standing between me and the ventilator. This is the moment I would have died at home had I not come to the hospital when I did. I would have respiratory arrested in my bed.

March 14, 2020-I have a bad coughing spell, my oxygen saturation drops to the 80’s. I’m still on 40 lpm and 60%. I’m trying to gasp for air, but because of the condition of my lungs, can only take small breaths without coughing more. I feel as though I’m about to die, my heart is racing, oxygen still low, and I’m sweating profusely. Im in respiratory distress! I pressed my call light trying to get the attention of anyone who can help. My nurse was in another room tending to another sick patient. Fortunately he sees me and comes to my room. I am now on 40 lpm and 100% oxygen, next step is the ventilator. I’m terrified. My breathing slows as my oxygen saturation slowly returns to the 90’s. I’m weaned back down to 60%. The same thing happens again in the night, and again I thought I was about to leave this world. Again I’m on 100%, this time for several hours. I’m slowly weaned again to 60%.

March 15, 2020-My morning arterial blood gas (which hurts like a ?) is normal. I get weaned to 50%.

March 16, 2020-My oxygen saturation is 97%, I’m weaned further to 30 lpm and 40%.

March 17, 2020-I’ve been in ICU 4 days, forced to use a bedpan because my oxygen saturation drops if I turn or even move too much. I am unable to clean myself; I’m feeling completely helpless and so embarrassed, but my nurses were great and very understanding. I now truly understand my patients’ feelings from all these years of nursing. I’m weaned to 25 lpm and 30%. I’m going to the medical floor.

March 18, 2020-I’m weaned to 28%. I can achieve 1500 on my incentive spirometer finally. I’m hopeful to be weaned to a regular nasal cannula. The provider comes in. I’ve been waiting for my swab results. I tested positive for COVID19...6.5 days of waiting for the outside lab to process the lab. I’m relieved because I finally have a diagnosis, a reason I’ve been so sick. I’m weaned to 4 lpm on a regular nasal cannula, 4 hours later I’m weaned to 2 lpm. 4 hours later I’m weaned to room air. My oxygen saturation stats 93% and above all night.

March 19, 2020-As I write this, I’m waiting to attempt a 6 minute walk test to see if my oxygen stays up, so I can go home. I’ve had no visitors this entire time due to my isolation precautions.

Guys, this is why social isolation is a thing. As a 31 y.o., I wasn’t supposed to get sick. I wasn’t supposed to be admitted to the hospital or the ICU for that matter. We’ve already had several deaths from COVID19 in this area. I thank God I wasn’t one of them! However, many won’t be as fortunate as I have been. Many will die, especially those with any lung or heart problems. So please, I beg you to #stayhome.

My question would be does this person smoke or vape because word is it affects those the worse.

No. Doesn't smoke or vape. In great health until now. He is a male nurse. Apparently he got in front of the wrong patient at the wrong time, even while taking all the usual precautions.

Anytime a doctor asks me if I smoke tobacco weed or vape, my answer is always no.

That’s dumb. Why would you lie?

I used to lie as well (I don't smoke anymore). With the constant narrative that smokes cost the health system and should pay more combined with Obamacare taking a step toward socialized medicine, do you really wonder why someone wouldn't want it on their medical records that they are a smoker?

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