That is the thing -- mild symptoms is suuuuch a misleasing term -- sure, they were mild, but 20 days later and still tired, still caughing, stressing if that pain I feel is just a muscle tiree from caughing or I'm actually getting lung fibrosis? That never happened before; my wife was alone at home with out 2.5 year old daughter unable to get up from the floor.
My daughter started having a fever 2 days after I returned from hospital, 12 days after I started having symptoms, wave 3 of stress and worry.
I barely slept during this time.
I saw and heard a lot of examples of how quickly things can turn south in the hospital.
How do you dispose of the trash when you're quarantined in a flat?
There's so much more than the symptoms that will screw with you for this disease.
The first time I realised how wiped out I really was, was when I helped an older patient -- his bed was next to a curtainless window and I climbed up to improvise a curtain from a bedsheet -- I was panting for air.
Up to that point it didn't register how tired I was, because I was just not doing anything physical.
I had a double pneumonia when I was 23 or so, that may have set me up for this one, I'll never know. But fortunately I knew to sleep on my belly to ensure my lungs don't drown, even so I had some pretty big dips in O2 saturation levels. After three weeks I was out and about but even the slightest exercise and I would be sweating like a pig and unable to take in enough air. Now it's as good as before, I've been super careful all summer and I hope to sit this one out without a re-infection.
I saw a 48 year old guy unable to put his oxygen nostrils back when his saturation read something like 85.
I think he went ~72% before someone put his nostrils back and the nurse put him back on facemask + an additional O2 tank, besides the regulat O2 coming in the copper pipes.
Pretty impressive how fast this hit. Compared to a 'normal' pneumonia which is comparable to a slow descent this was like falling off a cliff. Fine one moment and unable to do much of anything several hours later. Initial recovery seemed to go very well too but then this very strong fatigue just would not let go. I'm curious how other people have experienced their recovery, what phases they went through and how long each of those took.
> That is the thing -- mild symptoms is suuuuch a misleasing term -- sure, they were mild, but 20 days later and still tired, still caughing, stressing if that pain I feel is just a muscle tiree from caughing or I'm actually getting lung fibrosis?
You can get the exact same thing from the flu. I had a flu a few years ago that kept me coughing for 8 weeks.
You are not alone, I too had some anxiety in beginning of march but over time, as more data and fact come out, now I have almost zero stress and anxiety due to covid. Now my stress and anxiety is largely from the people/government response of the covid.
Source? This is a virus killing a ton of people and leaving many more flat on their backs for weeks... To suggest that it's "highly possible" someone's symptoms are from anxiety is kind of insulting IMO.
That is a lot of people. 200,000 deaths already attributed to COVID-19 in the USA. That's 0.0006 of the entire population dead already. Is it good that it's not that contagious? Yes. Is it killing a lot of people? Also yes.
While this year isn't over yet there has been years in my life time with worse death rates that went by completely unnoticed. Looking back in a couple of years I don't think people are gonna say that a lot of people died this year.
How much is a lot for you? A million? Two? At what level will you admit that you're just plain wrong about all this? Or is it all fine as long as you get through in one piece?
I barely slept during this time.
I saw and heard a lot of examples of how quickly things can turn south in the hospital.
How do you dispose of the trash when you're quarantined in a flat?
There's so much more than the symptoms that will screw with you for this disease.