CORONA "I thought I was past this, I thought it was on the mend."

jazzy

Advocate Discernment
ive been interested in survivors stories. as times passes studying the results of this bio weapon they are finding out more and more, over 50%, still have health problems from the permanent damage the virus did to their bodies. its not the 'death count' that we should focus on, its the permanent damage this bio weapon does. as ive been warned by medical professionals YOU DONT WANT TO GET THIS THING. Good masks work.
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A New Jersey woman who recently marked her 100th day battling COVID-19 detailed her experience on the "Fox News Rundown" podcast Tuesday, and emphasized the importance of face masks as cases continue to surge in various states across the country.

Ann Wallace, an associate professor of English at New Jersey City University, said she started experiencing chest pains this past March but attributed it to "anxiety" due to the newly imposed state lockdowns and subsequent chaos over the virus at the time, she explained.

Because of her multiple sclerosis diagnosis, Wallace, 50, managed to secure a test for her and her daughter in late-March, after she showed flu-like symptoms, posing a risk to her immuno-compromised mother.

"It is such a roller coaster," Wallace said of her experience since testing positive for the virus.

"I have never had a cough. I've never had a fever. That has been consistent from day one. But, I've had shortness of breath. I've had low oxygen levels. I've had migraines and insomnia and tingling in my extremities," she explained.


Wallace said the severity of her symptoms have varied by the day.

"Some days, I'm on my oxygen concentrator like I was this morning before I got this call with you because my oxygen was low," she told podcast host Dave Anthony, "so I turned to my oxygen on and I got myself stabilized and now I'm OK. And then, tomorrow, I might not need it at all. Last week, I was in the E.R. for the fifth time."

Wallace said the unpredictable nature of the virus was "a constant terror, because I never know when I might need to go to the E.R."

She added, "I thought I was past this, I thought it was on the mend."

Because of her extensive experience with the virus, Wallace said she found it "incredibly upsetting" and "a sign of disrespect" that some members of the public were not adhering to safety protocols, and choosing to forego their masks.

"I don't think it's tyranny. It's safety, and I think people need to respect their own health and respect the health of those around them."

Wallace went on to say that "just because you don't think you've been infected, doesn't mean you haven't been. Anyone can be infected," she asserted.

"Wear the mask, keep each other safe. We can do it collectively if everybody participates."

 

DragonBurrow

Contributing Member
I can say for my people we are “cured” but we still really feel it. 3 months post Covid and we are still trying to rebuild cardio strength. Some days I think I will never be able to do the things I used to. Basic things like getting groceries and putting them away is an all day project with lots of breaks, for even the smallest shopping days.
 

blackjeep

The end times are here.
Hopefully, the take away from stories like this would be motivation for people to take action to prevent getting the China Virus in the first place. In ways much better than a mask...

Fluids, rest, nutrition and supplements would be a good idea.
Drinking enough water, instead of sugary drinks, and reducing alcohol consumption.
Getting enough sleep. Rearrange one's schedule to allow for adequate sleep.
Eat nutritious food. Not fast food. Not junk food.
Supplements like quercetin, zinc, vitamins A, B, C, D, etc. are fundamental to prevent getting the China Virus in the first place.
BTW, I watched a video that recommended 10,000 units of vitamin D per day. It's not easily absorbed by some people (like 50+ year olds) and it takes weeks to raise vitamin D levels in the body, even when taking larger doses.

What was it my momma used to say? Oh yeah, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure".
 

Terrwyn

Veteran Member
She talks about being in the ER for the 5th time. Not to be unsympathetic but this is why I dont go for my leg. The only way you can get a bed is to be admitted through the ER which could mean a wait of 12 to 14 hrs. Why are they letting COVID patients in the ER? The hospitals need to figure out something better than that. I am going to check on home administered IV antibiotics but I can see why regular patients are saying no way and dying at home of whatever.
 

mzkitty

I give up.
As far as I know, my son and I have not had it. But we haven't been tested either, and back maybe in December or so, we had some kind of crud. Not quite the flu, it seemed. It went away after I went to the CVS clinic and got antibiotics.

I'm here to tell you right now, every single time we go out we take a shower, wash our hair, and change our clothes, as Meemur directed months ago. So far so good. Now we have to wear masks to shop or anything. I hate them. But don't have a choice.

Nobody has been in our house. We've even put off having the usual apartment repairs made that come up (you know, dripping faucet, little things) because we don't want the maintenance people in here. It can wait.
 

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
She talks about being in the ER for the 5th time. Not to be unsympathetic but this is why I dont go for my leg. The only way you can get a bed is to be admitted through the ER which could mean a wait of 12 to 14 hrs. Why are they letting COVID patients in the ER? The hospitals need to figure out something better than that. I am going to check on home administered IV antibiotics but I can see why regular patients are saying no way and dying at home of whatever.

Your doctor can order a bed for you that does not require going through the ER.
 

SouthernBreeze

Has No Life - Lives on TB
The many times I have been admitted to our local hospital, the doctor admitted me, before I got there. I still had to go through the ER to wait to be carried up to my room. It didn't matter if it was an emergency, or if I was being admitted for surgery. This is at a Trauma Level II hospital, too.
 

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
The many times I have been admitted to our local hospital, the doctor admitted me, before I got there. I still had to go through the ER to wait to be carried up to my room. It didn't matter if it was an emergency, or if I was being admitted for surgery. This is at a Trauma Level II hospital, too.

Our hospital has an entirely separate area for that sort of thing and while that area is off of the ER you actually don't sit in the ER.
 

SouthernBreeze

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Our hospital has an entirely separate area for that sort of thing and while that area is off of the ER you actually don't sit in the ER.

Ours is similar. When you walk into the admittance area, look to the right of the huge room, and that's the waiting area of the ER. Nothing but distance keeps everyone apart. People are always walking back and forth, though. There is a common room for refreshments.
 

nomifyle

TB Fanatic
Fortunately, I've never had to go to the hospital except when I had my cateract surgery and that was not an actual admittance, just day surgery. In seven years of going to the VA I've been to urgent care less than I can count on one hand. My issues were contact dermatitis (which only a steriod shot will cure) and bronchitis once. When I went for bronchitis I'd been sick for about 3 weeks and didn't have the right meds to control my hacking gagging throwing up a lung cough. The prescribed a couple of things that I keep on hand to use as a preventative.

If I ever got really sick I might not know how to handle it, since I've never been really really sick.

God is good, all the time.

Judy
 

kyrsyan

Has No Life - Lives on TB
If what I had was COVID, my doc thinks so even though the test came back negative. My test was done in the first wave with the tests that had wrong results. I am walking every day to build back up cardio. It is a bloody fight to get moving some days. I still have edema throughout my body. My feet are shades of red all day, although no tingling or loss of feeling. By the time I go to bed at night they are swollen all around. If I stop taking an adrenal supplement I completely lose all energy. So yeah, it's not a quick road back by any means. And if you don't fight for it, you may not get it back. I've been doing daily 2 mile walks for over a month. Normally, by now, I'd be doing them in 35 minutes or less. I'm lucky if I get done within 50 minutes. Today was actually my fastest time yet at 41 minutes.
 

Terriannie

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Evidently, this thing varies from patient to patient and condition to condition.

My 97 yr. old MIL who contracted COVID in April on top of a UTI and low sodium is doing just fine other than being depressed from being confined to her nursing home room because of the mandates.

Her treatment was Hydodroxachloraquine/Zincpack which was given despite the naysayer's claims it didn't work. (I wish I knew the name of the Dr. who agreed with us to put her on it, so I can thank him.)

Not only did she beat the very real prediction of the death rate among the elderly but I wonder if Hydrox. has anything to do with her 100% recovery aftereffects as well? (That part maybe a little bit of a stretch but who knows? The medical community doesn't know or agree with ANYTHING at this rate!!!)

I'll keep you in my prayers that you get stronger.
 

jazzy

Advocate Discernment
If what I had was COVID, my doc thinks so even though the test came back negative. My test was done in the first wave with the tests that had wrong results. I am walking every day to build back up cardio. It is a bloody fight to get moving some days. I still have edema throughout my body. My feet are shades of red all day, although no tingling or loss of feeling. By the time I go to bed at night they are swollen all around. If I stop taking an adrenal supplement I completely lose all energy. So yeah, it's not a quick road back by any means. And if you don't fight for it, you may not get it back. I've been doing daily 2 mile walks for over a month. Normally, by now, I'd be doing them in 35 minutes or less. I'm lucky if I get done within 50 minutes. Today was actually my fastest time yet at 41 minutes.

im so sorry for your struggle, sending you a germ free hug also and some prayers. keep on keeping on.
 

mzkitty

I give up.
I'm not seeing in the article. Did you read it elsewhere.

It's in the article above:

Because of her multiple sclerosis diagnosis, Wallace, 50, managed to secure a test for her and her daughter in late-March, after she showed flu-like symptoms, posing a risk to her immuno-compromised mother.
 

Nich1

Veteran Member
Caution should be taken when dosing for Vitamin D. This vitamin is fat soluble so it stores in the body. When there is too much, it can cause liver problems. Certainly Vitamin D is a necessity but if it's possible, have your Vit D blood levels checked when you have a wellness visit with your doctor. I don't know if there is a way to get it checked elsewhere. This, at least, is what my doc told me...caution is the key.
 

Terrwyn

Veteran Member
The many times I have been admitted to our local hospital, the doctor admitted me, before I got there. I still had to go through the ER to wait to be carried up to my room. It didn't matter if it was an emergency, or if I was being admitted for surgery. This is at a Trauma Level II hospital, too.
I just dont understand it. If we arnt a dire emergency why cant we just check in when a room Is available? The only thing they did in the ER was unwrap my leg and do a blood test and put in the port for the IV. I wasnt sick and the hours of waiting was for a bed. When I actually got a room I had it all to myself for 3 days. They never did fill it. Why with so many in the ER waiting. Sheer ineptitude I guess.
 

TKO

Veteran Member
Caution should be taken when dosing for Vitamin D. This vitamin is fat soluble so it stores in the body. When there is too much, it can cause liver problems. Certainly Vitamin D is a necessity but if it's possible, have your Vit D blood levels checked when you have a wellness visit with your doctor. I don't know if there is a way to get it checked elsewhere. This, at least, is what my doc told me...caution is the key.
ALSO, if you take D3 you should also be taking K2. They work together.
 

City Marm

Contributing Member
Today I saw a YouTube video that a friend told me about. Please look before it’s gone!! The site is Bill Still shows and Interview w a Dr. Richard Bartlett from Texas. The word Silver Bullet is in the title. Bottom Line! Much success in the ER using a Respiratory Anti-
Inflammatory drug used in a Nebulizer for 5 minutes called: PULMICORT, Flexhale. It is also under a generic name. Dr. Bartlett said
There’s not much money in it so you don’t hear about it being used except in Asian countries like Taiwan and Singapore where it is densely populated but NOT many deaths at all. Taiwan had like 7 deaths.
On a personal note my toddler granddaughter had symptoms of COVID but
Was undiagnosed and after her 3rd time to the Dr. they gave her a steroid and she was cured.
This Dr above said this medicine is used a lot for preschoolers w asthma. Just putting it out there and I hope it helps someone.
 

naegling62

Veteran Member
People don't realize how fast you can become vitamin D deficient. My skin doctor long ago had me to start wearing a hat when outside and I developed a deficiency within a few years.
 
The COVID 19 Silver Bullet - Dr. Richard Bartlett - Still Report 3126

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYRO6NldUP4


Runtime: 21:50

According to Dr. Bartlett, Japan, Taiwan and Singapore all have very low death rates, using a COVID-19 treatment similar to his recommended treatment.

Dr. Bartlett's Treatment Protocol

1) Inhaled steroid - Budesonide, sold under the brand name Pulmicort

2) Antibiotic - Clarithromycin, sold under the brand name Biaxin

3) Zinc

Good interview - Dr. Bartlett explains his experiences in treating COVID-19, the safety of the drugs that he is recommending, and how this recommended treatment protocol works.

------------------------------------------------

View the entire "American Can We Talk" interview with Dr. Richard Bartlett

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDSDdwN2Xcg


Runtime: 31:11


intothegoodnight
 

SouthernBreeze

Has No Life - Lives on TB
I just dont understand it. If we arnt a dire emergency why cant we just check in when a room Is available? The only thing they did in the ER was unwrap my leg and do a blood test and put in the port for the IV. I wasnt sick and the hours of waiting was for a bed. When I actually got a room I had it all to myself for 3 days. They never did fill it. Why with so many in the ER waiting. Sheer ineptitude I guess.

Sometimes when I've arrived at the hospital, I already have a room waiting for me, and I don't have to wait in the ER. I just have to fill out all the paper work, then I'm taken straight up. Other times, it was a few hours before a room was ready for me.

Since C-19, from my understanding, the hospital has very strict rules in place now. They may have a separate waiting area for the time being which would seem very reasonable, because of all the other rules in play there.
 

Melodi

Disaster Cat
Evidently, this thing varies from patient to patient and condition to condition.

My 97 yr. old MIL who contracted COVID in April on top of a UTI and low sodium is doing just fine other than being depressed from being confined to her nursing home room because of the mandates.

Her treatment was Hydodroxachloraquine/Zincpack which was given despite the naysayer's claims it didn't work. (I wish I knew the name of the Dr. who agreed with us to put her on it, so I can thank him.)

Not only did she beat the very real prediction of the death rate among the elderly but I wonder if Hydrox. has anything to do with her 100% recovery aftereffects as well? (That part maybe a little bit of a stretch but who knows? The medical community doesn't know or agree with ANYTHING at this rate!!!)

I'll keep you in my prayers that you get stronger.
I have started to notice what may be a "trend" and I want Nightwolf to look at it when he can; I even saw it mentioned on a news broadcast once.

That "trend" seems to be reports of a lot of the "oldest old" as in "the oldest person in XYZ Country, County, City, etc" recovering while people in their 50s to about 80 are in grave danger of not recovering even with hospital care.

If (and I do mean if) this is a real trend and not just feel-good-story reporting than it suggests that there was a disease going around about 80 years ago that provided SOME immunity for SOME people.

There is a similar theory about why so many elderly survived the 1918 flu, some of it was the way the virus attacked young bodies into over-responding but there is also on-going research trying to discover which virus caused a major flu epidemic in the 1880s.

There is a "hunch" among epidemiologists that surviving the 1880's flu pandemic made it more likely for older folks to survive the 1918 version but the jury is still out on that.

It would be very exciting in terms of current research on COVID if there is a high recovery rate among the Oldest Old (Greatest Generation) compared to the kinda-old (Boomers like me and younger Silents).
 

night driver

ESFP adrift in INTJ sea
The reason for holding you in an ED bed waiting for the next available bed is to have you there WHEN IT BECOMES AVAILABLE!!
Because if you aren't there RIGHT THEN then some other doc's patient gets it.

My job was getting beds for people both in the ED and in outlying hospitals where the patient needed the Tertiary Care facilities to get better or to get the patient out of the outlying hospital so they could come on down to the Mother Ship and die on THEIR M&M report.
Patients from outlying hospitals got sent for as transfers when we had a commitment from one floor or another to take the patient and have an attended bed for them.
In a hospital as large as mine, there are ALWAYS empty beds in pods on some floors. Those pods are not MANNED (AKA no nurses, no docs, etc) so ya can't just drop a patient into those empty beds. People die that way.

It's not always obvious if you don't spend a lot of time behind the curtain.
 

night driver

ESFP adrift in INTJ sea
Mel, there was a LOT of thought in the 1918-1922 lit about the 1880 Grippe that hit and it's effects on the folks in 1918 etc.
 

SouthernBreeze

Has No Life - Lives on TB
The reason for holding you in an ED bed waiting for the next available bed is to have you there WHEN IT BECOMES AVAILABLE!!
Because if you aren't there RIGHT THEN then some other doc's patient gets it.

I agree. Our hospital specializes in many different diseases and trauma conditions. There are different wings and floors dedicated to each. There are only so many beds in each of these departments. If there is only one bed/room available in a certain department, and two doctors want to admit two patients, one will have to wait for the next available room. Sometimes, if no rooms are going to be available in a reasonable length of time, you will be put in a different department, until a room specializing in your care becomes available. I've had it done to me on a few occasions.
 

Terriannie

Has No Life - Lives on TB
I have started to notice what may be a "trend" and I want Nightwolf to look at it when he can; I even saw it mentioned on a news broadcast once.

That "trend" seems to be reports of a lot of the "oldest old" as in "the oldest person in XYZ Country, County, City, etc" recovering while people in their 50s to about 80 are in grave danger of not recovering even with hospital care.

If (and I do mean if) this is a real trend and not just feel-good-story reporting than it suggests that there was a disease going around about 80 years ago that provided SOME immunity for SOME people.

There is a similar theory about why so many elderly survived the 1918 flu, some of it was the way the virus attacked young bodies into over-responding but there is also on-going research trying to discover which virus caused a major flu epidemic in the 1880s.

There is a "hunch" among epidemiologists that surviving the 1880's flu pandemic made it more likely for older folks to survive the 1918 version but the jury is still out on that.

It would be very exciting in terms of current research on COVID if there is a high recovery rate among the Oldest Old (Greatest Generation) compared to the kinda-old (Boomers like me and younger Silents).
Born in 1923, Mom missed the 1918 pandemic so she wouldn't be born with any sort of antibodies.

I do wish someone would do a study on her successful treatment and recovery though.

Because of her age and the prognosis of rampant death among the elderly, we went straight to prayer after hearing, "Be prepared. Your mother may not last the night." Later, we heard, "Your mother's oxygen is coming up." Then even later in the discussion with the 1st treating Dr., we heard, "Her heart can withstand Oxychloraquine." A few weeks later, we heard, "Your mother's 2nd test came out Negative."

Thrilled and grateful, we see no problems now, except for lockdown overload at the nursing home. It's such a shame to go through all that only to sit and play Bingo over the PA with only 2 in the room.
 

Terrwyn

Veteran Member
I almost died in the 1957 Asian flu epidemic and never became ill in the next one that came close to getting my DH.
 
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