Been in Hospital with Covid the last 2 weeks
I started off with exposure and the first 10 days, or so at home with horrific fever and everything else imaginable. Long story short I found myself in Baylor hospital with shortness of breath.
Since, then, I have recovered quite a bit with the help of the experimental remdesovir and also with the help of dexamethasone therapy. It really looks like I am going to pull though and get to come home. Disoriented, but a survivor.
I will just reiterate for everyone this evening that the virus is no joke and there are real consequences coming if Trump has it.
I am also extremely worried about Biden. given the proximities involved.
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Glad you are getting better - sending you extra hugs!
I’m so sorry. 
. Wishing you all the best, and a full recovery.
I feel like everyone will need years worth of hugs by the time we all get through this.
Happy to hear you are on the mend. Keep up th4nfight. We need you in the resistance.
When you’re up to it, we would all benefit from knowing your Covid story. I join you in your concern about VP Biden given the huffing and puffing the MF did during the debate.
We have a long way to go with this.
I'm glad to hear you are likely heading home soon.
I've lost medical colleagues and my ER nurse sister has been ill since May 4 with chronic intractable migraines and newly developed hypertension. I'm grateful she didn't develop COVID-19 pneumonia, but these less common cardiovascular and neurologic signs pretty much have left the cardiologists and neurologists unsure what to say about them--especially if MRIs are ok. Most likely a continuing effect of the virus on the vascular epithelium and the body's immune response going a bit haywire, but we just don't know. Routine therapies don't necessarily work as they would in other situations.
She so badly wants to get better and return to work, but...
Like me, she is horrified by those who do not take this sufficiently serious--and that includes some HCW colleagues that have become lax as well. It truly does matter that our (current) leaders discount/downplay it.
All the best to you on your recovery!
Please keep us updated.
Welcome back and so glad that you're recovering. Please take good care of yourself and let us know how you are...
care and are recovering. Best wishes for a full return to good health very soon.
Thank goodness you're pulling through and may go home soon. I know you'll keep us up on how you are.
Great big virtual hugs from up north here in Colorado. 
I had it back in March. Thankfully, I didn't get the real severe version that you had. I was pretty sick, but I didn't need the hospital.
Even with what I had, it took a very long time to get my energy back. Months. So don't be surprised when you don't feel like yourself for a long time to come.
And I found that sleeping in a recliner was much better than laying flat in a bed. I learned that one by trial and error. It really helped to keep the cough under control.
Wishing you much luck in your recovery!
Am so so sorry ...
..maybe opt for virtual format--or just cancel all together; who the hell cares what pendejo in WH says, does!
When I read your post, it reminded me to be cognizant of possible exposure and how unsafe it really is out there---with no easing in sight.
Borh my sons are in medical field and work in hospital setting; both can't stress enough how really bad it's out there-- warn me not to go out unless its really necessary. I worry for them too.
Glad your'e feeling better. Paz.
but am glad you are doing better.
but its good to hear that you are in recovery.
As much as you'd like to return home, don't rush it. You're in the exact correct spot to keep an eye on this devastating virus, and none of us want you to relapse, especially you, I imagine. 
We'll be thinking of you, and we'll take care of Trump and the rest of those fascists. You take it easy and get well. 
and that you'll have an uneventful recovery. You'll be very weak at first, of course, but just being home will be good medicine.
I've read that the Samson Pavilion at the Cleveland Clinics where the debate took place is a new building with good ventilation engineering, to the point that last spring it was pressed into service as a Covid hospital with only modest changes to its HVAC systems, mostly piping in oxygen, etc.
It sounds like it was a horrible experience. I am so glad to hear that you have pulled through and are on the mend. Please take care of yourself!
This thing is NOTHING to play with. You literally have no idea how YOUR body might react to exposure, let alone any variations of impact dependent on how much of a viral load you have.
It's a cruel virus. May you recover quickly and completely. 
Kudos for beating back this beast. Hang in there, we’re thinking about you!
Please take care and don't push yourself. Let your body heal.
When I couldn't avoid them, I was polite to family & acquaintances who still support the Con and the awful Republican Party. But Covid was the last straw. My politeness now will be that I won't openly flip them off when I see them. Fuck 'em, everyone.
Positive thoughts & healing vibes to you and your family.
...and soon some peacefulness as the stress we've been living with begins to lift.
Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
Best wishes for a complete and speedy recovery. 
