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I haven't talked about this here before, but two weeks ago my grandparents flew back home from Florida. When they got to our home country they isolated at home for two weeks as is the current law there. After a few days, they both started showing symptoms of covid.
I haven't talked about this here before, but two weeks ago my grandparents flew back home from Florida. When they got to our home country they isolated at home for two weeks as is the current law there. After a few days, they both started showing symptoms of covid.
My grandparents have been married for more than 65 years. They're very in love, and barely ever spend even a night apart from each other. My grandma is 82 and has some health issues and my 88 year old grandfather had been her caretaker for as long as I can remember.
She was immediately taken in an ambulance and hospitalised, leaving my granddad alone in their apartment, waiting for his test results, unable to leave the house or have any visitors. The doctors wanted him to go to hospital eventually too, but he stubbornly refused.
For the first few days my grandmother was in hospital she wasn't in intensive care. She was able to talk on the phone a little, and she was gradually getting better. Two days ago the doctors thought she was through the worst of it and would be fine.
Given all her underlying conditions, heart, lung, diabetes, we thought this was a miracle. She would just have to stay in hospital for a few months.
Yesterday she was diagnosed as having developed pneumonia and was put into intensive care.
The doctors aren't optimistic now.
Yesterday she was diagnosed as having developed pneumonia and was put into intensive care.
The doctors aren't optimistic now.
We've all seen the stories of people dying alone from covid, nobody allowed near them, nobody allowed to visit. It hurts to think of your loved one like that. Not to mention my granddad all alone at home.
So my granddad, stubborn man that he is, finally agreed to go to hospital.
So my granddad, stubborn man that he is, finally agreed to go to hospital.
He's now staying in the intensive care unit with my grandma, and I just heard he has developed pneumonia too. But they get to be together, and that makes me feel a little better.
I still have hope my grandmother could pull through, but we just don't know right now.
I still have hope my grandmother could pull through, but we just don't know right now.
I don't know why I wrote this thread except it feels better to talk about it.
Take care of each other and stay home so we can defeat this thing.
Take care of each other and stay home so we can defeat this thing.
