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I wanted to talk to the people of #nolockdown about what it's like to watch someone slowly suffocate while drowning in their own thickened mucus. A very real possibility for anyone who is, or knows someone recovering from Covid-19. /1
Let's say you catch Covid, but don't die. The damage has your lungs working at a lesser capacity. The damaged airways in your lungs are getting smaller, phlegm is now much harder to produce. You've got to go back in the hospital for a tune-up. This is your new norm. /2
Maybe you recovered just fine(ish), but your adolescent child is struggling - they caught Covid-19 too. Eventually they make it home from the hospital, but they suffer the effects previously mentioned. You can't go to work at the same time anymore. /3
Now you have to spend 30 minutes in the morning loosening the phlegm in your child's chest by cupping your hand, or using a tool to tap on their back and chest, because this is the only way your child can be comfortable at home, and not in a hospital. /4
Don't forget the same routine again at bedtime. You don't want your gasping for air in their sleep. If the world goes back to a comfortable norm, neither of you can be as active as you were. /5
Hopefully your child wasn't a sports all-star. Hopefully you don't smoke in the home. Things for you guys are never going back to normal. Colds and flus are surely sending you to the doctor at the very least, and the morgue at the very worst. /6
Hopefully you don't have to watch your child struggle to breath, gasping for air, or worse... hopefully you don't have to bury them.
This is the reality of a family with a child who had cystic fibroris. /7
This is the reality of a family with a child who had cystic fibroris. /7
Of parents who had to watch their child die slowly, spend countless nights in the hospital, sleeping in the car because the kind of place that deals with this treatment isn't close to home. Our family's suffering wasn't preventable. /8
Not catching Covid-19, and passing it on to your loved ones is. Before you step outside and break the social etiquette of isolation, ask yourself if you're willing to put yourself and others at risk, and if this suffering is worth your need to socialize, or need for a haircut. /9
This isn't just a message for the protestors, this is a message for anyone who wants to test mother nature and put the rest of us at risk. /10
