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Why you don't want to get Covid. Thread.
Husband now has my cold. I was under the weather. He can't breathe, racked by the most devastating cough that rends my heart. Last 2 times he's had a cold he's ended up with pneumonia.
12 years ago, he picked up a bad cold in Japan. 1/
Husband now has my cold. I was under the weather. He can't breathe, racked by the most devastating cough that rends my heart. Last 2 times he's had a cold he's ended up with pneumonia.
12 years ago, he picked up a bad cold in Japan. 1/
He came back with a high fever and an overwhelming hacking cough. He also, bizarrely, lost his sense of smell for 6 months.
Sound familiar? Looking back on it he had all the symptoms of a coronavirus similar to Covid (though obviously not Covid 19). 2/
Sound familiar? Looking back on it he had all the symptoms of a coronavirus similar to Covid (though obviously not Covid 19). 2/
He had the cough for a month, and his lungs never recovered. Having been healthy before, he has had chronic asthma ever since. His lungs are susceptible to every URTI going; we have to try very hard not to give him our colds. Worse though: 3/
9 years ago I had to take an emergency flight from Malaysia back to London because Paul, having had a week of horrendous muscle pain, and finding he could no longer pick up our 18-month-old son, had been rushed into hospital, where he stayed for a week. 4/
My husband's immune system had turned on him and was attacking his muscles. He nearly died. If he hadn't been in sole charge of our toddler, he might have left it until it was too late.
It was diagnosed as postviral. 5/
It was diagnosed as postviral. 5/
Did I mention he can't breathe? There has been a growth in his nose since about that time, and it's slowly but surely been stopping him breathing through his nose properly.
It turns out there is a large mass growing in his sinuses -- the consultant thinks NOT malignant... 6/
It turns out there is a large mass growing in his sinuses -- the consultant thinks NOT malignant... 6/
because it's been there for such a long time, growing slowly. But it has to come out, which will mean very difficult surgery through his soft palate.
And every time he gets a cold, we are scared that he will get pneumonia again. 7/
And every time he gets a cold, we are scared that he will get pneumonia again. 7/
There is nothing we can do for him, no comfort for him as he struggles to catch a breath through the coughing.
The worst part about it all is knowing that this is probably how he is going to die, struggling for breath. 8/
The worst part about it all is knowing that this is probably how he is going to die, struggling for breath. 8/
So don't be blasé about Covid 19. Don't have Covid parties. Wear your mask for others as well as yourself. Keep your distance.
Even if you don't die on a ventilator, your quality of life could be ruined by what we thought at the time was just a bad cold. 9/END
Even if you don't die on a ventilator, your quality of life could be ruined by what we thought at the time was just a bad cold. 9/END
