My father is home from the hospital, by the grace of God, after being admitted for ARDS from COVID.
He was never put on a ventilator, by God’s grace. They still put him on Olumiant, which wasn’t great, but he’s home. He needed oxygen support; they didn’t send him home with any. His sats are still not normal, but they aren’t in the 80s anymore. Also gave him dexamethasone while he was there.
While he was in there they also gave him zinc, melatonin, vitamin c, vitamin d—the works.
He is still in terrible shape. He still has trouble eating and drinking. He has terrible nausea. We have to help him shower, and go to the bathroom.
They gave him methylprednisolone and famotidine to take at home. They didn’t give him an inhaler despite giving him one in the hospital.
So, to everyone on here spouting memes about the survival rate of COVID like those of us who are suffering serious consequences from getting the damn China virus are morons, I ask you to reconsider.
Yes, I know masks do nothing. But they put my father basically on the Zelenko protocol, and I finally convinced him to take ivermectin twice before he got admitted, and he still got screwed over. We tried to contact AFLDS and FLCCC for treatment; neither provider nor pharmacy got back to us before he was bad.
Masks may not work, and the vaccines may be problematic, but I’m currently hoping my dad doesn’t have lasting consequences of this damn thing. So please, consider showing some respect for those of us terrified our loved ones will not be okay for a long time after being COVID positive.
Maybe omicron will finally end this since it’s milder. I hope to God it does.
Any flu or cold have a certain segment of the population that will be much more vulnerable to it than the norm, most of these are people with underlying conditions or a reduced immune system due to age.
Some will(irrespective of age) have the unique factors needed to make that particular strain of the flu/cold virus the 'perfect fit' that they can't defend themselves against even though they have always fit the norm for all other viruses and will continue to fight of any future viruses with the same ease.
It is shitty but for all the people in the past that this has happened to it has just been the flu and this reality, the whole covid blast in awareness/media etc makes it worthy of note because of this and not because it's anything outside of what has always happened with every previous flu without it being anything other than the unfortunate reality for a very small percentage of the population.
The whole covid thing makes it worse and harder to deal with even though the reality is that there is no real difference beyond the exposure it has received.
Hopefully everything continues to improve and he will make a full recovery, check with a doctor first but Quercetin was recommended as an alternative for those that couldn't get Ivermectin or Cloroquinine so it definitively does something beneficial(post from a vaxxed a few weeks ago mentioned that he had no vaccine side-effects before he ran out of Quercetin) and Creatine may also be worth considering...
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/quercetin
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/what-is-creatine
Creatine also seems to have some very beneficial effect in preserving/protecting cognitive functions in people above a certain age(noticed a increase in 'confused/not following' in my mother, got her to take creatine and that basically went away(within a couple of weeks) and returned her to her normal sharp as a whip self...)
We’ve got him on Quercetin with Bromelain already (Quercetin isn’t very bioavailable on its own, just FYI, I never see that mentioned here.)
In terms of creatine, I have that coming in the mail.
The reason that helps with COVID is that the virus drains your mitochondria something fierce throughout its progression. Mitochondria need creatine to work, so any of those supplements will help people recovering from COVID and/or experiencing brain fog from age.