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.
Thanks for the update. I’m glad to hear all the information that you provided. One last thing that I heard about a while ago, was a nebulizer treatment with peroxide - but I think that’s done at a hospital or a doctors office. I’m not 100% sure. Keep me posted I hope all is well. Just so you know my mom is 81 now, she has no damage to her lungs, and she’s going to the gym twice a week now. Once you get through all this together, you won’t have to worry about it again. That’s the upside. My mom has confidence, and just that is worth all the freedom in the world. To not have to worry in the back of your mind that you might get it, that you might die, and that that would’ve could’ve should’ve well I’ll be out of the way. Keep praying to the Lord he will heal.
Ps I think the reason they don’t want the at home oxygen, it’s because people sometimes become reliant upon it. And that’s not a good thing. Once I had my mom up walking around every time she went to the restroom, I would have her check her oxygen levels with the oximeter. When the numbers were stabilizing, we would drop her oxygen down .5 each day. She was at 3.0 for about a week on the oxygen machine. That was my main concern actually, not getting her off that oxygen. But we taper off .5 each day until she was breathing fine on her own. Even our doctor says she’s surprised how well things went, and how healthy my mom is now. She’s been to a pulmonologist, it has no damage to her lungs at all. We will pray the same for you guys!