Dad has Covid now, not doing well. Please help me pray for him. Praying is not something I do often or well but my dad is my favorite human being and I need him to be okay. We’re at the hospital now and they have treated us with disgust and hate since we got here but he needs oxygen so I had to tolerate it. Please pray, thank you all. I know this place is a safe place for those of us who are tired of weathering the world.
Update: Still here, he has tested negative!! Still being treated for pneumonia and sepsis which is discouraging but I’m able to be here with him to help him and advocate for him. Thank you all for the continued prayers and kind words!! I’m alone here but your words are helping me through.
Hey raubie, kinda urgent here. can you please inform me on the decadron asap? Today we declined Remdisivir but were told he could have a steroid which I see is decadron in his chart. Please tell me what you know, I haven’t heard of this one but if this is also dangerous, I want to tell them to stop immediately! I didn’t know about this one
This is from an article in Business Insider. Sorry I didn’t get back sooner…lost my husband…
Unlike Remdesivir, there is evidence to support the use of steroids in the treatment of COVID-19. The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) recovery trial showed that steroids do have a beneficial effect. “But again, the timing is critical. The recovery trial clearly showed that if we give steroids too early, before oxygen saturation, it showed a harmful effect. Those who got it early had higher mortality than those who did not,” warned Guleria.According to him, steroids are most effective during the later part of the disease, when there is more inflammation and oxygen saturation is falling. “Steroids are only useful for moderate or severe cases,” he said.