I was in the ICU for 10 days with Delta 4 weeks ago. Pulmonary embolism, pneumonia, and lactic acidosis. I’m also pregnant. When they admitted me they said I’d do a 5-day round of remdesivir (almost went on ventilator but I was able to avoid it), and I immediately said ‘but doesn’t that cause organ failure?’ The doctor looked at me confused and said, ‘absolutely not.’ And I said well please monitor my organ function daily and he said yes we do that automatically. I had blood drawn every morning around 4-6am if I was awake. Made a complete recovery faster than the doctors said. My lungs were 90% clots and my blood oxygen was fluctuating between 22-40% when I was admitted. Me and Baby were lucky! As of this week I’m off the home oxygen.
My husband did the talking when we first arrived but it was weird… COVID is sneaky. I wasn’t even sure if I should go the ER earlier that night but I regressed really quickly. And yes when the hematologist looked at my CT scan of my lungs he just quietly said, “Wow”. Scary moment.
What happened to standards of care? She's supposed to get remdesivir and a ventilator!
I was in the ICU for 10 days with Delta 4 weeks ago. Pulmonary embolism, pneumonia, and lactic acidosis. I’m also pregnant. When they admitted me they said I’d do a 5-day round of remdesivir (almost went on ventilator but I was able to avoid it), and I immediately said ‘but doesn’t that cause organ failure?’ The doctor looked at me confused and said, ‘absolutely not.’ And I said well please monitor my organ function daily and he said yes we do that automatically. I had blood drawn every morning around 4-6am if I was awake. Made a complete recovery faster than the doctors said. My lungs were 90% clots and my blood oxygen was fluctuating between 22-40% when I was admitted. Me and Baby were lucky! As of this week I’m off the home oxygen.
That sounds...miraculous. 90% clots and 22-30% POX while pregnant. How were you even able to communicate coherently?
My husband did the talking when we first arrived but it was weird… COVID is sneaky. I wasn’t even sure if I should go the ER earlier that night but I regressed really quickly. And yes when the hematologist looked at my CT scan of my lungs he just quietly said, “Wow”. Scary moment.