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.
Jesus. I love this community and was sharing everything from my discharge papers. But wtf?? I’m dumbfounded by these responses. The doctors didn’t believe the numbers either because I was conscious and they just kept saying me and the baby were so lucky.
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.
Glad your doing well and also I don’t believe a word you said Ariel.
By the time I was halfway through Ariel's post, I'm like, nope, never happened. But also happy she's doing well.
Jesus. I love this community and was sharing everything from my discharge papers. But wtf?? I’m dumbfounded by these responses. The doctors didn’t believe the numbers either because I was conscious and they just kept saying me and the baby were so lucky.