from a friend:
COVID update on my parents: This has been a rough week. We are all hanging in there, but it’s not been easy.
My mom received convalescent plasma when she was at Shady Grove last week. She felt a lot better after that and was transferred to a COVID rehab facility in the old Washington Adventist Hospital building, which had been shut down because the hospital moved to a better, new facility and was subsequently recommissioned for COVID patients. However, at Washington Adventist, things backtracked for her. Her cough and pneumonia got much worse, and her oxygen levels dropped into the 80s, so yesterday she was transferred to Adventist HealthCare White Oak so she could receive acute care. She is currently stable, but still very sick. She is on level 16 oxygen, which is a very high amount, but she is not intubated, and she is alert and able to talk and eat. She cannot walk right now because she is too weak. She received Remdesivir tonight, and we are hoping that helps her with her breathing so she can start a smoother recovery.
My dad received LY-CoV555 (basically the Eli Lilly Regeneron biologic) via outpatient IV infusion on Monday. He was running a low fever yesterday, and his cough was worse, but today his cough seems a lot better, and he is fever free, albeit with very little sense of taste. He is currently at home and doing relatively well, apart from the extreme stress of my mom’s condition.
We have been in touch with my mom and my dad by phone, text, and FaceTime and have been tracking their situations as best we can.
We appreciate everyone who has been checking in on our situation. It’s incredibly frustrating that COVID has plagued two of the most careful people out there. We hope everyone stays safe over the holidays.
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From my daughter:
Last night a college friend's father was removed from the ventilator that was keeping him alive because he was not responding to treatment. His mother, her grandmother, died of the virus earlier in the week.
Yesterday, a local friend's mom who is a nurse got her first dose of the vaccine. Today three college friends who work in health care will be vaccinated
She refused to go to Thanksgiving with her family because she has a baby and thought they were not taking the virus seriously enough. And now she is home safe and they are dying
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From August:
Just posted on a professional page: "I have a COVID positive person in my household; he tested positive 8/14 and is now out of isolation and still in quarantine. His fatigue level is lessening but still there; he has had what is considered a fairly mild case, but it's been devastating on so many levels. I have had to sit with uncertainty as no one knows what this virus might do next. I have friends who are much younger than we who are struggling months after the first positive test. And there are NO consistent guidelines. My brother is a COVID contact tracer and he has no consistent guidelines. This is what happens when scientific and medical issues become political. I tell you this as a small and personal outlook on NOTHING being for sure these days. This is reflected in my clients as well as myself." I then went on to talk about how my dreams as of late have been about being overwhelmed with different things along with suggestions of what we, as therapists, can do with our sense of being overwhelmed.
same covid positive person December 20 after "recovering" from COVID:
xxxx's having a surge of covid symptoms and is incredibly frustrated. Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers.
Washington Post December 22, 2020:
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