Long Covid-19 Made It Through! A Bed In Roswell 2020-10-18
By Karen Strickholm
Fall 2020 through 2021 – Long Covid, coupled with more severe endocrine/TBI symptoms, grinds on – An addled brain, micro-seizures, double vision, loss of bowel control, severe headache, multiple re-hospitalizations (bouncing from rehab to hospital to rehab, etc.) for cellulitis, pneumonia, UTIs and extreme sinus infections. Massive IV administration of triple antibiotics, steroids, plasma, iron, fluids, via PICC line from arm to heart to deliver. Completely bed-bound, unable to stand. Plus, trapped in Texas <ugh> since NM governor had closed borders due to pandemic.
Late 2021 – Moved via ambulance to a bed that finally opens in Roswell, NM, as pandemic ebbs. Start physical therapy, regain ability to sit upright, stand, pivot, and take a few steps. However, severe infections continue, each bout triggering heart into Afib and requiring several weeks’ stay in hospital acute care units. Kidneys crash. More massive drugs infused.
In The Ambulance
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Long Covid-19 Made It Through! A Bed In Roswell
Previously:
Covid-19 El Paso Quarantine Death On The Ward – 2020-08-25