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I have not been posting for awhile.

My dearest wife passed away last September after her arduous battle with cancer. A month later, I was hospitalized for Covid Pneumonia. The emotional, mental, and physical stress took its toll on my body. I got exposed to Covid through community exposure. Covid hit me real hard being very vulnerable.

A trip to the ER being unable to breath rushed me to a Covid-19 hospital ICU. They hooked me up on an Intubated Ventilator for a few days to save my life. I lost twenty some pounds in one week. I could not sleep. The positive pressure blower was very noisy. They did not give me food or drinks during that time. I was on ivy fluids and a cocktail of medications including Remdesivir, and was constantly awaken around the clock for blood samples or injections, etc...

After learning how to swallow, I was moved out of the ICU. I cried when I saw that a big chunk of my muscles were gone. I had to relearn everything from learning how to eat to learning how to walk. I am a"long hauler" needing oxygen because my lungs cannot pump out enough oxygen to the rest of my body.

It will be March of next year that I will find out if I can return to work and/or if I will need oxygen for a long time.

My kids and I finally had time to lay a wreath on my wife's grave last Sunday. We haven't had time to grieve. My kids were worried sick that they were losing both parents. I was determined with lots of prayers.

My message to you all is be careful. Take this pandemic seriously. Wear a mask, keep your duration of contact down to a minimum, and make your public presence small.

It is a miracle that I am alive.
 
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hungan1 said:
I have not been posting for awhile.

My dearest wife passed away last September after her arduous battle with cancer. A month later, I was hospitalized for Covid Pneumonia. The emotional, mental, and physical stress took its toll on my body. I got exposed to Covid through community exposure. Covid hit me real hard being very vulnerable.

A trip to the ER being unable to breath rushed me to a Covid-19 hospital ICU. They hooked up on an Intubated Ventilator for a few days to save my life. I lost twenty some pounds in one week. I could not sleep. The positive pressure blower was very noisy. They did not give me food or drinks during that time. I was on ivy fluids and a cocktail of medications including Remdesivir, and was constantly awaken around the clock for blood samples or injections, etc...

After learning how to swallow, I was moved out of the ICU. I cried when I saw that a big chunk of my muscles were gone. I had to relearn everything from learning how to eat to learning how to walk. I am a"long hauler" needing oxygen because my lungs cannot pump out enough oxygen to the rest of my body.

It will be March of next year that I will find out if I can return to work and/or if I will need oxygen for a long time.

My kids and are finally had time to lay a wreath on my wife's grave last Sunday. We haven't had time to grieve. My kids were worried sick that they were losing both parents. I was determined with lots of prayers.

My message to you all is be careful. Take this pandemic seriously. Wear a mask, keep your duration of contact down to a minimum, and make your public presence small.

It is a miracle that I am alive.
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God Bless you Hungan and welcome back! May your and your family's recovery be as complete and easy as possible.

Thank you for sharing your experience and wise words!
 


Oof, very sorry to hear this. You and your family have had to deal a lot in the last few months. I pray you find time to grieve, time to heal physically, mentally and emotionally.

Life is way too short. I hope you get back to 100% and find opportunities to smile and laugh again.

Godspeed hungan 1!!
 



hungan1 said:
I have not been posting for awhile.

My dearest wife passed away last September after her arduous battle with cancer. A month later, I was hospitalized for Covid Pneumonia. The emotional, mental, and physical stress took its toll on my body. I got exposed to Covid through community exposure. Covid hit me real hard being very vulnerable.

A trip to the ER being unable to breath rushed me to a Covid-19 hospital ICU. They hooked up on an Intubated Ventilator for a few days to save my life. I lost twenty some pounds in one week. I could not sleep. The positive pressure blower was very noisy. They did not give me food or drinks during that time. I was on ivy fluids and a cocktail of medications including Remdesivir, and was constantly awaken around the clock for blood samples or injections, etc...

After learning how to swallow, I was moved out of the ICU. I cried when I saw that a big chunk of my muscles were gone. I had to relearn everything from learning how to eat to learning how to walk. I am a"long hauler" needing oxygen because my lungs cannot pump out enough oxygen to the rest of my body.

It will be March of next year that I will find out if I can return to work and/or if I will need oxygen for a long time.

My kids and are finally had time to lay a wreath on my wife's grave last Sunday. We haven't had time to grieve. My kids were worried sick that they were losing both parents. I was determined with lots of prayers.

My message to you all is be careful. Take this pandemic seriously. Wear a mask, keep your duration of contact down to a minimum, and make your public presence small.

It is a miracle that I am alive.
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GodBless you and your family. StayStrong.
 

In the midst of your tremendous loss and acute physical and emotional suffering, you apparently thought of others, and opened up here, to share all of this with people you don't even know, in hopes that we would be safe. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.

I hope your words resonate with all those who read them.

I hope you and your family can heal, and recover. I am so sorry for you loss.
 


hungan1 said:
I have not been posting for awhile.

My dearest wife passed away last September after her arduous battle with cancer. A month later, I was hospitalized for Covid Pneumonia. The emotional, mental, and physical stress took its toll on my body. I got exposed to Covid through community exposure. Covid hit me real hard being very vulnerable.

A trip to the ER being unable to breath rushed me to a Covid-19 hospital ICU. They hooked up on an Intubated Ventilator for a few days to save my life. I lost twenty some pounds in one week. I could not sleep. The positive pressure blower was very noisy. They did not give me food or drinks during that time. I was on ivy fluids and a cocktail of medications including Remdesivir, and was constantly awaken around the clock for blood samples or injections, etc...

After learning how to swallow, I was moved out of the ICU. I cried when I saw that a big chunk of my muscles were gone. I had to relearn everything from learning how to eat to learning how to walk. I am a"long hauler" needing oxygen because my lungs cannot pump out enough oxygen to the rest of my body.

It will be March of next year that I will find out if I can return to work and/or if I will need oxygen for a long time.

My kids and are finally had time to lay a wreath on my wife's grave last Sunday. We haven't had time to grieve. My kids were worried sick that they were losing both parents. I was determined with lots of prayers.

My message to you all is be careful. Take this pandemic seriously. Wear a mask, keep your duration of contact down to a minimum, and make your public presence small.

It is a miracle that I am alive.
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Wow. Glad you are on the upswing!!!
 



So sorry for your loss. Hope that you recover completely from your ordeal and you and your family will be in my thoughts. Thank you for thinking beyond your situation. It very well might save others from a similar ordeal.
 


nitramnaed said:
Wow! What a story. Hopefully people will take your advise and be careful. I certainly have. To your recovery and your family, "Gopher Country" is with you.
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He didn't share the whole story with you. He went through an absolutely horrible experience. I'm happy for this guy able to come out of it somewhat. Like he said, he is alive, but the recovery period is also very tough.

Welcome back Hungan1! I'll be watching for your posts as you "slowly" and I mean "slowly" recover from this ordeal.
 

Sending healing thoughts to you and your family. You have been through a physical and emotional ordeal . I hope you continue to make slow and steady progress.
 




Best wishes hungan. While not wanting to hijack your thread I can somewhat confirm what you say. I am an otherwise healthy 55 year old. I contracted Covid a few weeks ago and while I did not have breathing issues, I had a 104° fever for nearly a week. On day 7 I was considering going to the ER when the fever finally broke. After two weeks of being extremely tired and I am now more or less back to normal.

I know some people only have minor symptoms but some of us definitely get our butts kicked by this damn thing.

Be well.
 


Good to hear you're alive man.

Amazing how it hits folks differently.

Fit dude in my neighborhood got hit hard. Thought it was over, relapsed and spent another week in bed.

My 90y year old friend... nothing.

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@hungan1, What a tough row to hoe. I can only pray for you and your family. I hope peace comes to you soon. God bless you through this trial.
 

That's a terrible string of events. I hope you have a lot of good close family to get you through this series of terrible things. God Bless You and your family! Keep your chin up, hungan!
 

A_Slab_of_Bacon said:
Good to hear you're alive man.

Amazing how it hits folks differently.

Fit dude in my neighborhood got hit hard. Thought it was over, relapsed and spent another week in bed.

My 90y year old friend... nothing.
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It really is incredible how it has hit so many people so differently. There either has to be myriad different strains running around or the system of testing is completely off the rails.

I'm certainly not in the "young" crowd, and when I had it I had 24-36 hours of just being really weak from head to toe, temp never got above 100.5, never had any loss of smell or any other flu-like symptoms, had to watch football in the recliner for the day or two that I was feeling weak; took the mandated week off from work and accomplished a shitload of things, including a really heavy workout load in the gym; decided that was long enough to run it out of my system for the purposes of testing, got my negative test a week after the positive test and headed back to work.

I suspect it may be a long time before we really know as much about this as we would like.
 


Plausible Deniability said:
It really is incredible how it has hit so many people so differently. There either has to be myriad different strains running around or the system of testing is completely off the rails.

I'm certainly not in the "young" crowd, and when I had it I had 24-36 hours of just being really weak from head to toe, temp never got above 100.5, never had any loss of smell or any other flu-like symptoms, had to watch football in the recliner for the day or two that I was feeling weak; took the mandated week off from work and accomplished a shitload of things, including a really heavy workout load in the gym; decided that was long enough to run it out of my system for the purposes of testing, got my negative test a week after the positive test and headed back to work.

I suspect it may be a long time before we really know as much about this as we would like.
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Not a lot of different strains ,peoples immune systems react to it differently, in some cases it triggers the immune system to overreact damaging the body. There is a lot we don't know about the virus, why it affects people differently, is one of the big unknowns.
 

Welcome back Hungan! Best wishes for a full recovery.
 

Plausible Deniability said:
It really is incredible how it has hit so many people so differently. There either has to be myriad different strains running around or the system of testing is completely off the rails.

I'm certainly not in the "young" crowd, and when I had it I had 24-36 hours of just being really weak from head to toe, temp never got above 100.5, never had any loss of smell or any other flu-like symptoms, had to watch football in the recliner for the day or two that I was feeling weak; took the mandated week off from work and accomplished a shitload of things, including a really heavy workout load in the gym; decided that was long enough to run it out of my system for the purposes of testing, got my negative test a week after the positive test and headed back to work.

I suspect it may be a long time before we really know as much about this as we would like.
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We will have some good science on it in...3 to 5 years I expect.
 
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Sorry our prayers weren't enough for your wife Hungan. Life is filled with challenges and you and your family have faced plenty. Keep the faith, God is strong and so are you.
 

Thank you all!

We are all in God's Grace. We are a lot closer to God than we realize, especially in difficult times.

Getting 2-1/2 to 5 hours of sleep being the primary care provider for my wife and working a full time job made me very immune compromised. The stress of losing her and all the funeral planning was very difficult.

When she was dying I did not sleep. I promised her she was not going to die alone. I held her hand and caressed and comforted her until the very end.

What is sad is I saw a 12-13 year old boy in the Covid ICU as I was being transported. Covid does not discriminate.

They had me restrained. A lined was attached to my artery through a vessel. If I moved I could sever the line and die instantly. My daughter confirmed that they induced coma twice. At least partially. Now, I know why. I could've gone bonkers. I was hallucinating. I was glad I gave my daughter power of attorney. I won't say what my hallucination was. I could have lost my life's savings. I was on my back in bed at all times for twenty two days until I was sent to rehab.
 
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#2Gopher said:
He didn't share the whole story with you. He went through an absolutely horrible experience. I'm happy for this guy able to come out of it somewhat. Like he said, he is alive, but the recovery period is also very tough.

Welcome back Hungan1! I'll be watching for your posts as you "slowly" and I mean "slowly" recover from this ordeal.
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Okay. I don’t quite get your point. Are you insinuating I’m somehow mocking him? As that couldn’t be further from the truth.
 

Hope you will get better soon! It's stories like yours that will hopefully get others to pay attention and take this seriously. The less of us that get it until the vaccine and stuff arrive, the less people that will have to possibly go through all the suffering and pain you went through.
 


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