A Harsh Lesson Learned

aspen874

Well-Known Member
I just got out of the hospital after being there for 6 days, I almost didn't make it. At one point I had 106.6 temperature. I still have to have in home nursing care for another week or so. It could have been avoided had I gone to the Doctor or ER when it all first started, but I didn't. As we get older little things can get deadly in a heartbeat as in my case. As with many of us, we are the bread winner, if we are sick we tell ourselves to buck up and power through it, we have a job to do.

The next time you don't feel well go to urgent care or somewhere, you are no good to your family if you are dead!
 

41bigdawg

Let the Big Dawg eat !
Sorry to hear Aspen, rest well and get better soon! Thanks for the great advice :)

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SKOGDOG

One of the old ones.
Steven—Sorry to hear....you are correct about early treatment. Some of these bacteria and viruses can really gallop away with you. Lost a mother-in-law needlessly to a pneumonia some years back. Tragic. Glad you are gonna be back in the game, hopefully soon.
 

RCAdd1ct

JAFO
Glad you are better. I ran into some like this a while ago. Into quack shack. Meds leave. Week later still sick. They wanted to send me by ambulance to hospital. I said nah. I walked in we can walk out.mind you I had over 103 fever for the week.

I get to the ER. They do chest X-rays. Nothing evident. Ask me if I want to have more tests or discharge. Uhhh more tests as I have been sick longer than I ever have.

cat scan. Severe double pneumonia. X-ray did not show it as there was no contrast.

moved me to quarantine room. Nobody tells me anything internally I am freaking. So what kinda shit do I have that I need to be quarantined?

100% oxygen for 7 days. Day two they almost kill me going to get X-rays. I couldn’t breath hard enough to exhale through the mask. So they send me to icu. Wanted to ventilate me but I was stubborn and said no.

I made it through it. Lots of tech info for work got erased in my brain due to lack of oxygen. I don’t think peeople revert realized at work what all I had to relearn.

oh well enough rambling.

take care of yourself.
 

liferider

Looking forward to retirement
A driller friend of mine in Wisconsin got sick with Covid, I told his wife to monitor their Blood / oxygen hourly and their temp. She has it too. Yesterday they called for an ambulance and hauled Bob to the hospital his B/O dropped to 89. By the time the hospital staff got him into the ER and started working on him it had dropped to 84. He texted me last night that it’s in his lungs just like mine. He said 1st thing they did after drawing 10 viles of blood was put a 14 gauge port in his right arm and by 10:00pm last night he had his 2nd dose of Dexamethazone pushed through his port along with 4 other meds. I had a long talk with him Wednesday on how important the Blood oxygen meter is. He had his neighbor go get one for him. His wife called me late last night and said that little finger box probably saved his life. With Covid everyone should have 1 and a back up in their house, 2 thermometers, a large bottle of Ibuprofen, and call your Dr and have them give you a prescription for Dexamethazone and put it in your medicine cabinet. The last thing you want to do once you have Covid is go to the pharmacy and gather all this up. Also before you get sick and a good thing to take is 2000mg vitamin C and 2000 icu of D.
 
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liferider

Looking forward to retirement
I just got out of the hospital after being there for 6 days, I almost didn't make it. At one point I had 106.6 temperature. I still have to have in home nursing care for another week or so. It could have been avoided had I gone to the Doctor or ER when it all first started, but I didn't. As we get older little things can get deadly in a heartbeat as in my case. As with many of us, we are the bread winner, if we are sick we tell ourselves to buck up and power through it, we have a job to do.

The next time you don't feel well go to urgent care or somewhere, you are no good to your family if you are dead!
How is your energy, fatigue is an absolute bitch with this once you get over the virus. Don’t push it or you will be right back in the hospital. I’m now 17 days post hospital. So much damage to my lungs. This is my Blood Oxygen this morning. It will take 3-4 months to regain the damaged lungs. I’m back on 1/2 days at work this week.D97B3C86-8194-4A26-A085-365655554981.jpeg
 

aspen874

Well-Known Member
How is your energy, fatigue is an absolute bitch with this once you get over the virus. Don’t push it or you will be right back in the hospital. I’m now 17 days post hospital. So much damage to my lungs. This is my Blood Oxygen this morning. It will take 3-4 months to regain the damaged lungs. I’m back on 1/2 days at work this week.View attachment 78863
I have very little energy, just walking up the stairs takes effort. I don't see me going back to work anytime soon. I am happy to see you are recovering.
 

chubs

Guru
Just curious, how many of you have been to big gatherings, sports / political / motorcycle \ or other stuff? I have a couple friends that have come down with the “virus “ so I’m trying to watch what I do and where I go. Hopefully you folks all recover quickly and get back to your normal life!! Stay safe everyone!!
 

liferider

Looking forward to retirement
Aspen, did they give you one of these. You will truly learn to hate it, but for the next 2 weeks it is your best friend. Used one when I had 1/2 my lung removed, and now recovering from Covid. Seriously, use it every hour your awake hit it 4-5 times. On your 2nd week every other hr,4-6 times and on your second week start walking WITH your Blood Oxygen meter. If it drops below 90 while your walking, don’t panic. Just stop and admire a tree or a young lady near by. The #’s will go back up.BF7A2BE6-CBA4-46B3-B546-C68598C8089B.png
 

aspen874

Well-Known Member
Aspen, did they give you one of these. You will truly learn to hate it, but for the next 2 weeks it is your best friend. Used one when I had 1/2 my lung removed, and now recovering from Covid. Seriously, use it every hour your awake hit it 4-5 times. On your 2nd week every other hr,4-6 times and on your second week start walking WITH your Blood Oxygen meter. If it drops below 90 while your walking, don’t panic. Just stop and admire a tree or a young lady near by. Th e #’s will go back up.View attachment 78870
No they did not, I am on IVs 3 times a day. My oxygen levels are good, I'm on the IVs for a infection in my spine.
 

SB03chopper

Well-Known Member
Guys that is not sounding like fun at all, but glad you are both on the way to recovery. Everyone try to stay healthy as possible, and stay on the look out for signs.
 

Mickmorris

Well Known Member
Supporting Member
I just got out of the hospital after being there for 6 days, I almost didn't make it. At one point I had 106.6 temperature. I still have to have in home nursing care for another week or so. It could have been avoided had I gone to the Doctor or ER when it all first started, but I didn't. As we get older little things can get deadly in a heartbeat as in my case. As with many of us, we are the bread winner, if we are sick we tell ourselves to buck up and power through it, we have a job to do.

The next time you don't feel well go to urgent care or somewhere, you are no good to your family if you are dead!
Glad you’re ok Brother! Take care out there in Aspen!
 

Ray

Well-Known Member
Glad you all are doing better. We have not eat out, go inside eat out since all this started. and I think just the getting older is a red flag in all this covid virus. Something was said you can't take care of your family if your are dead, well we watched this take a new twist a few years ago. My brother in law , a big healthy, little over weight guy, over a few months started dropping weight like crazy, and I jumped him about it, and told him you look sick and need to get checked out,,,, do it or I will tell your sister, my wife, and she will rag the hell out of you, :). We all know around here! :) So he did after a little conversation with the boss of my paycheck, :). He was told he had cancer and they treated him for the "Wrong Type" of cancer for over a year and half. With no help coming from his wife for cooking something healthy for him to eat, she went to Mc Donald's for almost all his meals. She drove him crazy nagging him constantly about anything she could whine about, and he was "Sick"! I told my wife , his sister that all that bitchhhh is doing is trying to kill him for the insurance policy. {$500,000} I told her as well! Her excuse was the stove don't work. I replaced everything in their kitchen, with a top of the line stove , dishwasher, etc. to take away that excuse. She used the stove to heat up frozen junk food, the first time she used it she made a hell of mess in it, and a week later it was still there. He ended up in the hospital several times, over a period of time, until they realized they were treating him for the wrong cancer. He can barely walk by then, and not far. His lovely wife tried to stop me from going to see him at the hospital everyday, and tried to get my wife thrown out of his room, which both failed miserably. She was fully aware of how we both felt her treating him like trash. I saw her ragging him to the point he was crying like a baby, could barely stand up to take a step or two. She gave me the opportunity to explain to her exactly what I was feeling at the moment, she shut up the mouth almost instantly! no one knows how she raqged him after they got home, he could not do anything for himself, much less get that B, OFF HIM. A few weeks he lost his fight with cancer, she she cashed out. Found out she is selling the house and moving away back closer to her mama. She is a fact that there are mean, selfish people in this world, and I assure you she knows where I stand on it.
From what I hear the covid 19 is terrible as some of you can witness too personally. I would not wish it on even that crazy woman, but from what I saw on how cancer treated my brother in law and some of my friends over time, I would not wish it either on anyone. I am a firm believer in what goes around, comes around, so let's try to treat all our fellow man and woman the best we can, just start there.

Sorry another rabbling by, :)
Ray
 

jsousa515

Member
God bless it sucks getting old I am a chronic pain sufferer and have been for around 12 years now take care bro you will have better days ahead God Bless


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