For Mother's Day, I went and helped my mom with yard work. While I was working, my mom's neighbor came home. We said hello and wished each other a happy Mom's Day. Then I asked her how things were going at the hospital, was she still working as many hours? (I was wondering if the hospital had laid off people as so many hospitals in California have been doing...) Well, the conversation did not get to that because she said she had just gotten back to work after being out since March due to catching Covid-19.
I asked what her symptoms were? She said, "Don't listen to anything you hear on the news. I never had a fever or a cough."
She said it started with a headache. She said, "I had a sinus infection, they gave me Augmentin and that helped, but I felt short of breath and not my usual energetic self." At that point she said she did stop going to work and isolated. (She is a whirlwind... accomplishes so much; volunteers to help neighbors move and shampoo carpets, is on community boards for the hospital, cooks for neighbors in addition to working full time at the hospital emergency room 10 to 12 hour days.) For her not to have energy is just wrong.
She said she went back to the doctor concerned that she felt she was not getting enough oxygen. The doctor listened to her lungs and said they were clear. She said I am 67 years old and working front line in the emergency room, we have not even had the N95 masks, and the mask I have, I have to wear the same one all day, I think you should at least do an X-ray of my lungs. She was right, it came back that her lower lobes of her lungs showed pneumonia. He put her on a z-pack, and off she went. But a few days later she was not really feeling better and she lost her sense of smell and taste. She went back and asked to be tested for Covid. They did the test and indeed she tested positive.
She never needed to be admitted to the hospital. She said she was just weak and never felt like she got enough oxygen to have energy. She just stayed in bed, isolated, and got over it. She never got a cough, or a fever.
Her son lives with her. He is in his late 20's and has gone back to college... so like all of our universities, his classes were switched to remote learning on the internet. He was always at home, he never got it. The son's girlfriend is always over there, and she never got it. She was tested she was negative, her son has not been tested but it is now well past the time they would catch it.
I don't want to get it because you are out for so long... but it seems to come in many different degrees of seriousness. I wonder if, as predicted, it is becoming less deadly?
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