Getting vaccinated
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2021 11:02 pm
I have been quite vocal with the news of my contracting covid and my ongoing battle.
Let me tell you my friends, and foes, this virus knocked me flat on my ass.
Yet I am lucky, a couple of the patients, the ones I decried had been left to their own devices on the other side of a makeshift tent, and who probably brought about me having the virus, have died. (That situation changed the next day as those residents were sent out to another facility.)
It is no joke, no bit of it.
I was about this sick over 30 years ago when I had double pneumonia. (Right upper lobe, left lower lobe.)
Just as with this virus, there was a moment when I really thought I might die. My husband was so short of breath that we considered taking him to the ER. He has sleep apnea and uses c-pap but could not use it. We both sat here, panting like dogs, me coughing til my ribs hurt, he totally frightened. I sat up all night because if I tried to drift off I would bolt up gasping for air. We would sit up watching mindless TV til we were so exhausted we finally fell asleep. Last night I was finally able to sleep in a reclining position.
I, a person who has worked a job that required breakneck speed just to keep up, toddled into the kitchen and made a small meal for us. My legs were rubbery by the time I finished. I was a bit short of breath, but that end of things was much improved.
We can't get the vaccine for at least 90 days, when we can, we absolutely will, no doubt about it.
I know most of you are smart enough to take a shot at the shot, but to anyone vacillating bear in mind how easily this could have been a tale not told.
Let me tell you my friends, and foes, this virus knocked me flat on my ass.
Yet I am lucky, a couple of the patients, the ones I decried had been left to their own devices on the other side of a makeshift tent, and who probably brought about me having the virus, have died. (That situation changed the next day as those residents were sent out to another facility.)
It is no joke, no bit of it.
I was about this sick over 30 years ago when I had double pneumonia. (Right upper lobe, left lower lobe.)
Just as with this virus, there was a moment when I really thought I might die. My husband was so short of breath that we considered taking him to the ER. He has sleep apnea and uses c-pap but could not use it. We both sat here, panting like dogs, me coughing til my ribs hurt, he totally frightened. I sat up all night because if I tried to drift off I would bolt up gasping for air. We would sit up watching mindless TV til we were so exhausted we finally fell asleep. Last night I was finally able to sleep in a reclining position.
I, a person who has worked a job that required breakneck speed just to keep up, toddled into the kitchen and made a small meal for us. My legs were rubbery by the time I finished. I was a bit short of breath, but that end of things was much improved.
We can't get the vaccine for at least 90 days, when we can, we absolutely will, no doubt about it.
I know most of you are smart enough to take a shot at the shot, but to anyone vacillating bear in mind how easily this could have been a tale not told.