Posted on 03/22/2020 9:22:41 PM PDT by libh8er
Rio Giardinieri, 52, who is vice-president of a company that manufactures cooking equipment at high-end restaurants in LA and around the world, thinks he contracted COVID-19 at a conference in New York. He had a fever for five days, horrendous back pain, headache, cough, and tiredness. He was sleeping about 15 hours a day when he’s used to getting five hours a night.
He says his doctors did not want to see him so he drove to Joe DiMaggio hospital in South Florida, near his home, and nearly passed out waiting to get tested. Doctors diagnosed him with pneumonia and coronavirus. They put him on oxygen in the ICU but he says he was still unable to breathe. After more than a week, he says doctors told him there was really nothing more they could do. Friday evening, he said goodbye to his wife and three children.
“I was at the point where I was barely able to speak and breathing was very challenging. I really thought my end was there. I had been through nine days of solid pain and for me, the end was there. So I made some calls to say in my own way goodbye to my friends and family.” A dear friend immediately sent him a recent article about hydroxychloroquine, an old anti-malaria medicine proven successful to treat COVID-19 patients overseas, and insisted he take the drug.
So, Giardinieri reached out to an infectious disease doctor. “He gave me all the reasons why I would probably not want to try it because there are no trials, there’s no testing, it was not something that was approved. And I said look I don’t know if I’m going to make it until the morning because at that point I really thought I was coming to the end because I couldn’t breathe anymore. He agreed and authorized the use of it and 30 minutes later the nurse gave it to me.
”An hour after an IV with the medicine, he says his heart felt like it was beating out of his chest. “They had to come in and get me calmed down and take care of me. I had another episode about two hours later where I just got to the point where I couldn’t breathe and my heart was pounding again so they gave me some Benadryl through the system and something else. I’m not sure what it was. It allowed me to go to sleep and when I woke up at exactly 4:45 in the morning, I woke up like nothing ever happened.”Miraculously, he’s since had no fever or pain, feels fine and he’s able to breathe again.
Giardinieri says doctors now believe those episodes were not a reaction to the medicine but the virus progressing in his body. “To me, there was no doubt in mind that I wouldn’t make it until morning,” says Giardinieri. “So to me the drug saved my life.”
On FOX 11’s “The Issue Is,” this week, Oncologist Dr. Paul Song says while using hydroxycloroquine to treat COVID-19 is still preliminary, it’s extremely compelling and hopeful with such an infectious virus.“A lot of people are walking around shedding viruses unknowingly and if you can’t eliminate this from the body in such a short period of time, then the potential to infect others is greatly diminished,” says Dr. Song.
“Not to mention the recovery period for patients,” Giardinieri says, for him, it was life-saving.
“I just want everyone to know there’s an option. You don’t have to just sit there and hydrate. There’s a medicine that’s working.”He had three doses of the medicine Saturday. Doctors now have to wait to make sure coronavirus is knocked out of his system so he doesn’t infect anyone else. He’s hoping to go home to his family in about five days.
I cured the virus with booze. Trouble is, took a fair amount. Go to the liquor store now, before it’s too late. Running out of TP is one thing, being sober another...
Dismiss this. It’s just annecdotal.
He’s giving false hope. /s
Wonderful.
That’s supposed to be funny.?
That’s stupid. Wait till you’re sick.
I was sick.
You are actually dumb enough to think that some virus is going to kill people by the millions in the USA huh? You can’t see that this is the y2k of health scares, a plot?
Well, they can fool ALL the people some of the time...
And in 6 years they can verify if it works or not.
Science moves very very very s l o w l y .
A plot yeah sure..tell that to the italians
Thousands of dead people. Let me ask you.... How many people die each month normally in Italy? Is the current number of deaths in Italy dramatically out of sync with the trend over the last 5 years? Hmmm?
I guarantee you. In the USA and elsewhere, when this hoax is over, there will be no difference in death trends. This thing is a mathematical card trick. In NYC right now, I ‘d bet they are finding a way to find a car accident victim having died from this Covid. It fits a ....NARRATIVE. Wake up.
I wonder why the local Democrat news outlets aren’t running this story?
“That’s supposed to be funny.?
That’s stupid. Wait till you’re sick.”
Lighten up Francis.
about 900,000 die each year in Italy.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/568024/death-rate-in-italy/
How many will die this year?
I heard that in Italy, if you were dying from a heart attack and had a cold they would list you as dying from both. Thus if you tested positive for Corona but had No symptoms and died in your sleep, they would list you as having died from Corona.
Also, Italy has a ton of very old seniors who smoke and Corona loves that.
I expect the FDA to approve hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for Corona very soon as it is already a known drug. The DemocRATS and their Media hate that already as they want to use Corona into the election for their own nefarious purposes.
It is way out of synch in Northern Italy. Something like a ten-fold increase in all deaths this year compared to the same period last year. Most of these are apparently people who died before ever reaching the hospital.
To put that into some kind pf perspective, I had 5 close friends die last year. That death rate would be the same as having 50 of my friends die - all of my close friends and others I don’t see as often.
99% of the italian cases are considered to be death by something in conjunction with COVID.
In france a few years back, 8000 people died of heat stroke. That didn’t lead to half their economy falling apart... in fact few people will even know it ever happened.
In Italy, a few thousand people have died. Do any of you realize that the people there live in conditions that aren’t like here? SHared bathrooms, little effort at sanitation like here, hugs,kisses daily, lack of hygiene... So yeah, if a virus or flu breaks out, a society like that might suffer.
And you believe all these numbers. Nobody has an agenda? I mean, people of the world are so reliable, only the news lies... but Italian news true... yeah, a country of 60 million, but you can extrapolate a few thousand deaths into some global end the world scenario....
Pardon me if I’m a skeptic... I mean, this is FR isn’t it? Have we not watched since 1998 a world of lies and corruption??? But THIS...oh this time surely it’s true eh?? Y2k crap all over again and you folks got a hook in your mouth...
I thought he could barely talk at the end? How did he reach out to an infectious disease specialist and argue with the guy enough to get him to give him the medication?
When my pneumonia was at its worst I was barely coherent in this guy sounds like it was worse than me.
and he said he wouldn’t live by the morning. Who is he to us that we should trust him? he was 51. He may have survived it just fine. Either way
All of a sudden anecdotal is God on this board. I hope this drug works that would be fantastic. A study would take all of a week because so many people have it.
In the meantime give it
but I noticed on the board we are believing what we want to do and not believe in what we don’t want to lately.
Not everything is a vast right or left wing conspiracy. Some things just are.
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