Posted on 04/19/2020 8:49:54 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I recently learned that a friend of mine was hospitalized for COVID-19.
I’ve known Dave Turner for about a decade. He lives in Brooklyn and works on film sets. He’s tall, broad-shouldered, and surfs. He’s 34. So I found it shocking to learn that he was recently released from the ICU in Virginia. I reached out to him and we set up a phone call, which we recorded.
“Hey bud, how ya doin’?” “How’s it going man?”
Before displaying symptoms of the coronavirus in March, Dave was isolating with his girlfriend. He thinks he might have gotten it at the grocery store, but he really doesn’t know where he contracted it. He first started feeling something wasn’t right on March 19th, less than three weeks after the first lab-confirmed case of COVID-19 was recorded in New York.
“So basically on the 19th, I didn’t really get a great night sleep. I was…I like woke up in sweats like multiple times. But New York was still on and off being hot and cold…and you know these buildings they like overcrank the radiator at night…so it was unclear. I didn’t actually feel sick. I just got bad sleep and woke up completely sweating. But I kinda think that was the first symptoms because then the next day, on the 20th, I was feeling a little weird during the day and I thought it because I was tired from the night before. But then by the night time, like right when we went to have dinner…I basically just knew right there that I was sick.”
At first, it was headaches.
“But then a couple days later, that’s when the extreme nausea started. And I know that’s not a symptom that everybody who’s been getting has got but it really, severely attacked my digestive system.”
From March 20th to the 25th, Dave’s headaches and nausea got worse. He couldn’t sleep. His fever climbed to 103 degrees.
“So I was feeling this tightness in my chest which was manageable during the day. But at night, once it got late, like 10 p.m., I knew, like the second 10 p.m. hit, it was going to get worse.”
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Dave was released on March 28th. His girlfriend, who had a dry cough, fever, loss of taste and smell, was never tested for coronavirus despite showing tell-tale symptoms.
Dave was prescribed antibiotics and Hydroxychloroquine – the anti-malaria drug that President Trump has touted as effective in treating COVID-19, though Dave said his doctors didn’t know how effective the experimental treatment would be. It was a crap-shoot. And nearby pharmacies were out of the drug – they had to drive 45 minutes to pick up the prescription.
Regular flu has made me feel like I wanted to die.
You obviously had The Martian Death Flue.
I can’t stand the flu. I will pay the copay, etc. to get the Tamiflu prescription every time.
It surprises me that when he went to the hospital in New York they apparently didn’t so much as take an x-ray.
There is an Obvious Conspiracy in this country against this Life Saving combo of HCQ/Z-Pack/Zinc. It is Abhorrent that so many are willing to Sacrifice the Lives of others because of Politics.
My wife’s family is a family of nurses. Though my wife is not. She’s a Finance and Accounting professional. The Black Sheep of the family.
Anyway, her niece works in a hospital treating many Wuhan Virus patients. A husband and wife doctors treating many virus patients came down with this virus and deteriorated quickly due to what is termed, a high viral load.
They were both given the HCQ/Z-Pack/Zinc combo and Both recovered completely and are back at work. But, this is Anecdotal. A life-saving anecdote.
Thank you, that is one of the funniest columns — of his, or anyone’s — I have ever read.
Just like in Michigan - the Michigan state legislator's husband had to drive to ANOTHER STATE to get the HCQ cocktail - because her own state politicians and Media mouthpieces were trying to kill her...
“Dave was prescribed antibiotics and Hydroxychloroquine”
Dave who lived in NY had to be driven to Virgina in order to get those drugs. Because Coumo banned then in NY for ordinary people. If Dave had stayed in NY then he would likely be another victim murdered by Coumo.
No surprise. China is asshoe.
“Dave who lived in NY had to be driven to Virgina in order to get those drugs.”
“they had to drive 45 minutes to pick up the prescription”
Ah, the open freeways. New York to Virginian in less than an hour.
While Dave and his girlfriend had been isolating in New York, his girlfriend’s mother had suggested they come stay with her in Virginia, in a basement sealed from the rest of the house.
He knowingly spread the virus to other states.
Like, I mean, like that was gnarly. (Glad the guy pulled out of it, though.)
“The only thing I can say is I think it’s astronomically stupid. Astronomically stupid. Especially in New York. I mean, if anyone saw the things I saw in the hospitals there, they would not be doing it.
He suggested nothing that would prevent someone else from getting the virus...And his only real advice is to get out of the New York hospital system if you want to live...
I wonder who wrote the HCQ cocktail prescription...Wouldn't seem anyone at the hospital would write it knowing Whitmer wouldn't allow its sale...Doctors were threatened with jail if they wrote that prescription...
He didn’t go.
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