Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Hang in there, OscarMadison. Immunology is a field of study that's woefully underfunded and underresearched.

It's been almost four years since Gwen's bout with sepsis/pneumonia and she still has unusual side effects and reactions from the disease, the treatment or both. She now has medicines for asthma, for unusual eosinophil spikes, evelated creatinine levels plus strange numbness and tingling in different parts of her skull at different times.

Some days, we can walk a mile or two before she gets winded. Others, she can't make it up the front porch steps. Inhalers and nebulizers are now part of her daily routine.

What's temporary? What's permanent? The internist, the allergist, the nephrologist and pulmonologist are all of the same opinion: there's no evidence of any residual disease but they don't know for sure how much strength and endurance she'll get back. "At least you're alive" is the typical response.

She was a healthy, normal 58 year old one day, and fighting for her life with abnormally low oxygen levels and unable to breathe without assistance 24 hours later.

However, we are very aware that she's on the high risk list for COVID -- and after one 10-day bout with a ventilator we really don't want a repeat performance.

 

This is sickening, we have 25% of India's population yet we currently have 14M COVID cases, and they have had 10M. We are on the rise and they have leveled off since the summer. We are so selfish.

 

@maumann

Glad to read y'all are keeping safe. Hoping for the best for Gwen.

 

Another thing, our priorities are so out of whack the US is a joke to the rest of the world.

So nurses at UCLA are protesting the fact that the past two weeks the UCLA athletic dept. has received 1,492 COVID tests while the frontline health workers at the UCLA Medical Center has received ......ZERO. Football (all sports) is not that important.

49ers are having to leave because of local declaration regarding prohibitions; well good for Santa Clara County, football, even the NFL, is not that important.

 

i used to do that too until my elephantiasis got better i couldn't even sit comfortably

 

Ouch is right. Sorry. Shoulda picked the Dallas Times-Herald. Or the Baltimore News-American . . .

 

It wasn't saying 3 percent will eventually have strokes at some point in their lives, it was saying of the people who are contracting Covid, there is going to be some number who will have strokes during the course of the illness. So we're not speculating decades into the future, they were looking at patients over the course of the weeks while they fought the disease. I suspect some of the stroke numbers are going to overlap with the death numbers which is a fault of how that chart was put together. But the overall point of the chart is saying "you have a 99 percent chance of living" still means that a significant number of people are going to have some serious effects including death.

 

Look at the dynamics of what's going on in the molecular level and you can definitely see why there are these elevated risks. This is not the same as any other virus we've encountered because it doesn't "explode" the host cells and therefore stays in your body rather than gets flushed out. That's a huge game-changer, ask any doctor/medical researcher.

 

Yeah, that graphic about "3 will get strokes" or whatever is pretty much bullshit. It's what happens when you've got layman pouring over pre-prints and coming to overly strong conclusions.

 

If oxygen isn't getting to the brain then a stroke is likely. Or you could just blow a clot and die.

SOmetimes it seems people who've hedged their bets and fucked around with this thing want reassurance that it's really not all that deadly.