My aunt(age 78) had it and appears to have recovered.
My friend from work’s Mother had it. She died.
My uncle died from Covid yesterday. Entire family caught it (him, wife, both kids). The others recovered with few problems, he ended up on a ventilator. Yesterday, due to lack of brain activity, they turned it off. Funeral’s next week, but only immediate family will be there.
Here’s the odd part. Several days ago it appeared he was much better, and docs thought they might be able to reduce dependence on the machine gradually. Then things went south really fast and it was all over.
On top of this, his only sister (my Mom) has Alzheimer’s and the associated memory issues. We can’t tell her her brother has died because she’d have to relearn it every day. That would be unspeakably cruel, so we’re all trying to go on as though nothing has happened.
Crap, this sucks.
Almost identical to chizzuk’s and Eva_Luna’s relations above. There definitely seems to be a recurring pattern of seeming slow improvement followed by a very rapid and terminal decline.
Very sorry for your loss.
Thank you.
My daughter’s boyfriend’s mother got a positive diagnosis last week.
Very sorry for your loss; and also for the difficulties associated with your sister’s condition.
When I had to make the phone call to tell my uncle (in another country) that my mother, his sister, had died: although he was already part way into dementia, he must have suspected what I was calling about. He refused to let me say anything, but as soon as he heard my voice said more or less ‘no, no, don’t try to talk to me, I’m giving the phone to [his partner]’ and handed the phone off. I left it to his partner to decide if and what to tell him.
My mother-in-law, who has been in a long-term memory care facility for about a month now, tested positive last week. Caught it from another patient who caught it from…who knows. Staff has all tested negative, so it probably came from family visiting another patient. (Nobody is allowed in, but they have an outside patio area for visits.) MIL appears to be asymptomatic, but is being quarantined in her room for a couple weeks. My wife got tested since she has been visiting her mom almost daily. Her test came back negative, yay!
A friend I made in Northern Italy passed away 2 weeks ago from Covid-19. She was in her early 40’s, had a Doctorate in Astrophysics and worked for Eurospace. Hadn’t seen her in years but we were still in contact on Facebook. It’s a tragic loss for me as she was really cool.
My aunt died from COVID last night. She was 100 years old, and had been in the hospital three weeks. A truly wonderful lady whose mind was razor-sharp up to the end.
Her son, who lived with her, also had COVID, and also had been hospitalized.
Very sorry for your losses.
Wish there were something more useful I could say.
My daughter’s direct manager and his wife (who also works in the same grocery department) tested positive Wednesday.
In the same department is a woman who was just diagnosed with lung cancer a few weeks ago and a mother with an immunocompromised infant.
The only way she found out is the manager’s wife texted her. So far nothing heard from upper management.
Last week I would have said “still no.” I knew of people like co-worker’s uncle but no one I would know at the store. Last week I learned the guy that trained me when I was first hired was positive. A good friend reported positive antibodies when he doesn’t recall being sick. Today I helped make funeral arrangements for my 85yo father. He reported being sick last Wednesday and didn’t last a week. My mom was a cancer victim when I was in high school and he passed on her birthday.
I’m so sorry.
Thank you. He was ready to pull the pin on his dialysis multiple times over the past year. Not getting him sick was the main impetus for me wearing a mask when I did not have to. Ironically the only place we think he could have gotten it was at the dialysis center or the ride there. Nobody in the family visited the last two weeks as his senior apartment center was on lockdown for an infected resident. we do not know of him having visitors. He was not afraid of Covid as he went to weddings and graduation parties, stores and appointments. He, in his mind, was ready to check out. (85, COPD stage 4, dialysis, diabetes, buried 2 wives.)
Just a few days ago someone I know ended up in the hospital with Covid. He’s only in his early 30s. I’m very worried because he’s seriously overweight and likely has some additional problems. Most of the people I stay in contact with are geezers like me and we’re all hiding out healthy so far… well no less healthy anyway. I have to go to physical therapy twice a week and that’s the most contact I have with anybody except my wife and son, and now we asked him to wear a mask around us because he’s in a lot more contact with people than we are.
Just heard that someone I’ve known for many years (but also haven’t seen for many years) in in the ICU sedated and ventilated with pneumonia in both lungs. He’s in his early 60s. His church still has in-person services, so he is probably one of many to get it.
My boss was diagnosed yesterday. He sits about 10’ from me and 4-6 (depends on the day) other co-workers in an office that is, maybe, 400 square feet. Apparently, he contracted it at a small gathering 10 days ago. Due to a day off and an outside assignment for a couple of days, I wasn’t around that much but enough to worry me. His symptoms were very mild and he was cleared to return to work the day after tomorrow. The general consensus seems to be “meh” and “let’s keep this quiet” and, with the exception of me, everyone is carrying on as normal. No one else is showing any symptoms. The catch is that we are a training facility and there are currently nearly 100 trainees there every day. (The same ones, not different every day) The boss doesn’t interact with them much but the rest of the staff does. Masks are worn and other precautions are in place - distancing, disinfecting etc. My wife is saying that someone should “drop a dime”. I’m not sure that I disagree. I’m told the county health department is aware but I don’t know to what degree. It could be just that they know someone was sick and were asked when would it be O.K. to go back to work. I suspect that if the knew the full picture, they would shut us down.
All my local family has had the virus (except myself). The worst symptom was that of a mild flu.
Well, about two months later and my brother is reporting not feeling well. We’ll see if it’s the virus again.
A friend of mine has had it. He’s 33 and it kicked his ass big time. He was bedridden for about a week, but he chose to stay at home and not go to the hospital. He is recovering now, but I felt like he pushed it way too far without going to the hospital. He looked like death(I saw him via zoom).
Bad news:
He gave it to his children and to his father-in-law. Kids are sick. Father-in-law…is dying due to co-morbidities.
I had asked him if he is 100% alone at home and he said “we’re just trying our best.”
They are really upset.