Update:
First, sorry it took so long to post this!
I crawled through COVID with no Rx, because my reasoning that it was just a cold/allergies cost me precious time at the beginning of the infection when the antiviral does its best. Mr VOW’s infection was at the beginning of his misery, so he got a prescription for Paxlovid. Within 24 hours, he felt great!
However…five days after he tested positive, four days after he started Paxlovid, the Whammy crawled out of its sarcophagus and pointed a bony finger at Mr VOW.
Mr VOW woke up from his afternoon nap and decided he needed to walk across the hall and visit the bathroom. The top half of his body started in that direction but the bottom half didn’t get the memo. I watched, from the other room, as he crumpled across the hallway and slammed his forehead on the tile floor. By the time I got the recliner footrest down and made it to his side, he had tried to get up and instead fell backwards smashing the back of his head on the tile floor.
My son-in-law was home (fortunately), and he came to help. 911 was called, and all of us stood back to let the professionals deal with a 6-foot, 245 pound man with legs of cooked spaghetti.
Mr VOW spent two days in the hospital, no treatment, just numerous scans to see if anything got busted. By the time he left, he was walking with a walker. His discharge papers said for him to follow up with his own primary care doctor. Discharge diagnosis: COVID.
He has graduated to a cane, and he grows stronger every day. He’s on Home Health Care, which includes home visits weekly with the Health Care Nurse, and home visits twice a week with the Health Care Physical Therapist.
COVID is NOT just like the ordinary flu that comes around every year. Some folks might have sniffles with a cough and a slight headache. Others get clobbered by a load of bricks. Your infection will be whatever the Magic 8 Ball determines for you.
~VOW