pixy0stix , which one did you get? I can't remember. I'm dreading my Moderna booster once the CDC gives the okay for healthcare folks. I felt like I got hit by a freight train.
ETA: My coffee hasn't kicked in yet - I answered my own question. LOL Don't mind me!
I’m also dreading my moderna booster. I had a pretty bad reaction to both of them. 😩😩😩
We were split about 50/50 here with getting knocked on butts by side effects after our second Moderna doses in Jan/Feb so I'm wondering if we'll see the same split once the Moderna booster is okayed for healthcare workers.
My long hauler neighbor was on ECMO at HCMC for 8 weeks. In his 40's.
He came off ECMO 3 weeks ago but is still on a ventilator. But is now alert.
Now they are transferring him to a different hospital that the family described as "experts at getting people off ventilators".
What does that mean?
I’m guessing he’s going to Bethesda. Or whatever Bethesda became once they closed it. Basically a long term acute care hospital
I am envisioning that the rest of him has recovered from covid bit his lungs are so damaged that they now have to figure out how to get them to work again. Is that accurate? How do you get lungs to work, after they haven't worked for a couple months?
I’m guessing he’s going to Bethesda. Or whatever Bethesda became once they closed it. Basically a long term acute care hospital
I am envisioning that the rest of him has recovered from covid bit his lungs are so damaged that they now have to figure out how to get them to work again. Is that accurate? How do you get lungs to work, after they haven't worked for a couple months?
LTACs can do a lot of things (vent care, wound care). They are basically “step down” hospitals. Many people stay months. Often they move to skilled nursing afterward for physical rehab. Hopefully with more time he can wean off the vent, but some people never do.
Post by Wines Not Whines on Oct 19, 2021 17:11:10 GMT -5
My county is almost down to “moderate” transmission levels per CDC criteria. After 7 days at moderate, the mask mandate is lifted. I’m not mentally prepared for no masks indoors. I know I can still wear one (and I expect at least half the people here will wear one for a while). But I feel comfortable in my bubble. I want to stay in my bubble.
I’m guessing he’s going to Bethesda. Or whatever Bethesda became once they closed it. Basically a long term acute care hospital
I am envisioning that the rest of him has recovered from covid bit his lungs are so damaged that they now have to figure out how to get them to work again. Is that accurate? How do you get lungs to work, after they haven't worked for a couple months?
After 12 weeks of being on a vent in a hospital bed he will need an incredible amount of support to recover. He will need PT/OT/SLP therapies for months.
They will work on vent weaning as well. They will slowly wean the trach by doing vent changes and then allowing him to breath on his own with oxygen support as his lungs get stronger. With enough time, hopefully he will be decannulated.
If you remember the helicopter crash from a few years ago, the ex wife kept a blog(We Are Weske) that detailed a lot of the recovery from a long term vent/trach. I'm not sure if it's still up because they ultimately divorced.
My county is almost down to “moderate” transmission levels per CDC criteria. After 7 days at moderate, the mask mandate is lifted. I’m not mentally prepared for no masks indoors. I know I can still wear one (and I expect at least half the people here will wear one for a while). But I feel comfortable in my bubble. I want to stay in my bubble.
It’s jarring. NJ got rid of its mask mandate in May. Now we’re at very high transmission and it’s “recommended” but in my area may 10% of people wear them, regardless of age or vaccination status. My first grocery store trip out after it was lifted I had the only full blown panic attack I’ve ever had in my life because it felt so unsafe. I still generally avoid being anywhere indoors because I’m so uncomfortable with it and nobody else around me believes Covid is real.
My county is almost down to “moderate” transmission levels per CDC criteria. After 7 days at moderate, the mask mandate is lifted. I’m not mentally prepared for no masks indoors. I know I can still wear one (and I expect at least half the people here will wear one for a while). But I feel comfortable in my bubble. I want to stay in my bubble.
It’s jarring. NJ got rid of its mask mandate in May. Now we’re at very high transmission and it’s “recommended” but in my area may 10% of people wear them, regardless of age or vaccination status. My first grocery store trip out after it was lifted I had the only full blown panic attack I’ve ever had in my life because it felt so unsafe. I still generally avoid being anywhere indoors because I’m so uncomfortable with it and nobody else around me believes Covid is real.
I’m guessing he’s going to Bethesda. Or whatever Bethesda became once they closed it. Basically a long term acute care hospital
I am envisioning that the rest of him has recovered from covid bit his lungs are so damaged that they now have to figure out how to get them to work again. Is that accurate? How do you get lungs to work, after they haven't worked for a couple months?
He is probably so deconditioned from his long mechanical vent course that he simply doesn't have the respiratory muscle strength to breathe. It can take a long time to build those muscles back up to the point where he won't need help breathing.
Is there a way to test to see if you have had COVID when fully vaccinated?
My mom has had health issues since around July. First it was breathing and she had some surgery that showed most of her arteries are clogged but not enough for any shunts. She was do with minor coronary disease and put on different medication.
Then that come somewhat better but she was having low grade fevers and gastrointestinal issues. After a short hospitalization she was do with diverticulitis.
So after that got better she was getting dizzy. First she was dx with a sinus infection but after about a month of on/off dizziness I took her to the doctor yesterday and she was dx with vertigo.
Throughout all of this she had been wearing a heart monitor and when she turned it back in last week, there was some issues found and she is seeing a different kind of cardiologist specialist Nov 2.
While at the doctor yesterday, the finger heart rate thing said 99 but when he took her blood pressure, he said it was 44. Sooo that’s a big difference. My sister mentioned it’s something to do with PVC (?) and that makes it hard to accurately take her heart rate. Yesterday she also mentioned to the doctor she still had shortness of breath.
I just don’t buy this is all a coincidence. It HAS to be related, right? She’s a really healthy person (exercise and diet wise, but she is 71) so it’s just so odd to all come at once. The symptoms all could be a part of long haul Covid, but to our knowledge she’s not ever had it. She was fully vaccinated by the end of April.
We aren't really a city agency (but we're heavily funded by the city) but tend to follow what the city is doing, so I expect our testing option to eventually disappear too.
It's going to get ugly with the police unions though. Their leaders are the absolute worst.
she won't ask questions, or write things down when she sees any of these doctors. When she was in the hospital the first time she had no idea what she was having surgery for and specifically said she doesn't want to know. She just recently started letting my sister or I attend appointments with her to her GP, but won't let us go to the specialists, so I only ever get 1/2 the story and even then can't rely on what I'm hearing. When I took her yesterday he told her to take Vicodin for the vertigo, stop something that started with an M for the dizziness and keep taking the flonase. She called me an hour later asking which one to stop and which one to keep taking. It's maddening, to say the least.
Yep! When I dropped her off and looked at the warnings (looking to see if she needed to eat) I saw that it could cause dizziness/nausea. I'm like, um, isn't that what the symptoms already are?? but my sister said she's had to take it when her vertigo got really bad too.
Thank goodness I'm like 100% my dad because those two are a nightmare.
Yep! When I dropped her off and looked at the warnings (looking to see if she needed to eat) I saw that it could cause dizziness/nausea. I'm like, um, isn't that what the symptoms already are?? but my sister said she's had to take it when her vertigo got really bad too.
Thank goodness I'm like 100% my dad because those two are a nightmare.
I have vertigo and when it first happened I went to the hospital. For sure did not get Vicodin but I did get Ativan. And I keep meclizine with me regularly (antivert) because of it. I’ve done a not small amount of research on vertigo because of my situation and I have never heard of Vicodin for vertigo. I’m sorry this is happening and hopefully she will let you go to an appt with her.
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Yep! When I dropped her off and looked at the warnings (looking to see if she needed to eat) I saw that it could cause dizziness/nausea. I'm like, um, isn't that what the symptoms already are?? but my sister said she's had to take it when her vertigo got really bad too.
Thank goodness I'm like 100% my dad because those two are a nightmare.
I have vertigo and when it first happened I went to the hospital. For sure did not get Vicodin but I did get Ativan. And I keep meclizine with me regularly (antivert) because of it. I’ve done a not small amount of research on vertigo because of my situation and I have never heard of Vicodin for vertigo. I’m sorry this is happening and hopefully she will let you go to an appt with her.
Ok so this worried me and I did some digging as well and saw nothing. But I knew my sister said she took the same thing for bad vertigo and they have different doctors so it had to be legit. Until I looked at our texts and realized it was actually Valium and not Vicodin... I just wrote the wrong “V” medicine here. Good thing I’m not a pharmacist!