“If you think covid isn’t real, ask me”

For those of you who are my Facebook friends, you have already seen this post. But, for those who haven’t seen these words, I wanted to pass on the words of my friend who I have mentioned in a previous post. She is a covid survivor and is currently in a rehab hospital. She is scheduled to be discharged on Wednesday. I believe her survival is a testament to God’s grace.

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“If you think the Coronavirus is not real ask me about developing pneumonia within less than a week of getting it.

About Bryan East’s ER being so busy that when me and Mom went in, they didn’t have time to properly assess us. They left us sitting with no treatment for 3 hours, and then discharged us with steroids. I found out by reading my discharge paperwork that I had pneumonia.

Ask me how it feels to have a hospital essentially send you home to die.

Ask me about going to St.E’s the next day and finding out my Kidneys were failing.

Ask me about within 2 days of being admitted to the hospital being placed on a ventilator.

Ask my family about being called in and told I wouldn’t make it through the day.

Ask them about being pressured to sign a DNR for me by Doctors and Nurses despite my last words on the topic being (to them, my dr, and in a fb post) “heck no I don’t want want a DNR, I want you to battery backup that s***”.

Ask me about waking up from the vent so weak I could bearly roll over.

Ask me about not being able to stand.

Ask me about the ICU being so full, the nurses so overworked and understaffed that you lay in your own urine and diarrhea for close to three hours before they answer your call to use the restroom. This causes a horribly painful yeast infection/ rash on your backside that lasts over a month.

Ask me about a month of my life gone , that I have no memory of, missing my baby sister’s 30th birthday.

Ask me about rehab. Ask me what it’s like to realize I beat covid, I survived, but so many others haven’t.

Ask me what it feels like knowing your family and friends spend weeks not knowing if you would live and the stress it put on them, that it caused your niece and nephew to stress more and have school issues.

Ask me how it feels not knowing if you will EVER regain the functioning in your hand; lost due restraints, my thrashing around in the restraints, COVID, or God knows why.

Don’t come at me with that COVID ain’t real bs. Just because you haven’t seen it doesn’t mean it’s not real. Go check out the overflowing ICU’s. Oh wait you can’t, because they are protecting you from getting a thing you don’t believe exists!!!

It’s not hard, save a life, WEAR AN EFFING MASK!!!!”

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