'If I can get it, anybody can.' This nurse practitioner -- 31 years old, no medical issues, and healthy -- was hospitalized for 8 days after getting COVID-19. She shares her story:
March 31, 2020For the first 31 years of my life, I was blessed with good health. The most significant medical event I’d ever experienced was a tonsil removal when I was a kid.I didn’t think I had the coronavirus at first. The day before my symptoms started, I went to the gym just like I do almost every day – I felt 100% fine. The next day – BOOM! I was hit with an avalanche of symptoms - literally all at once.
By day 8, I was really dehydrated and my fatigue was worsening. Just getting out of bed and taking a few steps into the bathroom would leave me doubled over my sink in exhaustion because I felt like I had just run a marathon. I felt terrible all over, but the cough was the worst part. It got to the point where I felt like someone grabbed me by the throat and chest and I was choking. It was becoming physically impossible to take a full, deep breath, so I went to an urgent care center.
I can’t say for sure that the hydroxychloroquine helped, but once I started taking it, I went 24 hours fever-free – for the first time in 2 weeks. It did raise my liver enzymes, although not to a dangerous point, and it has heart risks, so they did an EKG to check for heart issues every morning. Thankfully I didn’t develop any. They also had me doing daily breathing treatments and using inhalers regularly.
The isolation that comes with COVID-19 is also very challenging. Nobody can be with you, and feeling this sick while being alone is just awful. Even the hospital staff practiced cluster care. That means they’d get everything together they needed to bring to me and do it all at once and then exit the room as quickly as possible.
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