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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greg K" data-source="post: 8177732" data-attributes="member: 5038">Everyone, please take precautions. Yesterday, I was discharged to go home after having been admitted to the hospital on December 14 with Covid and spending two and a half  weeks in the hospital followed by nearly three weeks in a nursing home.  The week prIor to admittance, it was initially thought that i had an upper respiratory infection,  because I took all the proper precautions and rarely left the house other than to buy food, walk the dog,  or attend medical appointmemts. It was only when I began running a fever while on antibiotics that Covid was suspected and I was given a Covid test. Three days later,  the same day I received my positive test results. I was rushed to the ER with Covid, pneumonia,  and acute respiratory failure with hypoxia.    Several days after admittance, I learned that I had been on death's door and the doctors were unsure they could save me- covid and stress of my body fighting to survive caused other complications on top of the repiratory failure.  Covid is serious.  Thankfully, I am still alive. Many have not been so lucky. Yet, despite being alive. I am  still on meds,  using a walker, and waiting for both temporary in home care and to see a specialist to find out if there is permanent damage to some organs (looking over the diagnoses and a med, I am unsure if I now also have a permanent condition that can lead to an over production of blood platelets).   Please, take precautions and be safe</blockquote>

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