INSIGHT Magazine Special Home Edition April 2020 | Page 6

CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) KNOWLEDGE
A RN's
Story
This story was taken from a RN’s Facebook page. She kept a day by day journal about
her COVID19 experience. This will show you why staying home is very important!
Enjoy time at home with your family because if you are taken to the hospital you will
have to go alone.
Here's a day by day testimony from a healthy 31y.o. RN with NO underlying
conditions. This is his covid experience.
COVID19 is not like the flu...at all... How do I know? Because I’ve lived through it to
tell the tale!
Memoirs of a 31 y.o. male with no underlying health conditions.
March 3, 2020 - Bronchitis like illness
started, dry cough, no fever
March 5, 2020 - Low grade fever starts, still
thinking bronchitis
March 6, 2020 - Fever climbs from 99.8 to
102.6 in one hour, thought it was flu and
was now outside the Tamiflu window, stayed
home for symptom management.
March 9, 2020 - Fever of >102 continues,
this isn’t flu, go to urgent care, diagnosed
7
with pneumonia, started on Levaquin.
March 11, 2020 - 3 doses of Levaquin
in, no improvement in symptoms, go to
ER. Admitted, swabbed for COVID19, IV
antibiotics got pneumonia on chest CT.
March 12, 2020 - Get to a room and placed
on supplemental oxygen via nasal cannula,
1 liter per minute (lpm). I’m only able to
achieve 500 on my incentive spirometer, for
perspective-my healthy lungs could hit 4000.
April 2020 – Special Home Edition
INSIGHT