We now have over 5 million cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. -- but that number is more than just a grim statistic. Each one of those “cases” is a real person, with a unique experience. What 12 people who've been impacted by the virus want you to know:
in the U.S. That number is more than just a grim statistic. Each one of those “cases” is a real person, with a unique experience. And each of their stories has something to teach us – not only about the virus, but also about ourselves.
Weeks later, Irish, their son, and Trent contracted COVID-19. Trent’s condition worsened. “He was put on a ventilator at UF Health Shands Hospital – the same hospital where he'd had his transplants. Doctors there put him into a medically induced coma. Before Trent went under, we talked on FaceTime. For the first time, I broke down and cried in front of him. He reassured me that he was going to be ok. He said, ‘This isn't it. I'll see you later.
Billy eventually recovered from his physical symptoms, but then started feeling the psychological impact of his experience: “I can't maintain a conversation. I get headaches. I have panic attacks. I'm coming apart. This is the part that no one talks about … I can't get away from thinking about COVID-19.” Once his doctor gave him a diagnosis of PTSD, Billy began to see a path forward. “Just acknowledging and recognizing what's going on with me, talking about it, has helped a lot.
He warns others to take the virus seriously: “This virus is a beast like you’ve never seen. It felt like it had me by the throat, and it attacked with a vengeance. It’s the worst thing I’ve seen or experienced in my life. It is not a joke. It never occurred to me I would survive this, and I remember thinking at one point, ‘I don’t want to die like this - alone, isolated, in terrible pain, and scared.
“My family kept coming to visit but they had to stay in a containment room and could only see me through a window. They said I reached for them and cried and it was brutal for us all, but I don’t remember any of that. The first thing I remember is waking up at some point and feeling hungry for some of my mom’s homemade potato soup. That’s when we all knew I had somehow miraculously turned a corner.”COVID-19 symptoms were relatively ‘mild’: “I was sick for 16 days in all, but it wasn’t linear.
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