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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue Jun 23, 2020, 08:08 PM Jun 2020

What they don't tell you about surviving COVID-19

Most people who catch the new coronavirus don’t experience severe symptoms, and some have no symptoms at all. COVID-19 saves its worst for relatively few.

ICU nurse Sherie Antoinette has seen the serious cases first hand.

The lucky ones — if you can call them that — recover, but not in the sense that their lives are back to normal. For some, the damage is permanent. Their organs will never fully heal.

“When they say ’recovered,’ they don’t tell you that that means you may need a lung transplant,” Antoinette wrote in a Twitter post. “Or that you may come back after discharge with a massive heart attack or stroke, because COVID makes your blood thick as hell. Or that you may have to be on oxygen for the rest of your life.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/what-they-dont-tell-you-about-surviving-covid-19/ar-BB15Pumu?li=BBnb7Kz

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What they don't tell you about surviving COVID-19 (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2020 OP
"I can't breathe" unblock Jun 2020 #1
This lung is from a woman who had covid-19. Her damaged lungs had to be Dem bed and tblue37 Jun 2020 #2
I added "Do not intubate. Palliative care only" to my advanced directive. central scrutinizer Jun 2020 #3
what a fucking nightmare. orleans Jun 2020 #4

tblue37

(64,979 posts)
2. This lung is from a woman who had covid-19. Her damaged lungs had to be Dem bed and
Tue Jun 23, 2020, 08:12 PM
Jun 2020

she was given a double lung transplant.

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