Let's get some baseline CV19 numbers for DU

[McCamy Taylor]

43. Tested/waiting but the test has 40% false negative so flipping a coin would be as good.

I have never had anything like this. Cough nonstop. My chest and abdomen muscles ache! Sometimes I run out of strength to cough. Doing nebulizer treatments at home every 2 hours to keep my oxygen above 95 and then spend 10 minutes in the bathroom hacking up crap and gargling it out. Can not eat anything solid or I choke which sets off another round of coughing so bad I feel that I am going to die. Spent 15 minutes over a toilet attempting to cough up the tiny pieces of noodle that got caught in my right bronchus. Felt like I was trying to bring up a hair ball. Now I am only doing liquids. The family had crawfish ettoufee and collards tonight. I had collard broth and the liquid from the ettoufee.

No sense of smell. Opened a Mexican Coke and all I tasted was sugar water. Can’t smell the wisteria in full bloom. Can’t sleep due to the cough. Sometimes it feels as if there a hedgehog or cockle burrs in my airway trying to drive me crazy.

Can’t talk without coughing.

My throat and upper airways feel like someone has slathered them in menthol flavored Vaseline.

And I make this creepy whistling sound from my left bronchus when I cough as if it is half the diameter it is supposed to be.

I do not smoke I have excellent health and no underlying lung disease. My elderly patients with weak lungs and hearts and neurological issues are toast if they get this no matter what it is.

And I am only at day five. I hear the really bad complications may not set in until day 8 or later. My family cringes every time they hear me go into one of my face turning blue coughing spells. I have seen pertussis patients who did not cough this much. And then I hear that there may be new mutations showing up in Brazil and I think “I may have to do this again?”