Last update is that he’s doing okay but displaying symptoms consistent with the virus. He’ll be tested tomorrow.
@romanigypsyeyes - is your friend with the toddler in Farmington Hills? There was a story today from the Detroit News that sounds pretty close to what you wrote – young couple with a 22-month-old. No clue as to how the child got infected as the whole family had already been working from home & staying at home since early March.
@calmom yes that’s her/them: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/coronavirus/2020/04/06/farmington-hills-toddler-survives-covid-19-after-106-fever/2940981001/
I keep forgetting about this thread. He continues to improve. This was her update as of last night:
“COVID UPDATE: I feel like garbage with a mild temp and a throat on fire, Al has a slight temp, but otherwise seems his usual self… Luke is sleeping a ton (14 at night and 2-3 hour nap) but his temp was 100.7 at the highest today. Still rotating tylenol/Motrin but so far, so good! Thank you to so many who are praying for us!”
I’m so happy he’s recovering and that it seems like there rest of the family has been more or less spared (especially because they have a 3 or 4 month old!)
Glad they are recovering. My friend’s BIL was finally weaned off that machine that oxygenates his blood, but it was also controlling his temp, and now its rising again.
ECMO machine?
I started having an elevated temperature yesterday, never quite a “fever” which I have learned means 100.4 or higher. My temperature is hovering around 99.5. I usually am at about 98, so I feel a bit warm through the eyes, if you know what I mean.
No cough as of now. I am trying to stay away from my husband who has started sleeping in a spare room. I am using a dedicated bathroom.
Since I am not feeling really lousy it is really hard to have him in charge of the kitchen etc. I don’t think he really got how much I clean up behind him and it is making me nuts to see the dishes piling up in the sink. The coffee being made wrong is the biggest trigger lol.
Oh no, @“Snowball City” ! Take care of yourself!
@Madison85 - yes, and ECMO. Mentioned it upthread. He’s been on it for quite a while, and had some internal bleeding from it. They’ve now got him off of it but he’s still on the vent, and lungs are very damaged. He’s been in ICU for over 3 weeks.
Crossing our fingers for you @“Snowball City”
My oldest lad (in NC) told us yesterday that he likely has it. He doesn’t have a fever, but has a cough and headache, plus feels like his overweight cat is sitting on his chest.
It’s been going on for over a week now. He said he feels so drained that he has stopped working (from home - job he loves) the last two days. He also tells us in his area he can’t be tested unless he has a fever. I don’t know for sure if that’s true - I’m taking his word for it.
He’s been staying home except for helping with one volunteer gig - and that’s how he thinks he was exposed. A man there had been visiting a non-Covid person at the hospital. That man’s kids are now showing symptoms. The man isn’t. (Asymptomatic?) My son’s wife isn’t.
So… we don’t know for sure, but even med school lad who listened in on the call thinks it’s very likely. I find myself hoping he told us now due to feeling better and not wanting to worry us before rather than feeling worse and feeling we should know. I also find myself really reminding myself about the odds for his age (late 20s). FWIW, moms aren’t the only ones who get fear. Dads do too - if our family is normal anyway. We don’t want to be the family who makes the news for being the “unexplained” death. I can’t imagine anyone wants to be “that family.”
I expect to be on CC less for at least a few days as I can’t imagine being able to keep my typing in check knowing how some feel/act.
My guy is likely to be fine, but until likely is certain the mama bear instinct is high.
Oh my, @Creekland. So scary! Hope he is truly feeling better and is on the mend.
Adding an update. My guy says no change from yesterday. Hopefully that’s good. I’ve read that if people are going to go downhill in their second week that it happens quickly.
Still, it’d have been nice to see him get better within a week with totally mild symptoms.
He doesn’t have an update on the kids’ symptoms (kids of the man who likely passed it on to him since he’s the common denominator).
@Creekland, all healing thoughts to your son (and all other covid patients). And a virtual hug to you.
Friend’s husband, a 67 YO doctor treating C-19 patients, was tested after coming home sick but the test was negative! Woo-hoo! My guess is that it was stress and exhaustion. Hopefully a couple of day’s rest will get him back on his feet. So happy he’s been spared so far.
A friend was in a pilot study to test people who haven’t been diagnosed with covid-19 to see if they had antibodies. She didn’t. There was no particular reason to think she would, but she was disappointed. It would be nice to have the immunity without having been sick.
I’m teaching from home, of course, and got an email from a student to tell me her uncle had died of it and It was a “shockwave” through the family. Felt so awful for her.
It’s pretty dire where I am. 17 deaths in my town so far. Several hundred positive, so that means probably many more actually are.
I just don’t go anywhere. If I can’t get it delivered, i do without.
@garland Oh my. SO SORY. and so many losses in a small(?) town too? That’s terrible.
I’m in a northern Jersey suburb–medium sized town (48,000?). It is hard for the rest of the country to imagine what it is like here, and yet I know it’s worse across the river in NYC. 
My dad’s caregiver’s test was negative, thank God. She still feels horrible and has a severe headache. She’s going to see her doctor again.
We have 5 deaths so far 410 diagnosed cases as of this morning. Last I hear, 26 are in ICUs around the state and likely 3-4x as many undiagnosed because they don’t meet stringent testing criteria.
My kids are doing any shopping and errands. They wear masks. I made several dozen so they can have fresh masks and throw them into the wash as soon as they come home. (I may donate the excess to the blood bank and other places that have requested fabric masks. M
Sure hope the MDs develop effective treatments. My lung specialist at UCSF said honestly all the the drugs so far and really not proven to be highly effective against this condition.
One of his lung MD friends recently died in Paris—he was on all the best known therapies, ventilator, anti-malaria, anti-viral and zithromax. At UCSF, they have and entire floor for COVID-19. When he has to get things or drop them off at his office, he goes @10pm, so he’s less likely to encounter many folks. He’s >70, so at risk. He gets lots of calls from all over—he says those from NY are grimmest.
A number of people at my work have tested positive, I’ve lost count how many, but the first person just died. He was only 58 and healthy. We work in a petri dish environment, even though we try to be careful, it’s impossible to not be closely exposed to those you work with. The person I just sat two feet away from and talked to for three hours was recently pulled off duty because someone he was closely exposed to tested positive. I have my fingers crossed that both he and I don’t get sick. Kind of feel like it’s inevitable at this point, so I am not seeing any family or friends, and have contact with as few people as possible.