Yup...delta is lowering the age.
In her mid 20s I believe, juggling friend.
I've talked before about my experience having COVID and being in the hospital for two months. Let me tell you about the two months I've experienced since being discharged.
When I was sent home, I was given a list of medical appointments to make as follow ups. I had physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, and home nursing coming to my apartment every week. I was still seeing doctors and going to the hospital multiple times a week. Some of the departments I was supposed to contact were and are so inundated that appointments I was told to make a week or a month after discharge, were pushed back as far as three months.
While I was intubated for three weeks and immobilized for longer due to my serotonin syndrome and medication withdrawal, I developed a bed sore on my tail bone. While hospitalized it was treated as a minor wound, one that I would just have to redress every few days at home. And then a month went past and suddenly I was in severe pain.
I had developed a serious infection, or rather, discovered one, because according to my mother's accounts of my time intubated, I ran a fever so high they were concerned about organ damage and I had to be put on IV antibiotics. It's possible this infection had been festering for months.
I was in and out of the ER. I had to make appointments with wound care, infectious diseases, surgical consults, medical imaging. I was on antibiotics for three weeks. It's been a month now since I realized there was something wrong and now I'm finally being told that I may need to have surgery to completely open the wound and clear out infected tissue.
This is all on top of still dealing with my post covid symptoms. I still can't walk long distances or for long periods of time without getting out of breath. Before I got sick I used to play Beatsaber for 2 hours at a time for exercise. Now I have to stop for 10 minutes every two songs because my heartrate goes up dangerously high if I play any longer. Also, did you know that severe cases of COVID can cause hair loss for 6-9 months? I was brushing baseball sized clumps of hair out of my head almost daily before I finally cut it.
It's been four months since I got sick and I'm still seeing doctors and hospitals multiple times a week. I've had little time for anything other than my medical issues. Wear a fucking mask.