My husband and I both contracted Covid.  He lost taste and smell on Tuesday, and our family doctor put him on meds at home.

He was admitted to McLaren Hospital on Thursday.  I then tested positive on Thursday, and was admitted on Saturday.  We were put in the same room .

On Monday a nurse came in with two IV bags, and I asked what she had.  I was told Remdesivir.  I told her we did not want it, because it would shut down our kidneys, She said, “If you are in this hospital with Covid, this is what you get,” and proceeded to hook us up.

We were both on oxygen and unable to move off the bed.  They gave us a new bag every day for five (5) days.  We seemed to be alright, then two (2) days after the last bag, my husband started to have more breathing problems and he looked swollen. The nurses said they would take him to ICU medicate him, and lay him on his stomach to breathe easier.  They said they would not ventilate him.

The next morning they came down and said he was ventilated. I went to ICU three (3) times and saw him, and I could tell he was failing. I asked the lung doctor for Ivermectin or HCQ, and he told me I was trying to kill my husband.  I felt utterly helpless watching him swell up.  He then suffered a heart attack.  He died 4 days after the heart attack.

You are right, this is very  difficult to talk about.  He was 78 and in good health only took a cholesterol pill.

Please ask me if you need more information.

Lillian M. Abraham