He went to get the antibody treatment and his oxygen level and blood pressure were both low. They sent him to the hospital for observation on 12/20/21 and gave him fluids and oxygen. The following day he was put on a 5 day course of Remdesivir. Things started looking up, his oxygen levels were getting better and lungs healing, until the morning of 12/24/21 when he had a heart attack.

He was life flighted to a different hospital and underwent a heart catheterization. When he came too after surgery he was on a bi-pap machine. He instantly started panicking telling the doctors he could not breathe. They restrained him because he was trying to take off the mask.

The doctor kept telling us they needed to intubate him right then or he was going to code and didn’t want to give him Ativan because it would slow his breathing. They said they ended up giving it to him,  but he still wouldn’t calm down. We naively gave the ok to intubate him.

Over the next couple of days his lungs were healed of the pneumonia, but he was in full renal failure and on constant dialysis, and had blood clots from his left foot all the way to his belly button. They then told us his left leg needed amputated because it was dying due too clots, but they were afraid he wouldn’t make it through the surgery.

The evening of 12/31, the vascular surgeon called us to inform us they were putting him on comfort care against our wishes and blatantly admitted they needed the ventilator. He unfortunately passed away less than 12 hours later on 1/1/22, the day before he was supposed to be allowed visitors.

He was perfectly healthy, and healing just fine prior to being given the remdesivir, after the remdesivir treatment he declined rapidly.