Have you or someone you know had a serious case of COVID-19?

[pkspeaker]

If so, experiences?

[robblok]

Not in Thailand but in my home country old friends and acquaintances. 4 in total 1 died, 1 had not recovered after 2 months, he still had to use a walker while he was a runner and tennis player before and 2 others just got well after a some mild symptoms. 

 

In Thailand I know of one person the SG person who first had it took him months to recover to full health. Was a  soccer player this was during the first wave. Young and in shape but took months before he could do what he could do before. 

 

So it varies and long covid is a thing. Too bad that the deniers will only count the one death and not the ones that have a long sickbed as that is counted as minor.

Edited August 6, 2021 by robblok

[steven100]

yes ......  a guy got covid  .....   he's dead.     

[pkspeaker]

i believe i had it in october 2019 here in Thailand, bad respiratory flu, bad for 2 days but lasted 3 weeks 

[robblok]

2 minutes ago, pkspeaker said:

i believe i had it in october 2019 here in Thailand, bad respiratory flu, bad for 2 days but lasted 3 weeks 

Believe you had it but not tested or confirmed ? Then it could have been something else too. Just saying.  I really would hate to be one of the guys with long covid (death is worse of course). 

 

All i hear from the people who have the long version is that it totally wrecks them saps them of all power and it takes a long time to get back to the original level of fitness / mobility.

Edited August 6, 2021 by robblok

[Kwasaki]

1 hour ago, pkspeaker said:

If so, experiences?

My wife knows of one in our village whose been hospital with covid but at home now. 

There are a few others in village in hospital with covid but none have died. 

4 funerals in the village recently but no death from covid. 

My wife's family have all refused vaccination so far they seem more scared of the vaccine than covid. 

 

Only 1 of my sons have had covid after being double jabbed, he was OK after 4 days. 

 

Edited August 6, 2021 by Kwasaki

[Heng]

Extended family... 12 members hospitalised, of those 2 to ICU (but non ventilator... just the standby supplementary oxygen thing.... not sure what that's called).   As for the rest, they said it was just hanging out at the hospital for 2 weeks taking antivirals.    All fully recovered.

[pkspeaker]

2 hours ago, robblok said:

Believe you had it but not tested or confirmed ? Then it could have been something else too. Just saying.  I really would hate to be one of the guys with long covid (death is worse of course). 

 

All i hear from the people who have the long version is that it totally wrecks them saps them of all power and it takes a long time to get back to the original level of fitness / mobility.

can't be sure because that is when it was just starting to get discovered in China-there were no covid-19 tests back then, but I hadn't had a bad flu in a very long time, usually just get colds.. so i'm guessing it was already in circulation in the region if not the entire world

[tonray]

3 neighbors of my GF's mom (same Soi in Bangkok) dead from Covid, two others hospitalized but now recovered.

[bbko]

In November of last year my 61 y/o brother was sick for a few days with fever, cough, fatigue.  I kept telling him to go to the hospital but he didn't want to, saying he was sick earlier in the year and was sure it was covid and there's no way he could catch it again.  A few more day pass and his illness is getting worse to include difficulty breathing.  I finally convince him to go to the hospital and sure enough he's infected with covid.  They put him on oxygen as his oxygen saturation level was in the upper 80's low 90's, after 2 weeks and slight improvement he sign's out Against Medical Advice (AMA), I was stunned.  As he's divorced and I was listed with the hospital as his emergency contact they called me and implored me to convince him to come back.  My brother was being stoic saying he's ok, not going to die, blah blah blah. He didn't want to go back to the hospital and was upset with me for trying to get him to return to the hospital.  We lived in the same city (Phoenix AZ) and I told him to stay home and I'll deliver anything he wants to his front door, again him being stoic he said he'll just pop into his nearby supermarket and be quick about shopping. After about a month his health improved and he's ok now but says his sense of smell seems off.   

[richard_smith237]

Britman had it so did all of his family - None tested thought, but he definitely had it !!! (he reckons !).

 

 

I know quite a few people who’ve had it.... 

Most cases I know of were in 2020 - most were mild cases, just loss of sense of smell etc. 

1 guy (I don’t know but know of) died, he was heavily overweight. 

 

I do know a few people who had serious symptoms - both Mid 40’s, one was in ICU was told he was right on the edge of needing a respirator, he was serious for a few weeks and is now perfectly fit and healthy (no apparent symptoms of long covid). 

 

The other, again mid 40’s, fit and healthy, but had Asthma, had covid-19, was quite unwell but didn’t need hospital. Oddly enough he no longer has Asthma !!! (go figure !).

 

Another, a girl, 21 run, very fit and healthy, a runner - not hospitalised but bed ridden for 10 days (extreme flu like symptoms) 

 

Wife's cousin’s husband in Thailand, was sent to the ‘isolation camp’, after one night there, arranged transfer to a private hospital - he was perfectly fine, no symptoms (he’s a sportsman, has represented Thailand).

 

 

All of the cases I know of are from before the Delta Variant became prevalent. 

 

 

 

 

 

[richard_smith237]

13 minutes ago, bbko said:

...... We lived in the same city (Phoenix AZ) and I told him to stay home and I'll deliver anything he wants to his front door, again him being stoic he said he'll just pop into his nearby supermarket and be quick about shopping. After about a month his health improved and he's ok now but says his sense of smell seems off.   

I assume he’d tested negative by that stage ?

[Harry Om]

I'm normally based in India. I know at least 60 (probably more) that got it in the big wave that went through. Basically, if one person in the family got it, then the whole extended family got it.

 

None died, all have now totally recovered. I must admit I was a bit surprised by this, as a few of them are very overweight and unfit with high blood pressure, but they all made it through. Some said it was like a very bad flu, others just had fever - a real mix of symptoms, even in the same family.

 

Only two were hospitalised, and strangely they were both guys in their 30's that were fitter and younger than most, but they were mainly precautionary hospitalisations and as I said all have now recovered.

 

I think the oldest one I know who had it was my friends Father, and my friend is 60, so his Dad's not young.

 

But as they proudly told me afterwards, "we have Indian immune system, it is used to everything, so no problem".

[ThaiPauly]

Had a mate in the UK whose whole family got it early on, March 2020.

Luckily they all recovered but he told me the symptoms were  excruciating .

 

I had another mate , he and his wife both had it, unfortunately  his wife never made it

[Camelot]

Only one, but that was enough. I lost a retired Thai workmate to Covid in Bangkok last month. He was in his late-60's. I hadn't seen him for several years but it was still a shock.